Vania Elettra Tam

The irony and the seduction of her screenplays are overlapped with a veiled social critique but always with light, amused and surreal eyes. The spectator is invited to play with units of time, places and spaces, with the awareness that nothing is as it seems. Lately, after a solo show in which the contaminations present in her modus operandi have been highlighted, playing also with his surname, begins "ConTAMinAzione", a pictorial cycle dedicated to the great masters of the past. After studying at NABA and at the School of Advertising Graphics at Castello Sforzesco in Milan, she worked as a designer in the Como textile sector, later abandoned to devote herself exclusively to art. Her choice was soon awarded by the City of Como, which in 2005 organized the first personal exhibition at Chiostrino di Sant'Eufemia. Numerous exhibitions were held later in Art Galleries and in institutional locations, among the most important should be mentioned her participation in the 54th Venice Biennale - Widespread Italian Pavilion of Sgarbi at Palazzo Te in Mantova. Also in 2011 she was invited by Edoardo di Mauro to the highly select group "Another story: Italian art from the Eighties to the Zero" at San Carpoforo in Milan. The following year her works fly oversea to Cuba at the "Perturbaciones" exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana. In 2013 Ferdinando Creta invites her as an exponent of the best female art in "Iside Contemporanea" at the Arcos Museum in Benevento. In 2016 Franca Marri takes care of her personal exibition "Kanon Regole Ferree" in Trieste, an exhibition presented by the internationally renowned critic Edward Lucie-Smith. In 2016 the Šibenik City Museum dedicates her a personal exibition as special guest of the International Children's Festival in Croatia. In 2017 at Palazzo della Ragione the City of Mantua realizes her anthology «conTAMinAzione» curated by Carlo Micheli. She participates to the 2016 and 2017 editions of Wopart - Works on Paper Art Fair in Lugano for Frattura Scomposta. In 2019 "ConTAMinAzione" is presented at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa by Virginia Monteverde. Again by Monteverde, she takes part in the “Leonardesca” exhibition in the prestigious locations of the Sant’Agostino Museum in Genoa and then of the Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes of Szczecin in Poland. She created the standard for the “Palio of Montagnana” 2019, exhibited in Castel San Zeno. Her works are part of the collection of the Parisi Valle Museum in Maccagno (VA), of the Museum of Palazzo Te in Mantua, of the National Directorate of the CGIL in Rome and of the CAB Art Gallery collection in Amman, Jordan. She lives and works in Milan.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

 - “Insolita Mente” by Carlo Micheli – Portopiccolo Art Gallery – Trieste - IT

2019

- “La donna moltiplicata” with Evita Andùjar by Carlo Micheli – Galleria Francesco Zanuso – Milano - IT
- “Palio in Arte – Vania Elettra Tam” by Andrea Malaman – Castel San Zeno – Montagnana (Padova) - IT
- “ConTAMinAzione - Vania Elettra Tam” by Virginia Monteverde - Spazio46 – Palazzo Ducale – Genova - IT

2018

- "Aspirazioni al cubo" by Carlo Micheli - Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea - Ostuni IT

2017

- "ConTAMinAzione" by Carlo Micheli - Palazzo della Ragione – Mantova IT

- "Living Nature" MACRO (Museum Art Contemporary Roma) Testaccio – Roma IT

2016

- “Il giro del mondo in 30 m²” Nardi Arte – Roma IT

- “Cartografie” by Frattura Scomposta Art Magazine - WopArt Fair - Lugano CH

- “OKO 10” by Iva Körbler - Šibenik City Museum – Croatia HG

- “Origami e Pregiudizio” Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea – Ostuni IT

- “Kanon – Regole ferre” Woland Art Club – Portopiccolo Trieste - IT

2015

- “Filoillogica” Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea - Ostuni IT

2014

- “Doppia mentiS” Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea – Ostuni IT

- “Candy Crash Saga Sugar” Vania Elettra Tam & Marco Minotti - Rossocontemporaneo – Taranto IT
2012

- “Cielo, cielo... mi manca” Art For Interior Gallery – Milan IT

- “Follie domestiche” Galleria Quadrature Formedarte - Lamezia Terme (Catanzaro) IT
2011

- “V&roTic Room and V&roTic Sound” Picture Gallery Blarasin - Macerata IT
2010

- “Cronaca Rosa” treated by Alessandra Redaelli - Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Cronaca Rosa” Studio Zero - IneditArt – Rimini IT

