Patrizia Taddei (born 1948) is an Italian-born artist in

San Marino San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino, is a landlocked country in Southern Europe, completely surrounded by Italy. Located on the northeastern slopes of the Apennine Mountains, it is the larger of two European microstates, microsta ...

. After drawing attention in the early 1970s for her conceptual work, Taddei became known for her painting and sculpture. She has repeatedly represented the microstate of San Marino at the

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Biography

Patrizia Taddei was born in 1948 in

Montescudo Montescudo is a frazione and former ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rimini in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about south of Rimini. Montescudo borders the following municipalities: Corian ...

, a commune in the Italian

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. As a teenager, she attended an arts high school in

Ancona Ancona (, also ; ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona, homonymous province and of the region. The city is located northeast of Ro ...

. Then, beginning in 1969, she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. She eventually settled in the

microstate A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or land area, usually both. However, the meanings of "state" and "very small" are not well-defined in international law. Some recent attempts to define microstates ...

of San Marino, where she lives and works in

Faetano Faetano (Romagnol: ''Faitén'') is one of the nine castelli of San Marino. It occupies an area of . As of 2023, it had a population of 1,173 inhabitants, and was the third least populated castello of San Marino. History The territory of San ...

. During her time at the Accademia di Belle Arti she became interested in the conceptual art movement, as well as

Arte Povera Arte Povera (; literally "poor art") was an art movement that took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in major cities throughout Italy and above all in Turin. Other cities where the movement was also important are ...

. Between 1973 and 1974 (she produced a series of conceptual works, some of which were recorded through photographs, while others are only recorded in the memories of the artist and attendees. Subjects explored in this series included San Marino's unique experience as a microstate. In addition to these conceptual works, Taddei has primarily produced works of painting and sculpture. In the 1980s, she shifted to work that explores

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and

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. Her work has also drawn on imagery from religion, mythology, and fairy tale. Alongside Marina Busignani Reffi, Walter Gasperoni, and Gilberto Giovagnoli, she is one of the San Marino artists whose work is represented in the . The museum's permanent collection prominently features her 1973 conceptual work ''Andare via''. Her work has also represented San Marino at the

on multiple occasions, most recently in 2017.

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