ROBERTA MARIANI

I’m a Rome-based visual artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and that of Granada. After studying painting, set design, and printmaking techniques, I worked for several years as an art conservator and pictorial decorator. These jobs allowed me to rework the chromatic universe of past masters, especially from the 14th and 15th centuries, and to put me findings to daily use in her artistic practice.

Painting and sculpure are at the centre of my work, my research is based on impermanence and phenomenal transience, on the internal rhythm of painting itself, in a continuous dialogue between instinct and control. My work does not follow a specific project, it is the result of a progression. My production emerges from a negotiation between opposing forces, a space of research aimed at identifying a possible balance.

In the latest works my research go beyond the circumscribed space of the work to generate timeless worlds and phantasmagorical visions in which everything is constantly being born and dying.
 

“Form as a folded form existing only as a mental landscape, in the soul or in our head, in height, where we find the immaterial folds”

 

                                                                                                                                  Gilles Deleuze