- “Lighting conditions” Council Chamber of Celle Ligure town (Savona) IT

- “Riso Amaro: dal neorealismo al neoumorismo” Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea - Ostuni IT

- “Desperate Hosewives?” Globalart Gallery - Noicattaro (Bari) IT

2009

- “Desperate Housewives” Revel Space - Milan IT

2008

- “Un giorno di ordinaria pulizia” treated by Igor Zanti - Wannabee Gallery - Milan IT

2007

- “Luci.A” Sergio Valmaggi Cultural Center – S.S.Giovanni – Milan IT

2005

- “ArteFatta” treated by Carlo Ghielmetti - S. Eufemia Cloister - Como IT

2004

- “I recomposed myself” PiziArte gallery – Teramo

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2020

- “Figurabilia” 8 artiste italiane - Spazio Menomale e Odeon Gallery – ArteFiera collateral - Bologna - IT

- “60X60X60” by Arianna Beretta – CircoloQuadro – Milano - IT

2019

- “Ex Voto” by Angelo Crespi with Fondazione Maimeri – Marino Marini Museum – Firenze - IT

- “Carousel” – atelier ToBeKind – Milano – IT

- “Natale con le Palle” E. Santambrogio project – Krudo – Como - IT

- “Art Fire Zagreb” with Gall'Art Roma – Zagreb - HR

- “GrandArt Faire” with Gall'Art Roma – The Mall – Milano - IT

- “5° CAB International Symposium” – CAB (CairoAmmanBank) Art Gallery – Amman – JOR

- “Premio Casciaro” 2019 – selected artists of the IV edition – Vignacastrisi - Ortelle (Lecce) - IT

- “Leonardesca” by Virginia Monteverde - Sant’Agostino Museum - Genoa – IT

- “Leonardesca” by Virginia Monteverde – Castello dei Duchi di Pomerania – Stettino – PL

2018

- "Biennale d'Arte Salerno" Fruscione Palace – Salerno IT

- “15x15/20x20 | Collezione Punto sull'Arte 2018” Punto Sull’Arte Internationale Contemporary Art – Varese - IT

- "Leonardo da Vinci dall'Antico al Moderno" by Gian Ruggero Manzoni - Scuderie del Castello di Vigevano - IT

- “Mondi Fantastici” by Andrea Guastella and Sergio Curtacci - Palazzo Zacco - Ragusa - IT

- “Oasi” Enpleinair by Elena Privitera - Arte Contemporanea - Chiesa di Sant' Agostino – Pinerolo (Torino) - IT

2017

- “Wopart - Works on Paper Art Fair” by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag - Lugano - CH

- "Artisti, lavoro: verso la Carta dei Diritti" CGIL collection - La Cattedrale (ex Breda) – Pistoia IT

- "Madre terra/femminile/mediterraneo" Castel Dell'Ovo – Napoli - IT

2016

- “Wopart - Works on Paper Art Fair” by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag - Lugano - CH

- "Biennale d'Arte Salerno" Fruscione Palace – Salerno IT

- "C&F" by Massimo Kaufmann and Ivano Sossella - Laltalena Space – Milan IT

- “Artists 4 Rhino” Sforzerco Castle – Vigevano IT

- “Da qualche parte nel mondo - Book Art Project” Baglioni Hotel – London UK

2015

- “Da qualche parte nel mondo - Book Art Project” Cerere Space – Rome IT

- "Paratissima 11" Contemporary Art Fire - Frattura Scomposta Art Mag – Turin IT

- "Cibi Condimentum Esse Famem" Sabrina Raffaghello Contemporary Art – Milan IT

- "Vado a vivere in città" Circolo Quadro – Milan IT

- "Artour-O - Must" Medici Riccardi Palace – Florence IT

- "invito a prendere un caffè" Numen Arti Contemporanee – Naples IT

2014

- “Femminile Plurale” treated by Alessandra Redaelli – Biffi Arte Piacenza e Pirola Palace - Gorgonzola (Milan) IT

- “Aliens. Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo” by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag – Ariosto House – Ferrara IT

