Stefania Marchionni
About the ArtistMs. Marchionni has managed to create a personal style, true beyond any academic sterile formalism. Her ongoing research on painting the figure of a human being, expresses it in its embryonic form of stylized faces, as a metaphor of the soul and spirit they are to become. The artist portrays humanity immersed in the passions, clinging to the Earth’s freedom in the natural elements, with knotted ties of blood and chains of emotions, whether negative or positive, while the disturbances of the human soul are a perfect match with the colors used alternatively between light and shade; meanwhile what remains hidden and what they spontaneously represent, are expressed in sinusoidal lines. Purifying and cathartic pictorial reflections are seen in the emergence of faces that are lost in a symbiotic old-fashioned stream of natural elements, showing her love for life in a whirlwind of energy, swept away by the automatism over instinctual eclectic panels that guide the hand of the artist. Stefania Marchionni listens to her heart perceiving the soul’s movements, and translates them to her canvas. She observes the world and extracts every – simultaneously surreal and objective – nuance of the human condition: the inability to communicate, loneliness, ignorance, hypocrisy, but also the possibility of redemption and salvation in a metaphysical light, with careful dissolution of the nodes of spiritual ascent. This is an uplifting transcendence that pervades her later work, in which the artist uses gold and silver leaves, enriching her paintings in an expressive spell of their figures. Between angelic faces and the occasionally obscure, between good and evil, between the birth, the deadly defeat, and the victory again (the circle as a sacred symbol of life), Stefania Marchionni’s art of painting resides primarily in the sense of a life that is not restricted to fear, but goes in search of connections with the spirit of the Universe. In her latest paintings, there are dissolutions of fluid nodes: the lines are lighter and rarefied, as if they were on the point of going out in a hypothetical maze to find a new light, a way of getting out of the dualistic impasse of combining and melting. No words could be more suitable than those of the great French poet Paul Eluard: ‘Open your wings, pretty face; / require the world to be wise / because together we become real for the effort / for the will to dispose the shadows / during lightning in search of a new light’. As art critic Maria Teresa Palitta says regarding Marchionni: ‘The answer is in the vortex from which the faces emerge enchanted. The strong line of art in this era becomes a sweetening element, in a conceptual phase, with stylish exchange. It is the opening of a brilliant garrison that gives a sentence to infinite ways of being.’ - Vincenza Fava, journalist /translated from Italian/ Member DataMembership: exclusive member since Oct. 29, 2009 |
