Artistprofile
Adriana Seri
Arezzo, Italy
Twixt two rivers this life has run – rinsing my language on the banks of the Arno and my pen in the silence of the Ganges. But, while my first name has Sanskrit roots, the etymology of my surname is linked to silk, to a people who lived half way between India and China. Thus, having crossed over, writing in my mother-tongue – from the margins of poetry to those of translation – I find myself now, plying the brush, borne on the ebb and flow of the art of writing– shufa– a unifying element from a civilisation which confided deep memory to the song and placed lyrical poetry as its cornerstone.
The road unwinds for me, fugitive and unrelenting, harder than rising into the blue heavens.
…
Hard is the road of Shu!
Harder than rising
Into the blue heavens!
In the West, I turn and look
And breathe long.
Li Po
The Hard Road of Shu
translated from the Italian version
by M. Benedikter, Le Trecento Poesie T’ang
Einaudi, Torino 1961
Main Exhibitions &Prizes
FeiMo – Contemporary Shodo, Fondazione Zeri, Bologna University, Italy 2005
Calligraphy Art Great Exhibition, Chinese Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada 2007
International High School Shodo Exhibition, Osaka City Museum, Japan 2007 - Prize for Elegance and Style
The Fourth World Poetry Contest 2007, haiku translated and published by PRM
Poetry Renaissance Magazine, Tokyo, Japan
Haiku-Collage-Calligraphy Solo Exhibition, Monastery of Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy 2008
International High School Shodo Exhibition, Osaka City Museum, Japan 2008
International High School Shodo Exhibition, Osaka City Museum, Japan 2009 - Silver Medal
The 10th Exhibition of International Calligraphy Art of Ink in America Society, Miami, U.S.A. 2010
Eight Countries Calligraphy Exhibition, Buzan, Korea 2010
The Poetics of Written Space - handwriting and calligraphy - Correr Museum, Venice, Italy 2010
The Dream of the Butterfly - FeiMo workshop and performance - Pecci Museum Prato, Italy, 11-27-2010 in
Michael Lin The Colour is Bright the Beauty is Generous
International Calligraphy Art & Painting Competition and Exhibition, BeiDa University, Beijing, China 2010
Gold medal
Yanyuan Cup, Peking University, Beijing, China 2011
International Calligraphy Art and Culture Exhibition, Seoul, Korea, China
2007-2008-2009-2010-2011-2012
adryser@katamail.com