- "Iside Contemporanea" treated by Ferdinando Creta - Museo Arcos – Benevento IT

- “Divieto Di Affissione” Numen Arti Contemporanee – Naples IT

 - “13x18” La Casa di Schiele – Benevento IT

- “Now. Lo sguardo Pow sul contemporaneo” Galleria Pow – Turin IT

2013

- "Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo" by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag – Vernazza Palace / E-lite studiogallery
 Lecce IT

- "Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo" by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag – Pirola Palace - Gorgonzola (Milan) IT

- "Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo" by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag - San Giorgio Gallery – Bologna IT

- "Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo" by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag - Marsiglione Art Galley – Como IT

- “Contemporary art for a cultural awakening" Municipal Art Gallery - Capo D'Orlando (Messina) IT

- "Over dark there is color " Streamcolors House – Milan IT

- "Accrochage" Spazio Un1co – Bologna IT

- "Scritto sul corpo" E-lite studiogallery – Lecce IT

- "ABC "A" Asile "B" Bianco C Cuore Creativo" Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea - Purgatorio Space – Ostuni IT

- "Se una notte d'estate un viaggiatore" Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

2012

- “54° Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione Italia” treated by Vittorio Sgarbi - Palazzo dei Congressi - Sala Nervi – Turin IT

- "Perturbaciones" National Museum of Fine Arts - L'Habana – CUBA

- "Coexist.Eight different kind of fantastic art" treated by Ivan Quaroni - E-lite studiogallery – Lecce IT
- "Qristmas Fireworks" Circolo Quadro – Milan IT

- "Pocket Art format" Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea – Ostuni IT

- "Urban Rebate" Le Trottoir – Milan IT

- “StereotiPop” BR1 Cultural Space - Montesilvano Colle (Pescara) IT

- “AAF Roma” G. Orizzonti Arte C. Ostuni – Rome IT
- 22 Pittori Italiani” POW Gallery – Turin IT

- “Women’s” Coveri Palace Gallery - Florence IT

- “Inside Marilyn” Combines XL - Milan IT

- “I grandi Arcani” Per Capita Arte Contemporanea – Barberino Del Mugello (Florence) IT

- “Comicom Napoli Fire” PassepaARTout Unconventional Gallery - Naples IT

- “Passato Presente Futuro” Marsiglione Art Gallery - Como IT

- “XXS – Extra Extra Small” AAM fire - SputinK Art Project - Milan IT

- “Charity auction for ADISCO” - Sothby’s - Milan IT

- “10 women for Freud” Palladium Theatre – Rome IT

- “AAF Milano” Per Capita Arte Contemporanea – Milan IT

- “AAF Milano” Orizzonti Arte – Milan IT

- “AAF Milano” POW Gallery – Milan IT

- “Week end with Per Capita Artists” Barberino Del Mugello (Florece) IT

2011

- “54° Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione Italia / Lombardia” treated by Vittorio Sgarbi - Te Palace - Mantova IT

- “Another story. Italian art from Eighty to Zero” treated by Edoardo di Mauro - San Carpoforo – Milan IT

- “Locus Animae - sixth edition: biennal out off” - foyer del Kursaal - Jesolo IT

- “AAF Roma” by Orizzonti Arte Ostuni – Rome IT

- “Discorsi Visivi” Rocca dei Rettori – Benevento IT

- “The Contemporary Art for Chad” charity auction – G. & F. Boni project– Milan IT

- “Arte a Sud” eight exhibitions in eight separate locations in Calabria IT

- “Natale con le Palle II” E. Santambrogio project – Como IT

- “Sotto L’albero” Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “S” Zaion Gallery – Biella IT

- “Più Arte meno in disparte” Show and Charity Auction – Bibliotheca Municipal – Como IT

 - “The week of Art” Casa D’arte San Lorenzo - Santa Giusta - Castiadas (CA)

- “Kind of Blue | AH-UM Poster Art Contest” The Don Gallery – Milan IT
“ArtFactory 01” Contemporary Art Fire - Pow Gallery & Spazio Sansovino – Catania IT

- “La vita in una battuta” Charity auction – Christie’s City Life – Milan IT

- “NeoPopulArt” Spazio Sansovino Arte Contemporanea - Turin IT

- “Artecremona” Contemporary Art Fire - Wannabee Gallery - Cremona IT

2010

- “Acquisizioni 2010” treated by Claudio Rizzi - Civic Museum Parisi, Maccagno (Varese) IT

