Raffaella Crispino uses different expressive forms, such as video art, drawing, performance and photography.
Crispino gets inspiration from locations and people she meets in her trips. Indeed, the travel, considered as actually experienced life, is the subject which associates all her works, like a conductor thread.
The artist uses social-anthropological pictures and words: she gains material from reality, she shoots real situations and common people, but her view doesn’t affect her artwork.
Anonymity and individualism in big cities, immigration, respect for diversity and religion are matters Crispino encourages to think about. Another important topic, which is particularly special to the artist, is the Palestinian issue, dealt within the Transit3 project, which was exhibited at MADRE (Naples) and at CCA Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2009).
Recent solo exhibitions include: Tokyo – San Francisco, Super Dakota, Brussels (2016); Kasper Bosmans c/o Raffaella Crispino, an alternate correspondence, 1/9unosunove, Rome, Italy (2015); HISK Open Studio, HISK, Ghent, Belgium (2013); Weather Forecast, L’Ozio, Amsterdam, Holland (2013); 200 Différents Oiseaux, 1/9unosunove, Rome (2011).
Recent group shows include: #15, 1/9unosunove, Rome; Portrait / Landscapes, Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2016; No Fly Zone, NContemporary, London, and exhibited again in Turin, Italy (2016); Words, Words, Words, 252 Cultuurcentrum, Ekeren, Belgium (2016); It takes two to make an accident, HISK, Ghent, Belgium (2015); And no matter that the phone is ringing, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015); Répétition Générale, 1/9unosunove, Rome, Italy (2014); Èdra, Connecting Landscapes, American Academy, Rome (2014); Nessuno e niente scompaia, 1/9unosunove, Rome (2012).
Recent Film and video festivals include: Glocal Tales II, Brescia, Italy (2013) and Ceci n’est pas du Cinema!, Castello di Rivoli and Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turino (2012).
She took part at fairs, such as: NADA, with 1/9unosunove, New York (2016) and Art Brussels, with HISK, Brussels (2014).
In 2013 she won the Prix Médiatine at the Centre Culturel Wolubilis in Brussels; she was finalist at Young Artist Talent Award, BNP Paribas Fortis, Brussels (2013) and at Un’Opera per il Castello, Polo Museale di Napoli (2012).
