Mariarosaria Stigliano’s solo exhibition;
Tests in catalogue by Marco Testa and Ida Mitrano;
Graphic and photos by Bruno Parretti
Torretta Valadier P. le Ponte Milvio, Roma (Italy)
From 1st November 2008 to 5th November 2008.
Opening time: from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Vernissage: on Saturday 1st November 2008, at 6 p.m

“Life is made of arrives and returns and of endless instants between these two events: a Limbo fed of waiting and dynamism, where we flow with our choices, our decisions, our anxieties and our loves, and where we are lost in ways that don’ t belong to us of which we are part.

These are paths that we daily undertake, like in a ritual engagement with life, and conscious of our limits, we immerse ourselves full of thoughts into the crowd, that like us becomes ghost of itself: restless souls that wander, that meet and clash even thought they never touch each other. Essences, presences, but after all, corporeal absences that become shadows of our own ideas, of our emotional plans. Living ghosts that crowd the cities we built not anymore in the optic of our needs, but for our functionalities, for our benefit, where every signal to the Nature that releases is cancelled.

Mariarosaria Stigliano shows with her art, as in a filtering mirror, how much time of our life we live as ghosts of ourselves, absorbed one another, without identity. Like a chameleon we lose our animal nature to become part, by now of the structure, of the paths we live.

The frozen dynamism in her works, remind us what we are losing with the speed: the value of the details, the flavours of the uniqueness.

All the protagonists in her works, in fact, running for an arrive or a return, are souls dissolved in the everyday actions, in stable runs. But no one could swear about their return.

Mariarosaria Stigliano looks with eyes of someone who stops and therefore observes: with her own very personal expressive language, she translates in “binary visions” a world that doesn’ t seem to belong to her. In her oil works, in her papers marked with the graphite, in her engraving, the artist offer to us the opportunity of an emotional redemption, consisting also in necessary pauses made to recover, in a always more and more alienating world, to keep back the weight and the consistency of our life”.

Marco Testa