ANTONELLA IURILLI DUHAMEL

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“This is what I believe:
That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.
That I must have the courage to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.”

Antonella Iurilli Duhamel born in 1954 in Belvedere Marittimo, a little sea village on northern Calabria coast built upon the highest knoll for protection.

Her education has been influenced by several existencial experiences, by the many different places where she has lived and from her mixed family roots.

She is a sculptor as well a painter and a psycologist, with an university background in linguistic, antropology and psycology.

Her art is mainly focused on that themes that she always cared as an artist as well as a psycologist and as woman : the identification of the male and female sexual roles, and the relationship of the modern man with emotions, life and nature .

She is member of the Italian Society for Fine arts in Verona, of the Quebecois society for Fine Arts, Canada, and of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis of New York . She is very appreciated for her sculpted portraits and her works are present in private collections in Italy, Canada and United States.