- “Artists & Authors” San Diego Children Museum - USA

- “Socialising through internet” Brera Academy of Fine Arts - Milan IT

- “Marilyn noMore” - Wannabee Gallery - Milan IT

- “In diciassette il venerdì diciassette” Spazio Sansovino - Turin IT

- “Pocket Art - Format & Price” Galleria Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea – Bari IT

- “Un Natale con le palle: l’arte che fa beneficenza” E. Santambrogio project - Como IT

- “Mangia le Prugne” Charity auction - Villa Erba - Cernobbio (Como) IT

- “Eco Design e Live Painting Milano a Colori” Casa Letizia Moratti - Milan IT

2009

- “1000 Artisti a Palazzo” treated by Luciano Caramel - Cesano Maderno (Milan) IT

- “Miami Art Basel Mania” Fushion Art Gallery - Miami - USA

- “Eludendo” treated by Igor Zanti - Zaion Gallery - Biella IT

- “Male di Miele” treated by Marco Pozzi - Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Another break in the wall” Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Seven Italian Artists” Cirello Gallery San Diego - USA

- “One-foot Show” e “Regional Show” San Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Living Artist - USA

- “Undercover” Wannabee Gallery & Galleria Obraz - Milan IT

- “Love Nest” Wannabee Gallery - Milan IT

- “Arte ed Erotismo” Wannabee Gallery - Villa Castel Barco Vaprio D’Adda – Milan IT

- “Sguardi Multipli” San Bernardino Palace in Cosenza and Estense Castle in Ferrara IT

2008

- “Meeting of young Italian artists” Hotel Giacomo Casanova - Prague CZE

- “9 edition of La Fenice Et Des Artistes prize” Trieste IT

- “Sex Toys” Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Skull” - Revell Scalo D’Isola – Milan IT

- “Skull: the procession” Zaion Gallery - Biella IT

- “Skull: return to sender” Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Ceres 4 Art” – by Ceres Member of Royal Uniberew A/S - Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Dance with me!” Wannabee Gallery – Milan IT

- “Arte Contemporanea Moderna Roma” Art Fire - Wannabee Gallery – Rome IT

2007

- "Italian artists in London" SharpCut Gallery - London UK

- “Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo" by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag - Venezia IT

- “8 edition of La Fenice Et Des Artistes prize” Venice IT

- “Obiettivo Pop “ Bellini Arte - Cascina – Pisa IT

- “Ecce Homo “ Normanno Svevo Castle in Sannicandro – Bari IT

2006

- “Emozioni d’Autore” Galleria Crispi – Rome IT

- “La donna animale” - S. Francesco - Capranica – Viterbo IT

2005

- “Superficie” PiziArte Gallery - Teramo IT

- “Milan FlashArtShow” PiziArte Gallery - Ata Hotel Executive – Milan IT

- “RipArte” PiziArte Gallery - International Hotel ArtFair - Hotel Excelsior – Naples IT

2004

- “Il Volo” - E.S.P. Borgo 35 – Como IT

- “7+ In Arte” Fondazione Castellini – Como IT

- “Tondi d’autore” Duilio Zanni collection - Broletto P.zza Duomo – Como IT

2003

- “Biennial of Contemporary Art” Leonardo da Vinci Academy of Fine Arts – Roma IT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

- “Ex Voto – Per arte ricevuta” by Angelo Crespi with Fondazione Maimeri – Editor: Mondadori

- “60x60x60” 2020 by Arianna Beretta - Art book for exhibition in CircoloQuadro - Milano

- “Il libro della neve” 2019 by Franco Brevin with the painting “Story-One” 2014 Editor: Il Mulino

- “Palio in Arte” 2019 Art book for exhibition in Castel San Zeno – Montagnana (PD)

- “ConTAM in Azione nell’Atelier di Leonadro” 2019 Art book for Solo Show – text Carlo Micheli

- “5° CAB International Symposium” 2019 Art book for exhibition in CAB Art Gallery in Amman - Editor CAB ART

- “Premio Casciaro” 2019 – selected artists of the IV edition – Edizione Esperidi

- “Leonardesca” 2019 Art book for exhibition in Sant’Agostino Museum (GE- IT) and Stettin Castle (PL) – Editor:
 Liberodiscrivere

- “Il grande racconto della Guerra di Troia” 2018 by Giulio Guidorizzi with the painting “Invano Veritas” Editor: Il Mulino

