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FaMa Gallery returns to “woman-speak” with the solo exhibition of the artist Mariangela Levita, one of the key figures in the collective show entitled “Le Figlie di Eva” hosted at the gallery in early 2013. Her exhibition will be inaugurated on Friday, 27 September and will be open to the public until 14 December 2013.
ESSENTIAL MIX – this is the title of the show curated by Andrea Bruciati – is a project expressly created for the spaces of the FaMa Gallery, offering a set of pictorial works and installations. It is a path that, as the curator’s words suggest, is punctuated by “pure colours that follow the rooms, thanks to a soft geometry that unfolds into musical scores: speculation on language understood as a binary code to be probed based on a need that, above all, is experiential”.
Levita is known for her important permanent public works abroad and in Italy. In particular, in Naples she did the wall paintings for the Palermo Pavilion of Cardarelli Hospital, the installation for the Don Bosco Bridge and, recently the Flag-Down project for the Casa del Cristallini and the Neo-Evolution project for the Istituto Scolastico Nido. Painting is central to her artistic practice, proceeding towards the profound questioning of her own linguistic codes through a fast-paced dialogue with tradition, in an exchange that radically redefines the role this expressive medium plays in contemporary society.
Levita’s language thus acquires a completely unique connotation that can mediate different classic and contemporary suggestions, which recur in most of her works. The outcome is a fascinating and complex compositional universe composed of colour and geometric patterns, defined by the presence of a multiplicity of elements that, according to the artist, are only seemingly contradictory: the natural and the artificial, the manual and the serial, and painting and graphics seamlessly converge.
The ESSENTIAL MIX project conceived and executed for the FaMa Gallery is composed of various formal elements: geometric volumes and signs repeated in a modular but non-uniform way, chromatic partitions inspired and composed by the CMYK colour model – the acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black) – that alternate different fields of colour. The result is a sort of visual loop that almost hypnotically guides the spectator’s gaze from one form to another, one module to another, one field to another, and from emptiness to matter.
Bruciati notes that Levita’s research “is uncompromising, and for the space of the FaMa Gallery it projects a fully fledged environment for a totalizing art, the manifesto of precise poetics on the phenomenological and perceptual datum. Lucidly conducted through the modulation and contiguity of harmonic cells, the artist’s intervention takes form through scans of the four-colour process, interrupted by the silence of whites and the counterpoint of blacks, which rhythmically probe the volumes, creating an uninterrupted examination that expands space into potentially infinite segments”.
