Barbara Duran is a contemporary artist, painter, and video maker born in Rome into a cosmopolitan family. Active on the international art scene since the early 1990s, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
Her works are included in private and public collections across Italy, Latin America, the United States, France, Russia, Greece, United Arab Emirates, and other countries.
Rooted in painting as a primary and ancestral medium, her practice unfolds as a process of transformation through the alchemical passage from darkness to light. Duran explores the relationship between matter and spirit through a path of sublimation, revealing a subtle radiance emerging from shadow. In her recent body of work, a long process of technical and conceptual rarefaction has led to a refined synthesis of form, language, and vision, where structure becomes a threshold for perception and meaning.
Alongside her artistic research, she is the founder and artistic director of Studio Urbana, a cultural space for contemporary art established in the heart of Rome in 2007.
- Section Painting
- Venue Palazzo Mora
- Based in Roma & Orvieto, Italy
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