- “Il grande racconto delle Religioni” 2018 by Giovanni Filoramo with the painting “#Ereshkigal” Editor: Il Mulino

- “ 15x15/20x20 | Collezione Punto sull'Arte 2018 ” Art book for exhibition in Varese – Editor Punto Sull’Arte

- “Il grande racconto della Bibbia” 2017 by Piero Stefani with the painting “Addolorata” Editor: Il Mulino

- “Viaggio nella terra dei sogni” 2017 by Maurizio Bettini with the painting “LeggerMente” Editor: Il Mulino

- “ConTAMinAzione” 2017 Art Book for solo show in Palazzo Ragione Mantova – Editor: PubliPaolini

- “Vania Elettra Tam” 2017Art Book for solo show in MACRO testaccio Roma - by Frattura Scomposta

- "Angeli e Artisti - nella Iglesia de Los Angeles" 2017 – Editor: Bellavite

- “Il grande racconto di Ulisse” 2016 by Piero Boitani, with the drawing “Circe App” 2016 - Editor: Il Mulino

- “Seconda Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea di Salerno” 2016 Art book – Editor: Paguro

- “Origami Clitoridei” 2016 Art Book for WopArt Fire Lugano by Frattura Scomposta

- “C&F” 2016 Art Book by Kauffmann Sossella – Editor: EmmegiContemporary

- “Artists 4 Rhino” 2016 – Art book for exhibition in Vigevano

- "Il grande racconto dei miti classici" 2015 by Maurizio Bettini, with the painting "La nascita di Venere" V.E.Tam ‘08 –
 Editor: Il Mulino

- “Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo - Casa Ariosto – Ferrara” 2014 - Art book by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag

- “Femminile Plurale” 2014 Art book - texts by Alessandra Alessandra Redaelli – Editor: Biffi Arte Piacenza

- “Iside Contemporanea” 2014 Art book - texts by Ferdinando Creta for Arcos Museum in Benevento

- “Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo - Vernazza Palace Lecce” 2013 Art book by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag

- “Aliens - Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo - Pirola Palace - Milan” 2013 Art book by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag

- “Coexist - Eight different kind of fantastic art" 2012 Art book - texts by Ivan Quaroni for E-lite studiogallery Lecce

- “Cielo, cielo… mi manca - solo show Vania Elettra Tam” 2012 Art book - texts by Laura Angelone for AFI Gallery in Milan

- “Lo stato italiano dell’Arte - Torino” 2012 Art book - texts by Vittorio Sgarbi – Editor: INC

- “Asta Disco - Sotheby’s” 2012 Art book (non-profit organization) curated by Francesco Zanuso for Sotheby’s Milan

- “10 ragazze per Freud” 2012 Art book curated by Lori Adranga for Nu Factory Rome

- “Lo stato italiano dell’Arte” 2011 Art book 54° Venice Biennale - curated by Vittorio Sgarbi - Editor: SKIRA

- “Un’altra storia – arte italiana dagli anni 80 agli anni 0” 2011 Art book curated by Edoardo Di Mauro - Editor: EMB

- “La vita in una battuta” 2011 Art book (non-profit organization) by Christie’s Milan

- “Discorsi Visivi – idee in Arte” 2011 Art book curated by Augusto Ozzella and Francesco Farachi – Gangelmi Editor

- “Arte a Sud” 2011 Art book curated by Francesca Londino – Ferrari Editor

- “Più arte meno in disparte” 2011 Art book (non-profit organization) curated by Giorgio Barassi e Erica Rivolta

- “Locus Animae – Biennale Out Off” 2011 Art book curated by Stefano Momentè

- “Cronaca Rosa – solo show Vania Elettra Tam” 2010 Art book - texts by Alessandra Redaelli for Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “Acquisizioni – collezione del Museo Parisi Valle di Maccagno” 2010 Art book curated by Claudio Rizzi – Silvia Editor

- “Mangia le prugne – costa poco fare molto” 2010 Art book (non-profit) curated by Luigi Cavadini e Tina Mallia

- “Another break in the wall” 2009 Art book curated by Sivia Pettinicchio for Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “Sguardi multipli – contemporary art “ 2009 Art book curated by Francesca Londino – Ferrari Editor

