Biography
Cassandra Basile was born at Cassano allo Ionio (Calabria, southern Italy) on 1 February 1988.
She graduated in Philosophy and the Shape of Knowledge at the University of Pisa, where she is currently performing her Ph.D. studies in Philosophy.
A self-taught artist, she began her career with tempera painting on plywood; in 2003 her work shifted to oil painting on canvas that she is still using now.
She debuted with tempera paintings that created a strong chromatic impact, in a somewhat Van Gogh impressionist style, but when she began using oil paint, she also changed style and subjects. From landscapes, flowers, stormy seas, the artist turned to representing the unconscious, with dreamlike scenes and surreal imagery. She used strong colours and acid tones to emphasize particularly emotional states of mind, but she has never completely abandoned references to n ature, for example the tree theme, which appears in many paintings of her second phase of work.
She has shown her works in two personal exhibitions, the former titled First work: Nature at Cassano allo Ionio in 2007, the latter titled Dualisms in Pisa in 2014.
In November 2015 Mondadori published the catalogue Nuova Arte with two of her paintings.
In February 2016 she was given a career award (V edition) by Galleria d’Arte Centro Storico of Florence.
In October 2016 she exhibited one of her paintings at the Banca Mediolanum Art Gallery in Padova with the art critics Vittorio Sgarbi and Giorgio Grasso as special guests. In February 2017 she exhibited three of her paintings at the Malzfabrik in Berlin.
