Bettina Werner

Bettina Werner (born in 1965, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York City. She has created artwork with her colorized salt technique since the early 1980s. Werner became an American citizen in July 2010 and now bears a dual citizenship in the United States and her native Italy.

Life and work

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. She has been living and working in New York City for many years.

Salt's crystallized texture, intrigued Werner and encouraged her to explore different combinations of textures and colors creating a unique and signature artistic language. Her success with salt led Werner to the U.S. in 1989, where she began showing her work at the Marisa Del Re Gallery one year later.[1]

Her salt paintings, sculptures, art installations and functional pieces of artwork, such as her salt sculpture-table, salt sculpture-bed and salt sculpture-backgammon boards are exhibited in museums and galleries extensively throughout Europe, Russia and the United States, including the Whitney Museum, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Detroit Institute of Art, Las Vegas Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, the collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the collection of Martin Margulies in Miami.[1]

In 2002, she founded The Salt Queen Foundation in New York, a non-profit educational institution. Its goals include the celebration of artists who use innovative techniques and unusual materials.[1] The institution is dedicated to the support, conservation, and protection of works of art created with Werner's unique textured and colorized salt technique invented in the 1980s.[2] Furthermore, the foundation aims to promote the education of the value and importance of salt in the history of humanity and as a new art form, as well as to encourage the values utilized by other innovative artists working with different and extraordinary media.[3]

Reviews and features on her work have appeared in The New York Times,[4][5] The Wall Street Journal,[6] New York Post,[7][8] to name a few

Books
  • Bettina Werner: Queen of Salt. Milan, Leonardo Arte, 1999. ISBN 88-7813-322-1

References
  1. Bettina Werner
  2. Bettina Werner
  3. Werner, Bettina The Salt Queen Foundation 2002-2007
  4. Raynor, Vivien (1992-12-06). "ART; A Show by Contemporary Italian Artists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  5. Zimmer, William (1996-10-20). "Honoring Women as Keepers of the Home". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  6. Lin, Sara (2009-06-19). "Palace of the 'Salt Queen'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  7. "'Salt Queen' Bettina Werner rents spacious Broad St. digs". New York Post. 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  8. "Salt Queen's downtown condo relisted with price drop". New York Post. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  • Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (1993): An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Italian Artists, Center for the Arts Magazine
  • Bauzano, Gianluca. (2000) Bettina, The Manhattan Queen of Salt, Audry Magazine
  • Bauzano, Gianluca. (1998) Artisti Italiani a New York, Amica Magazine
  • Turner, Elisa (1991) New Paintings by Bettina Werner, The Miami Herald
  • Citacov, Marta (1996) Bettina Werner, Toccare con mano, L'Uomo Vogue
  • Bonazzoli, Francesca (1996) Cristalli di sale nei colori di Bettina Werner, Corriere della Sera
  • Bonomi, Giorgio (1998) Spazio, colore, superficie nella pittura di Bettina Werner, Art in Umbria
  • Attolico, Eleonora (1998) Americana per abilita' straordinarie, Soprattutto
  • Attolico, Eleonora. (1999) Tibino, la mia musa fedele, L'Espresso
  • Avogadro, Gina.(1990) Andiamo in barca al Museo, Il Giorno
  • Silverman, Irene (2003) Bettina Werner: The Queen of Salt. The East Hampton Star
  • Carlucci, Antonio. (2000) Regina in mostra, L'Espresso Magazine
  • Citacov, Marta. (2003) Se il padrone e' un divo, GQ
  • Seveso,Luisella (2008) Bettina, la Regina del Sale ha conquistato New York, Il Giorno
  • Bonito Oliva, Achille. (1991) Bettina Werner at Marisa del Re Gallery New York, Flash Art Magazine (No.161)
  • Balliana,Maria (1989) Bettina Werner, il sale dell'arte, Italia Oggi
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