- “Love Nest” 2009 Art book by Shamir Chala and Silvia Pettinicchio for Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “NMB New Media Design – Le nuove forme dell’arte” 2008 Art book by Alberto Cecchi – Editor: Sonetti

- “La Fenice et des Artistes – 9” 2008 Art book curated by Giacomo Pellegrini for La Fenice Venice

- “Arte Contemporanea Moderna Roma” 2008 Art book curated by Daniela Yasmin for Art Fire Rome

- “Sex Toys” 2008 Art book curated by Sivia Pettinicchio – Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “Dance with me” 2008 Art book curated by Sivia Pettinicchio – Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “1000 Artisti a Palazzo” 2008 Art book curated by Luciano Caramel – Editor: Giorgio Mondadori

- “Un giorno di ordinaria pulizia – solo show Vania Elettra Tam” 2008 Art book curated by Igor Zanti for Wannabee
 Gallery Milan

- “Male di miele” 2008 Art book curated by Silvia Pettinicchio and Marco Pozzi for Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “Skull return to sender” 2008 Art book curated by Sivia Pettinicchio for Wannabee Gallery Milan

- “Luci.A – solo show Vania Elettra Tam” 2007 Art book by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag

- “La Fenice et des Artistes 8” 2007 Art book curated by Giacomo Pellegrini for La Fenice Venice

- “Aliens – Le forme alienanti del contemporaneo” 2007 Art book by Frattura Scomposta Art Mag

- “Milano Flash Art Show” 2005 Art book - Editor: Giancarlo Politi

 “L’altro Lario – Narratori e artisti alla scoperta di Como e del suo territorio” 2004 by V. Guarracino and P. Aquilini Editor: Como srl

Igor Zanti
from solo show’s art book "un giorno di ordinaria pulizia"
2008 - Wannabee Gallery – Milano
It is difficult to find an artist with such technical quality and attention to detail that chooses to put them to service of an ironic and irreverent language. It reminded me of the attitude of some artists who, the day after the promulgation of the art standards established by the Council of Trento, have fun irreverently with private clients, creating true masterpieces. The kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, the bedroom, and everyday tools that accompany the housewife in the repetitive rhythm of the housework, transformed to give rise to a plausible unreality, where every scene acquires an epic, poetic and theatrical flavour. One world, the one imagined by Vania Elettra Tam, which is granted to anyone, with few resources and a lot of imagination, to feel goddess or diva, saint or sinner, queen or commoner.

Alessandra Redaelli
from solo show’s art book "Cronaca Rosa"
2010 - Wannabee Gallery – Milan
Vania Elettra Tam is a contemporary philosopher who manages to say terrible things with the same lightness found in talk shows. Women, once more, are the protagonists. Women who in 2004 tried to define their identity assembling themselves piece by piece. In 2007 questioned themselves, alone in dark houses, just enlightened by a computer screen or the cold light bulb of a refrigerator. In 2008 they turned on the light to find themselves imprisoned by kitchen-traps that sucked them back inside cannibal household appliances, or by bathrooms that left them only enough space to daydream, while, standing inside bidet waiting for the shaving cream to do its course, transformed themselves for a moment in Venuses emerging from the waters.

Ivan Quaroni
from art book “Coexist. Eight different kind of fantastic art”
2012 - E-lite studiogallery – Lecce
Vania Elettra Tam’s painting is considered a pop painting of illustrative ascendancy because she uses the self-portrait as a spurious leit motive to investigate on the tic and obsessions of the contemporary feminine world. The artist draws her alter ego who puts effort into ordinary actions of daily life, the make up, having a shower or cooking... but, in her back, fantastic shadows on the domestic wall don't collimate with gestures and real movements of the characters. Vania Elettra Tam builds an ironic narration influenced by the traditions of European fairy tales and folk nursery rhymes, a sort of visible hypertext which runs parallel to the foreground actions. Her figuration mixes realistic mimesi and fantastic transfiguration and suggests a key of interpretation using circumstantial details all over the paintings.

Loredana Barillaro
from the article "Chinese Shadows | Vania Elettra Tam"2013 Small Zine
In suspended series - extremely ironic as exemplary from the title - female figures are portrayed as acrobats on wires of life, each in the flow of their days, the daily activities of their work. Each work is going to tell us how much effort play women. It is not that difficult to try to identify with them. After all, even today, maybe more than ever, for a woman to
manage in this society - sometimes violent - would become a tightrope walker. The female figures that the artist paints are never alone, there is someone behind, someone who the artist's imagination, as in a Chinese shadow play, knows how to transform into particularshapes, companions of a solitude that makes leaked a certain melancholy.

