Bianco secondo se stesso (Blanc selon lui-même) (1987)
Tempera and oil paint on wood
| Period | Contemporary (1945-today) |
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Suite of five panels (242 x 125 cm each panel).
Mixed media, unsigned.
Provenance Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, exhibition 1990.
Illustration of the conceptual and philosophical work of Mariella Simoni who, in the 80's, worked on large formats, of which she became the interpreter, putting layers of movement on large wooden panels, in continuous movement for long periods, sometimes weeks.
Large format magnificent in a loft, a large living room, a hall.
Mariella Simoni began working in Italy in the 1970s. Her art, endowed with great presence and evincing a direct relation to place and memory, rapidly attracted attention throughout Italy and Europe. Soon, she was opposing image and projection with painting and drawing. During the years that followed, the place of the object became the great subject of negotiation for anyone working with painting. Mariella Simoni resisted the tendency to trivialize painting and, entering the 1980s, she and a handful of fellow artists in Milan stuck to an oblique approach when the great majority of their fellows were either turning out very direct, literal painting or barricading themselves behind the rigor of Conceptualism.
Mariella Simoni is a prophetic artist, a painter of infinite movement and consoling thought. At a time when the world seems to be collapsing on all sides, her work rises up before us and gently holds the gaze before the final horizon.
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