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Name: Patrizia Spinelli      

Birthplace : Livorno, Italy   

Date: September 27th 1964

Living (so far) among Tuscany, Milan, Rome, New York and London, she graduates from the advanced studies (where, she says " I learnt little about life and even less about art but a great deal about the "nobleness" of being part the herd"). Right away she starts to work (trying a dozen of different jobs in a couple of years) and finally she ended up to be an executive secretary in a residential hotel as well as a free lance reporter and photographer (for minimum wages). After seven years, bored to death, she packs all her stuff and move to New York "for a month, to learn the language" but she remain for three years, going to and from USA and Italy ( "I had a tourist visa and I was allowed to stay just for six months. With a lawyer help I obtained the permission to remain eight months but that was it. Coming back home, I found a way to make some money giving private lessons to kids attending the secondary school and serving in a restaurant as a waitress, so for three years I spent four months working in Italy and eight attending to the ICP -International Center of Photography- and the SVA -School of Visual Arts- in America"). Going definitively back in Italy ("I've got no money left, except for one hundred dollars which, as soon my feet touched the ground, I used to buy another ticket") she goes right away to Milan where her uncle and aunt lives. There she attends to a one year creative writing / screenplay workshop held by the Italian movie-director Giovanni Robbiano. At the same time she also offers voluntary service for the Transnational Radical Party's in the Referendum non-profit-making Organization and for a sequence of unlikely coincidences, she soon find herself First Assistant of Sergio D'Elia, secretary of "Hands Off Cain" (Committee against death penalty in the world) becoming in six months chief of the Transnational Radical Party's Organizing Committee of north-Italy. During a year of hard work ("I used to sleep five hours at night, when I was lucky") she coordinates a large number of events, included many political meetings and television apparitions for Marco Pannella (founder of the Radical Party) the press conferences for the Tibetan Monk Palden Gyatso (who was sentenced to thirty-three years imprisonment by the Chinese government) as well as a lot of spectacular demonstrations, one for all the Pro Free Tibet Campaign "From the roof of Europe to the roof of the world" when a Tibetan flag was planted on the top of the Monte Bianco. Moving from Milan to Rome to work in the Padical Party's headquarters, she has an unpleasant awakening about political life ("In the end I realized that everybody on the upper spheres were playing a chess game where the pawns were the unaware citizens"). So, frustrated and disillusioned, she retires from public life and goes back to Tuscany, where she once again finds a job as reporter and photographer for a local newspaper and explores new and old horizons (graphic designer and illustrator) becoming also the official spokes-woman for the Green Federation. Sensitive to the ecologist themes, she founds a environmentalist non-profit-making organization called S.E.A.N and starts to design innovative "according to nature" aquascapes (aquarium interior designs) becoming in a short period of time one of the most well-known Italian expert in aquariophilia. Accomplishing in 2001 a multimedia research, she produces the brief documentary "MicroMondo" (MicroWorld) about fresh water micro-fauna, which draws the attention and the sponsorship of Intel Corporation, receiving also the nomination for "research of the year" during the Fourth National Congress of Aquariophily. At the present, she lives and works in West London.

Bio notes edited by Davide di Nardo

"Life is ugly, and cruel, and tough. And if we are lucky, is quite long too... We all need something beautiful to help us get through this nonsense..."

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