biography
Betty Danon was born in 1927 in Istanbul (TR). In 1956 she moved to Milan, where she obtained Italian nationality and changed her name to Betty Danon. She passed away in 2002 in Milan.
Her practice involves painting, collage, typewriting. Betty Danon worked with sound and sign, starting from Jungian symbology, reducing circle and square in their primal elements - dot and line - that she will develop in her future works: abstract musical scores and interventions on Sound and Sign.
She voluntarily left, in the 1980's, the conventional art circuits in order to share her work with artists from all over the world trough Mail Art.
Betty Danon's exhbitions at galleria Tiziana Di Caro
The first exhibition by Betty Danon at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro was in 2017 and it was entitled Geometrie anni Settanta: tra logico e poetico, programmato e casuale.
The second solo show by Betty Danon at Galleria Tiziana was between 2017 and 2018; the title was Enigma di fondo.
In 2019 Galleria Tiziana Di Caro has organized an exhibition in collaboration with Federica Schiavo and Norma Mangione, and the work by Betty Danon was shown at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Milan.
Galleria Tiziana Di Caro works in strict contact and collaboration with Betty Danon archive.
Recently her work has been shown on the occasion of:
Scrivere Disegnando, When Language Seeks Its Other (in collaboration with Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne), curated by Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi, 2020,
The unespected subject 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy, curated by Marco Scotini and Raffaella Perna, Frigoriferi Milanesi, 2019,
Doing Deculturalization, curated by Ilse Lafer, Museion Bolzano, 2019
Betty Danon's most important exhibitions include:
Magma, curated by Romana Loda, Museo di Castelvecchio Verona, 1977,
Materializzazione del linguaggio curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, Biennale Venezia, 1978,
Sound, PS1, New York, 1979,
Lis 79, National Modern Art Gallery, Lisbon, 1979,
Art Beyond Poetry, westf lisher kunstverein, mynster, Germany, 1979,
Il tempo nel museo, Biennale di Venezia, 1980,
Linea della ricerca italiana 60-80, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, 1981,
Biennale di Sao Paolo, Brasil, 1981,
In-comunicabile, Museo d'arte Contemporaneo, San Paolo, Brasile, 1982