Her School background: Brera Art Academy (Milan), Literature and Philosophy Faculty at Milan University, DAMS (Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts) at Bologna University.
She began photographing since she was a child and in 1969 at the age of fourteen she won an award from UNESCO for the Parthenon Prize Photo of the World Family.
She is specialized in contemporary architecture photography and in this sector her main activity has been in New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Tokyo, London, Munich, Berlin, Milan, Bilbao, Kuala Lumpur,...
Her work has explored the poetics of such masters of the contemporary architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, Yeoh Ming Pei, Frank Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Carlo Scarpa, Kenzo Tange, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind,...
Her approach to architecture moves toward new dimensions and interpretations of the buildings portrayed, transfiguring space and time.
In 1984, during the exhibition Images et imaginaires d'architecture: dessin, peinture, photographie, arts graphiques, théatre, cinéma en Europe aux XIXe et XXe siécle, held at the Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, she has been acclaimed as one of the twenty eminent praticiens in Europe in this field.
Since 1993 has been involved in the field of video installations and video direction: in 1996 has directed a video portrait of the artist Bruno Munari (Mu as Mu-nari) and in 1999 a video-portrait of the architect and designer Vico Magistretti (Mastery as Magistretti).
In 1995 her photo portfolio about the building of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York by Marcel Breuer has been chosen to create - for the 30th anniversary of the museum - a complex production of art-merchandising (6 items: pin, postcard, poster, telephone card, notecards box, silk scarf) by this prestigious Art Institution.
In 1999 the National Gallery of Art in Washington acquired for the permanent collection part of the portfolio dedicated to the East Building of the Museum designed by Ieoh Ming Pei.
In 2002 a photo of the CityCorp (1980) by the artist has been selected for the important exhibition New York Observed. The Mythology of the City at the University of Michigan Museum of Art with the works of such influential masters as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Karl Strauss, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Barbara Morgan, Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus,…
Her photos have been in important auctions in United States and Europe and are in private and public collections in Europe, United States, China and Japan.
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