Angela Bello develops her artistic identity through an emotional-empathetic observation that reveals the place in the non-place, giving shape to absence with a corroded painting, and exploring a metatemporal dimension in which remote memory and continuous future are always rediscovered as current.

Originally Martina Franca, after graduating from high school as a surveyor, cultivated her passion for drawing as an amateur, dedicating herself professionally to technical work. After moving to Florence, she began to explore hyperrealist techniques to rework her experiences and emotions through art, completing her training at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2025 and dedicating herself increasingly to her artistic production.

The investigation of her artistic identity finds space in an emotional search for empty and liminal spaces, where she emphasizes presence in absence and denial through a corroded and ruined painting. Her painting, in fact, is constituted by an alternation of flow of consciousness and control, light and shadow, compositional awareness and material disintegration. The dimension she portrays is suspended in a metatemporal temporality, where present, past, and future merge into an ever -present time.

The artist has participated in exhibitions and artist residencies, where she has engaged in dialogue and expressed herself in a variety of contexts. In 2025, she won the Critics’ Award at the fifteenth edition of the Festival dell’Immagine in Martina Franca (Taranto).

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

2025

• Critics’ Award, Festival of the Image, Martina Franca (TA)
• LET’S NOT LOSE SIGHT OF EACH OTHER, Palazzo
  Rosso, Bentivoglio (BO)
• APPARITIONS/DISAPPEARANCES, Atelier MINERVA, Academy of
  Fine Arts of Florence, Florence

2024

• COMMON WATER, FRABBONI HOUSE, San Pietro in Casale (BO)

2023

• XL PREMIOFIRENZE, visual arts section – curated by the “Centro Culturale Firenze-Europa Mario Conti” with the patronage of the Tuscany Region
• PAPER SUNDAYS, Marucelliana Library, Florence
• TO THE TEST OF THE BODY, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Florence

2022

• DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES FROM THE HUMAN BODY, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Florence

2019

• OVER THE REALMS IV, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Warehouse 5, Luigi
  Bellini Museum, Florence

2018

• 2nd place in the visual arts section, 3rd edition of the GIOVANNI BOVIO NATIONAL AWARD, Palazzo San Giorgio, Trani (BT)

2013

• PAESTUM ART. Exhibition/Competition, Archaeological Area of ​​Paestum (SA)
• GATEWAY TO THE EAST IN ART. Painting Exhibition/Competition, Colonnade Hall, Provincial Palace, Bari