IN SHORT

● CAROLINE BERGONZI has proved her multi-facet creativity through a rich and diverse body of work, including styling for fashion magazines, costumes, jewelry, graphic and web design, and a first creativity educational program. She continuously reinvents herself.

● 2007 CAROLINE BERGONZI decided to focus, full time, on fine arts. Painting.

● September 2007 - Exphibition (solo show) at L gallery, NYC.

● October 2007 - Exphibition at the National Art Gallery, NYC.

● May 2008 - Exphibition (solo show) at Arium, NYC.

● March 2009, the artist added a new aspect of her creative expression, with metal sculpture, and has been exploring both cast techniques (wax to bronze) and welding (steel).

● May 2009, she participated to a non profit project, for the foundation of Prince Albert of Monaco. Her art work was sold by Sotheby’s last October.

COMING

● March to May 2010, the Principality will host a solo show of her work, with both paintings and metal sculptures.

● May to October, her “Cycle of the Hero” will be displayed at the Shanghai World Expo.

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CAROLINE BERGONZI grew up under the blue Mediterranean sky, in the Principality of Monaco. After 17 years in this peaceful and international state, she moved to Paris to acquire the tools, she judged necessary to obtain her freedom. In parallel to the challenges of business school and postgraduate studies in fashion management, she was active and blossomed in such creatively diverse environments as video games (IN VIVO) and Parisian Haute Couture (Christian Lacroix).

Some exams and missions later, especially in China and in Italy, she chose New York as her new home, for its human masses, its rhythms, and its mosaic of cultures. The brutal reality of this new urban and mental environment encouraged her in a deeper immersion in empiric philosophy, psychology and spirituality. As the angel of the movie "Wings of Desire", she swapped her cerebral perspective for a true experience of being alive, encountering a full gamut of emotions ranging from fear to love, through loneliness, joy, pain, pleasure and inner peace. She recorded them, expressed them, and shared them through her artwork - paintings, sculptures, portraits.

Enthralled by the human being and in perpetual renewal, CAROLINE BERGONZI draws from both science and spirituality to reach beyond cultures to the deepest layers in all Men and Women. As a symbolist, she seeks truth hidden by illusions, fears, manipulations, masks and games. Inspired by the works of Karl Jung and Joseph Campbell, she thinks in terms of archetypes and her daily inspiration comes from myths, movies, books, dreams and the empiric experience of “fluid” disciplines such as Wing Tsun Kung Fu and tango. To her, life is full of energy and all about rhythm and flux, action and reaction, fusion and transformation.  Her vision builds on the harmony of the contrasts, the link between yin and yang, and the too often forgotten cycle of life : birth, creation, transformation, destruction and rebirth.

CAROLINE BERGONZI shares her time between her Soho laboratory, CREALAB llc, and her studio in Monaco.