Bettina Werner

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Born in Milan, Italy in 1965, Bettina Werner is an internationally renowned artist. She studied at the prestigious Brera Academy of Fine Art. She has been living and working in New York City for many years.

Bettina Werner is known as the "Queen of Salt" for her pioneering and revolutionary use of salt in art. In the early 1980s she invented the "textured colorized salt technique," her salt artworks are recognized worldwide and are present among the most prestigious art collections in the US and Europe. She spent more then 20 years investigating the diverse possibilities of the medium and her research has been documented in numerous international Art exhibitions in Museums and Galleries.

In New York in 2002, she founded The Salt Queen Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution, its goals include the celebration of artists whose free imagination is uniquely expressed through the use of innovative techniques and unusual materials.

Her paintings, sculptures and environmental installations have been exhibited in Museums and galleries in Europe, in Russia and the Americas including: the Whitney Museum, New York, the Detroit Institute of Art, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Portofino Museum, Italy, Triennale Museum in Milan, Chase Manhattan Bank, the collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, the collection of Martin Margulies of Miami and the collection of Nicos Vernicos of Athens, Greece.

Reviews and features on her work have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Art in America, Elle, Architectural Digest,The Chicago Tribune,The Miami Herald, ArtNews, Elle Decor, GQ, Flash Art, Hamptons Magazine, New York Post,'Espresso, Il Corriere della Sera, and many more publications.

Bettina Werner's Exhibition at Marisa Del Re Gallery, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, New York City 1991Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina Werner's Exhibition at Marisa Del Re Gallery, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, New York City 1991
Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina Werner's Exhibition: "Five Years Together" at Marisa Del Re Gallery, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, New York City 1995Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina Werner's Exhibition:
"Five Years Together"
at Marisa Del Re Gallery, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, New York City 1995
Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina WernerTibino's Light, 20014 pieces, 20 x 20 inches each Bettina Werner' Salt Painting Copyright © 2001Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina Werner
Tibino's Light, 2001
4 pieces, 20 x 20 inches each Bettina Werner' Salt Painting Copyright © 2001
Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina WernerOcean, 1996 4 panels, 24 x 80 inches each Bettina Werner' Salt Painting Copyright © 1996Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's
Bettina Werner
Ocean, 1996
4 panels, 24 x 80 inches each Bettina Werner' Salt Painting Copyright © 1996
Painting created with textured colorized salt technique invented by Bettina Werner in the early 1980's

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[edit] Catalogues and Books

---Bettina Werner. The Salt Queen Foundation Grafiche Renna, Italy 2002
---Bettina Werner. Salt of the Earth. Grafiche Renna, Italy 2000
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, De Agostini, Italy 1999
---Bettina Werner. Queen of Salt. Milan, Leonardo Arte, 1999
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, De Agostini, Italy 1998
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, De Agostini, Italy 1997
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, De Agostini, Italy 1996
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, Fenice 2000, Italy 1995
---Bettina Werner. Arte Contemporanea Italiana, Fenice 2000, Italy 1994
-Abbate, Fulvio, curator. Quattro idee di un mondo. Rome, Italy 1998
-Argan, Giulio Carlo. L'Arte Moderna. Florence, Sansoni 1990
-Bassanese, Nadia. Tre Artisti e Tre Critici. Trieste, Italy 1989
---Biennale Sculptoor ë94. Amsterdam, Het Parool 1994
-Berchicci, Guglielmo. Flowers, Rome, Italy 1997
-Bonomi, Giorgio, curator. Trilogia I. Mochetti, Camerani, Werner. Perugia, Italy 1991
-Bonito Oliva, Achille, curator. Arie, Italy, Cartesegrete
-Bonito Oliva, Achille, curator. Artae, Milan, Prearo, 1991
-Bonito Oliva, Achille, curator. De Europa, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1991
-Bonito Oliva, Achille. Cosi' lo stato delL'arte. Rome, Leonardo de Luca, 1991
-Caramel, Luciano, curator. Arte come comunicazione di vita. Milan, Franco Maria Ricci, 2000
-Cerrato Giuliana, Gribaudo, Paola, Nota, Silvana. Libra donne dell'arte e di carta. Torino, Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, 1996
-Damianovic Maia. Minimal Optimal. New York, Elga Wimmer Gallery, 1995
-Del Re, Marisa. IIIeme Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo 1991. Monaco 1991
-Del Re, Marisa.IV Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo 1993. Monaco B&C Communication, 1993
-Del Re, Marisa. VI Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo 1997. Monaco, 1997
-Friedman, Alan, and Gregoretti, Marco. Artisti degli ultimi anni nelle collezioni private milanesi. Milan, Mazzotta, 1994
-Girotti, Eugenia. Footwear, Fifth Years History. Milan, Be-Ma ed. 1995
-Georgia, Olivia. Lo Spirito: New Art from Italy. Staten Island, Snug Harbor Museum, New York 1993
-Giudici, Lorella. MadreNatura. Milan, Prearo 1997
-Gribaudo, Paola. Bettina Werner's Dalmatians Calendar, Torino 1997
-Gribaudo, Paola. Bettina Werner's Calendar, Torino 1998
-Gribaudo, Paola. Bettina Werner's Calendar, Torino 2000
-Halpern, Nora. Arte poetica. Malibu, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles 1993
-Hoeltzel, Susan. Close to Home. Lehman College Art Gallery, NY1996
-Laurent Elie Badessi. Skin. Edition Stemmle, Zurich, New York 2000
-Leonetti, Francesco. La vita e gli amici. Lecce, Piero Manni 1992
-Mango, Lorenzo. Bettina Werner. Perugia, Italy 1991
-Mazza, Samuele, curator. Cinderella's Revenge. San Francisco, Chronicle Books 1995
-Mazza, Samuele, curator. Blazing/Eyes. Milan, Idea Books 1996
-Mazza, Samuele, curator. Contenitorio. Milan, Idea Books 1996
-Mazza, Samuele, curator. Celebri Kiss. Milan, Leonardo Arte 1997
-Menna, Filiberto. Bettina Werner. Milan, Galleria Milano 1989
-Mirolla, Miriam,Zacconi,Guido.Arte del Novecento.Milan, Mondadori Universita' 2002
---Milano-Poesia. Rotonda della Besana, Milan, ed. Intrapresa, Italy 1988
---The New Museum's 22nd Benefit Gala&Art Auction, New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1999
-Nereo, Rotelli, Marco, curator. Kamasutra arte e poesia. Lugano, Modern Art Collection 2000
-Panza di Biumo, Giuseppe, Baudson, Michel, Gorreri, simonetta, Bonito Oliva, Achille, Gualdoni, Flaminio. Artelago. Monate Lake, Italy 1991
-Pomodoro, Arnaldo, Werner, Bettina, Leonetti, Francesco. Scolio I. Castel delL'Ovo, Naples, ed. Electa 1988
-Pomodoro, Arnaldo, Werner, Bettina, Leonetti, Francesco. Scolio II. Rotonda della Besana, Milan 1988
-Restany, Pierre. III Biennale de Sculpture Monte Carlo, 1991, Torino, Stamperia Artistica Nazionale 1991
-Varouzaky Emmy, curator. International Symposium of Marble Sculpture, Thassos, Greece 1992
-Venturoli, Marcello, curator, Mare Mare.Naples, Electa 1988
-Werner, Bettina. Five Years Together, New York, Marisa Del Re Gallery 1995
-Werner, Bettina. Toccare con mano, Milan, Fabia Calvasina Gallery, 1996
-Westmacott Jean. Women Artists in the Vogel Collection, Gainesville, Georgia, Brenau University 1998