Iva Körbler
from the presentation of the solo exhibition “OKO 10”
2016 - Šibenik City Museum - Croatia
Vania Elettra Tam has been thematising continuously since 2004 the social and culturological position and role of young women in today’s consumer, hyperconsumerist society, where a wide range of mass media are trying to impose some false, unified models of a woman’s appearance, behaviour but also of stress imposed to today’s young women; they have to be perfect at everything – at their career, appearance, family and social obligations. By using a specific stylistic form, with paintings often containing self- portraits that integrate the elements of Pop Art and Hyperrealism, Vania Elettra Tam,from the woman’s point of view, provides a critical image of the world, which is extremely warning and educational: we can be pretty and well groomed but we can’t be empty- headed dolls because insisting on physical perfection or accentuating absolute perfection in all areas of life causes angst and anxiety. This is particularly important if we take into
account the pressure imposed on girls by mass media, which suggests a visit to a plastic surgeon as the fastest way to achieve success.

Franca Marri
from the presentation of the solo exhibition "Kanon - regole ferree"
2016 - Portopiccolo Art Gallery –Trieste
The artist elaborates portraits of Renaissance overlaping their faces of new iron gadgets aimed to correct their faces: too thin lips, noses a little 'crooked, too small eyes, foreheads, or minds too prominent. The canon of beauty, classical memory, once again intends to put order in a nature that seems resigned to undergo any artifice in the name of a dogma with no more meaning, in the name of something that no longer appears as an aspiration but only a form of coercion, an absurd convention. Everything always filtered through the varied universe of women that the entire work of Vania Elettra Tam is the protagonist of an imaginary both real and unreal, ironic and oneiric, alienating and detector, capable of
unmasking with intelligence and lightness of the many facets of their insecurities and frailties.

Carlo Micheli
from the anthological catalog "ConTamInAzione"
2017 - Palazzo della Ragione - Mantova
Tam includes it in her paintings for a choice of responsibility, to share the neuroses of his characters, to affirm their membership in the category of housewives frustrated, the couch potatoes, the compulsive goers of the supermarkets, the dreamers from gravure, of incurable gullible, the warriors of everyday life. And 'its a "Let us arm ourselves and start",
never an "arm yourselves and leave." To lend their likeness to the characters of her paintings she does not make herself as a hero, but a woman multiplied, able to live deeply all the experiences of her role, digging in herself, revealing dreams and needs, passions, expectations, disappointments, weaknesses and determination. One senses, in this great fresco in the style of Artaud, in this daily theater of cruelty, that the protagonist is the woman in her complexity and not the one who lends her image to make more credible the narration. We do not even touch the idea that there is a Vania / Barbie in a hundred different versions: all lead back images to a much broader concept, custom, even abstract, where the housewife, the dreamer, the frustrated, the career woman or the domestic worker are nothing but the same woman, with many facets that belong to herself, an intriguing woman, naive and bewitching, demure and shameless, a varied summary of femininity. As in a mad kaleidoscope images are doubled and recompose, presenting infinite variables, winking and venial provocations, naive or shameless, puns, double meanings that are followed in an irresistible whirlwind of contamination with literature, cinema, comics, Renaissance art, puzzles, the glossies. The everywoman Vania Elettra
Tam clings to the dream, the fantasy, the sensitivity to the peculiar qualities of the woman, to escape the monotony of everyday life: an ironing board becomes a surfboard with which dizzying ride waves; great aspirations come to mind when you grab a vacuum cleaner. But as always, talking about Vania Elettra Tam, lets not forget to emphasize the skill, rare
graphics capabilities, the originality of the sign ... And 'the fate of those who have something to say and knows externalize with their art: the end there is such a perfect symbiosis between what everyone is and how is, that we focus not to measure the individual components of the work, as saying that the graphics is taken for granted in a display that resembles a script, in works visual that are in fact stories. In Vania is a clash: it is as if the mind defied his hand to realize their thoughts more complex and bizarre, but noone can ever be won in a draw without end that is the most precious gift and the less burdensome condemnation for Vania