Al Dente Art Gallery is a collective of three friends and artists who share a passion in expressing themselves through Art.
Paolo Maini has been dedicated exclusively to oil painting since 1997. Silvia Molinari uses her watercolours to represent nature at its finest details. Anna Laura has been exploring the world of analog photography through homemade developing.
Three different mediums that when come together, create a perfect balance of expressions, feelings and subject reality.
Silvia Molinari was born in Piacenza in 1979.
Silvia Molinari is a painter. Her diploma is in Decorative Techniques at the Toschi di Parma Art Institute. Her works feature in the permanent collection at the Galleria Salamon Fine Art in Milan and JGO Gallery in Park City, Utah.
" Whether in nature or on a sheet of paper, open spaces have forever drawn my attention, on account of the lifeforms that inhabit them and the confused freedom in which they do so, and for the change they bring. Most of the times, I represent these themes through watercolour paint. "
Silvia Molinari has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Ginza 1 Chome in Tokyo, in New York, Rome, Parma and many other Italian cities.
She leads courses and workshops, collaborating with illustration magazines like Gardenia Magazine and profit and non-profit brands like LIPU Onlus.
Paolo Maini was born in Piacenza in 1968.
After his graduation as a technical surveyor, he moved to Bologna where he attended the Dams, specialising in artistic studies. In the period after, he attended courses by Gazzola in shape and ornamentation at the Art Institute.
After working various jobs, including: graphic designer, entrepreneur, painter, waiter, assistant geologist, lights editor, porter, blacksmith and mason, from 1997 he has been dedicated exclusively to painting.
Paolo Maini has had exhibitions in Italy, Germany, Argentina, England. He likes to alternates his work with long periods of travel. Traveling mainly in Africa and South America. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a sailboat, the Andes mountain range in a Vespa, Ethiopia and Eritrea by hitchhike and arrived in Asia with his motorbike.
He currently lives and works in Piacenza and Portugal.
Anna Laura was born in Piacenza in 1999.
She meets analog photography in Australia. A Country initially chosen as a destination to finish her last year of high school which then turned into a 5 years stay.
During her university studies in film production, Anna Laura started photography and poetry as a hobby, to portray the uniqueness of the artistic community of Brisbane and its surroundings.
The collection of these years, lived between the south east of the Queensland coast and the metropolis of Brisbane, led Anna Laura to set up her first exhibition in the artistic district of Petrie Terrace.
Analog photography is a world that fascinated her right away.
During her university studies in film production, Anna Laura started photography and poetry as a hobby, to portray the uniqueness of the artistic community of Brisbane and its surroundings.
The collection of these years, lived between the south east of the Queensland coast and the metropolis of Brisbane, led Anna Laura to set up her first exhibition in the artistic district of Petrie Terrace.
Analog photography is a world that fascinated her right away.
"In the speed of technology, the slow process of developing an image acts as a counterweight for me. A space of expression where the importance of the single shot reminds me of the uniqueness that surrounds us."
