About


Ornella Gallo Di Fortuna (born 1982) is an Italo-Uruguayan artist and designer currently working internationally.


Having made art throughout early childhood and achieved recognition in the field over the following two decades. During those years, Ornella maintained her connection to art through a number of collaborations and exhibitions.

The art and design studio works across all scales and pursues a material practice that blends art, design, architecture and fashion.

With material and color as a departure point, the works explore the tensions between figuration and abstraction along with investigating space, volume, and texture beyond the limitations of the human body through sculpture garments, reliefs, assemblage, paintings, and collages.

During the processes of creation, she explores different paint mediums, materials, and ways of manipulation of any element (pigments, mosaics, metals, fabrics, yarns, organic fibers) transforming those elements in sculptures or artwork’s and make them look like other materials and constructing new processes for the application of paints, creating a collaboration between her own desires and those of the materials and considering painting and drawing to be an essential part of her creative process.

Relentlessly curious about and inspired by the diversity and complexity of all matter and strive to understand how to produce new material systems through technological and material innovation without leaving behind the traditional techniques. Central to this process of investigation is the interest in craft in both physical and digital mediums. Craftsmanship occurs at the intersection between material knowledge and tool expertise.

Over the past 25 years, she has been designing and creating projects for the interior, public, and yacht industry.

The current exploration and art commissions both public and private are focus on the design and management of projects of large murals exploring the possibilities of Murano glass, fresco, and fabrics embroidered into walls or steel that resembles fabric textures, large etching glass, metal, and concrete embroidery.


Highlights

 

Date Location Exhibition
February - March 2022 London, United Kingdom "Solid Reflections" at The Hanover Gallery in Mayfair
2019 – 2020 London, United Kingdom Creating a collection of bespoke artworks for a superyacht
2018 London, United Kingdom Private commission of 12 artworks for a collector London, United Kingdom.
September 2017 Punta del Este, Uruguay Awarded for  design project a public Sculpture at the Artigas Square “Las Olas De La Brava”
May 2017 Barcelona, Spain Design and development of murals of “La Cremosa Barcelona”
February 2016 London, United Kingdom Solo Exhibition – Shunga & Fashion, De Parma Gallery, 247 Fulham Road
January – December 2016 Florence, Italy Fresco Art & Restorations & Private Lessons, Bottega Massimo Calossi Florence
2016 London, United Kingdom Project of private commission for large murals of mosaics
May – December 2015 Barcelona, Spain Solo Exhibition – Fashion & Art at Styledifortuna studio
May – June 2014 London, United Kingdom Solo Exhibition “El Paseo” – Fashion & Art, De Parma Gallery, 247 Fulham Road
February 2012 Madrid, Spain Presentation Exhibition on Private Showroom Fashion & Art Atelier Madrid
July – December 2011 Madrid, Spain Presentation Exhibition on Private Showroom Fashion & Art Atelier Madrid
August 2010 Punta del Este, Uruguay Conrad Casino Resort, Pasarela Punta Del Este
May 2009 Madrid, Spain Emocion Transitoria Project School Art N2 2, Madrid
December 2009 A Coruña, Spain Singular Stop Festival Exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Union Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain
September 2008 Madrid, Spain Exhibition of Fashion Designs, Showroom Ego de Cibeles, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid
July 2008 London, United Kingdom Solo Exhibition – Fashion & Art, The Priory Lane, London
May 2008 Piriapolis, Uruguay Fashion & Photography solo Exhibition, Castillo De Piria, Piriapolis
March 2006 Madrid, Spain Exhibition of Fashion Artworks. Awarded “Young Fashion Designer” for Nobeza Gaucha collection at Young Designers of Madrid
July – September 2005 Madrid, Spain Collective Exhibition of School Art N2 (Vestida de Emociones), Museo del Traje, Madrid
May – June 2004 Madrid, Spain Collective Exhibition “Disueño” Artistic Designs and dresses inspired by Salvador Dali, Museo del Traje, Madrid
August 2003 Madrid, Spain Collective Exhibition – Personalidad de una Japonesa, Aranjuez University
February 2001 Punta del Este, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Galeria del Puerto, Punta del Este
September  2001 Montevideo, Uruguay Collective Exhibition, 49 Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
July 2000 Montevideo, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Ateneo de Montevideo
November 2000 Mercedes, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Casa de la Cultura Mercedes
December 2000 Dolores, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Casa de La Cutura Dolores
July 1999 Montevideo, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Palacio Santos, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montevideo
March – July 1999 Montevideo, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Pronto Credito Offices, Montevideo
August 1999 Dolores, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Secondary School, Dr Roberto Taruselli, Dolores
November 1999 Montevideo, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Soriano Club, Montevideo
October 1999 Montevideo, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Galleria del Puerto, Montevideo
December 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Colective Exibition Dolores Young Artists, Casa de la Cultura, Dolores
November 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Collective Annual Exhibition of the Atelier of Arts, College Santa Teresa De Jesus, Dolores
November 1998 Mercedes, Uruguay Soriano Painters Collective Exhibition, Casa de la Cultura, Mercedes
September 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Awarded Young Artist Revelation, Premios Lockhart Soriano
March 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Solo Exhibition, Artisan Rotary Club, Italian Society XX, Dolores
January 1997 – December 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Atelier of painting of the College Santa Teresa De Jesus, Dolores
September 1998 Dolores, Uruguay Awarded Young Artist Revelation, Premios Lockhart Soriano
January 1995 – December 1997 Dolores, Uruguay Private Art Lessons, Atelier of Julio Asarian (Predecessor of Joaquin Torres Garcia)


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