Cynthia Segato lives and works in Rome, where she was born in 1958. After studying art at the Artistic Lyceum, she graduated in Astronomy but attended the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. While painting, she also developed her interest in printing. She attended numerous printing studios including Calcografia Nazionale, courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and “laboratorio Tracce”. She participated in various exhibitions and painting and printing prizes. In her artworks she often uses an imaginary language, almost fable like, covering figurative themes with a symbolism which includes the concepts of space and time - a continually fluctuating space in which clocks, meridians, clepsydras, masks or archetypal figures are in evidence. Her interest in mathematics and astronomy has also influenced her paintings and therefore, the stories she depicts often take place between cosmic objects, Moebius strips, fantastic geometries and “non-Euclidean” space. Her academic studies have stimulated a pictorial research in Platonic Solids, in the distance and metallic content of stars, in the formation of matter and in star dusts. Her interest in children illustration has extended her research towards interpreting ancient nursery rhymes and writing new ones, some of which were published. As an illustrator and author of fairytales, Cynthia Segato has participated in events and itinerant exhibitions. This experience has given new stimuli and themes to her paintings. On the occasion of her latest personal exhibitions at the Galleria Edarcom Europa, “Bugie Cosmiche” and "Frammenti d'infinito", respectively in 2002 and 2004, she obtained a large success among both critics and public.

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“Bugie cosmiche” successo della mostra Il Tempo, 12 Novembre 2002 - Cynthia Segato)

Le “bugie cosmiche” della Segato (Il Tempo, 3 Novembre 2002 - Cynthia Segato)

In mostra le bugie cosmiche di Pinocchio (Il Giornale, 29 ottobre 2002 - Cynthia Segato)