Fausta Squatriti Studio
Since the early 1960s, Fausta Squatriti’s research has been divided between the visual arts and writing.
She has exhibited her work in Italy and more frequently abroad, where she was also intensively engaged as a publisher of graphic art and multiplesbetween 1964 and 1986.
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She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Venice and Milan, and was a visiting professor at the universities of Manoa (Hawaii) and Mons. She has lectured on her work and other subjects in Italy, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Paris. In 1986 she was the curator of Art and Science: Colour at the Venice Biennale, with essays published in the catalogue.
Since 1977 Squatriti’s poetry collections have been published by Il Laboratorio delle Arti, Vanni Scheiwiller, Manni, Book, Testuale, Tracce, Il Laboratorio di Nola. Furthermore, and also in several journals. In 1992, together with Gaetano Delli Santi, she founded the magazine Kiliagono (All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro), published until 1995. Her most recent poetry collection is Vietato entrare [Forbidden to Enter], La Vita Felice, 2013. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew and published in Israel. In 2012, an anthology of poetry in English, with an essay by Matteo Brera, was published in the international magazine Incontri.
In 1988 she was awarded the Premio Eugenio Montale for unpublished work, and in 2009 the poetry prize Scrivere donna.
Squatriti also published the novels La villeggiatura, ovvero breviario sentimentale (Terre del fuoco, 1994), Crampi (Edizioni Abramo, 2006), and La Cana (Puntoacapo editrice, 2015). In 2015 Pollice verso. Storia di un arazzo [Thumbs Down: History of a Tapestry], edited by Fausta Squatriti (contributions from various authors), has also been published by Nardini.
At the beginning of 2017 she published a new poetry collection Olio Santo (2010-2016) by New Press Edizioni.
In 1997 she founded Il Teatro dell’autore in scena with Francesco Leonetti, making her debut appearance at the Fondazione Mudima, Milan. Further appearances were at Ricercare, Reggio Emilia; at the Festival della parola (Venice), and as part of the theatre season Teatri ’90 (Rotonda della Besana, Milan). In 2002 she designed the stage image for The stillest, with choreography by Eric Senen, performed at the Mains d’oeuvre Theatre in Paris. In 2011, at the Fondazione Calderara, Vacciago, Alberto Lombardo performed her monologue Istruzioni per l’uso, and in 2012 Squatriti edited the texts and created the props for Ora d’aria, a performance presented by the company Teatro delle Selve on Orta lake.