Mario Bernardi, in the introductory chapters of the catalogue written for the Exhibition “Contemporary Artists for the Humanism in the Research", writes about Laura Erler's works:
"Her works, created almost exclusively using mixed technique on paper,
is an astonishing embrace with a pebbly nature and with water,
elements that stand as evidences of a show that has crossed the millenia
and is enduring today .
Her figures in some way materialize the charmed dream of the silence,
are definitely many stages - sometimes monumental, sometimes small -
where the inert matter extends itself through the refractions the artist,
with wisdom, creates.
By admiring these stones the spectator, at first timidly, then
in perfect harmony with the author, enters in a oniric world
full of suggestions and without a shadow of doubt, a world that evidences
the authenticity of the artistic strenght of the painter.
The Only, in my opinion, to give us an emotion comparable to the
one that sculptors give us when they create an opus with woods collected
along the beach or on the rivers"
~ CURRICULUM
Laura Erler
I live and work in Oderzo, Italy, an historical town of ancient origins, not far from Venice.
I studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where I took her degree in 1975.
Since 1972 I have been teaching History of Art and Painting in high school, where I also hold classes in Linocut and engraving.
In 1976 I worked in Rome, where I gained experience as an art printer with two of the most important printers in Italy (Antonio Sannino and Gaspare Barrovecchio of National Calchography in Rome).
Exhibitions I participated:
- Group show Young Artists "Circolo Culturale 4 Cantoni", Oderzo
- Group show at "Circolo Pisacane", Treviso
- Group show at "N°106", Conegliano
- Exhibition at "La Meridiana" Gallery , Marostica
- Exhibition titled "Immagini" at "Palazzo di Porcia e Brugnera", Oderzo
- Exhibition at Restaurant "Il Gabbiano", Levada di Ponte di Piave
- First and Second Manifestation "Oderzo Porte Aperte"
- Exhibition with Silvano Meneghel "Elogio alla Materia Inerte" at "Palazzo di Porcia e Brugnera", Oderzo, 2001
- Exhibition "Cuore di Sasso" with Silvano Meneghel and Vittorio Sedini at the S. Francesco Cloister, Treviso, 2002
- Group show at the "Agora Gallery", New York City, 2002
- Group show at the "Cantiere Creativo" Gallery , Bassano Del Grappa
- Group show with the Artist of Treviso Association at "Loggia Dei Cavalieri", Treviso, 2002
- Exhibition at the "Cantiere Creativo" Gallery , Bassano Del Grappa, December 2002
- Exhibition "Profondo Blu" at "Palazzo di Porcia e Brugnera", Oderzo, March 2003
- Group show "I quattro Elementi" at the Estense Castle in Ferrara, October 2003
- Partecipation at the "Gambino" Prize, Villa Fianchetti in Preganziol (Treviso), 2003
- Group show "Artisti italiani per l'Umanesimo nella ricerca" at "Palazzo Foscolo", Oderzo, 2004
- Group show of the Artists of Treviso at Villa Celsi in Istrana (Treviso), 2005
- "International Biennial of Contemporary Art"s in Firenze: I was prized with the "Lorenzo Il Magnifico"
award for Graphics, 2005
- International Group show, part of the "Horizon" Exhibition at Villa Fernanda in Artimino (Prato), 2006
- "Arte e Antiquariato" Exhibition at the Pordenone Fair, with "La Saletta" Gallery sited in Lignano Sabbiadoro, 2007
- Solo exhibition at "La Saletta Art Gallery", Lignano Sabbiadoro 2007
- Group exhibition at "Gora Gallery", Montréal 2007
- Group exhibition at international show "Istants" at "Dolmabahce Art Gallery", Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul 2008
- Solo exhibition at "Domenico Cattai & Co. Art Studio", Treviso 2009
- Partecipation at "Bozen Kunstart 2009" in Bolzano with Gaudì Art Gallery, Madrid
- Partecipation at Art Fair of Longarone 2009
- Laura Erler has been cited on the catalogue of exhibition “Inganni ad arte” Wonders of trompe d’oeil from antique to contemporary”at Strozzi’s Palace in Florence 2009-2010
- Group exhibition at Emmedi Art gallery in Milan 2010
- Group exhibition at Art Time Gallery in Udine 2010
- Group exhibition at Web Art gallery in Treviso 2010.