The Embassy of Italy, in the framework of “Y-VIET 2013: Year of Italy in Vietnam”, is glad to announce that on Monday, the 1st July at 5pm, at Casa Italia (18, Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi) will
take place the official opening of the exhibition “Heavy Rain”, by the Italian artist Anna Borghi. The exhibition will be opened to the public until 14th July 2013.
Anna Borghi was born in Italy in 1980. She graduated in 2004 in Painting and in 2010 in Cultural Heritage, both degrees obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, in Milan.
She started to work with galleries in 2003 while she was still student. She won national awards and now her artworks can be found in remarkable private international collections.
She started to work with children in 2005. Two years later she moved to Spain, then in 2010 to Vietnam. Here she met children of “Pho Cap” School, a small school for street children
located in HCMC. This school helps disadvantaged children, and it was opened in 2001 by three Vietnamese teachers with the support of the local authorities.
Since 2011 Anna has been teaching art in this school. She teaches with a strong method, in which students start a journey not only towards the masterpieces of international
artists, but also exploring themselves. This experience created a massive change in Anna’s life and began a strong interaction between her artworks and the children’s works.
The exhibition “Heavy Rain” shows the results of these two years of works, in which Anna started a dialogue between her art and the figures and the signs created by the
children.
For information, please contact:
Embassy of Italy, Ms. Hoa 04.38256256 (ext. 116); yviet.hanoi@esteri.it.
On-line: facebook Y-Viet YV; www.ambhanoi.esteri.it
Text by C.A. Xuan Mai Ardia
Exhibition Anna Borghi – Brochure
Critic’s Review – Heavy Rain
