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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator
Serena Ciccone is a visual artist who explores the ephemeral and transitory through light, transparency and color. Her installations are forms which manifest in space, suggesting dreamlike, fairy-tale and abstract imagery. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects, and is a finalist for the Combat Prize. Read more
by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur
Benedetta Cappa was a multifaceted 20th-century Italian artist: painter, writer, set designer… Often obscured, she nevertheless possessed a vibrant personality, so much so that she soon adopted her first name as her pen name, both in her writings and paintings: Benedetta. Read more
by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur
Mario Reviglione was a painter, and printmaker, close to Symbolism, a forerunner of the Art Deco style, akin to the movement of Magic Realism, and proudly countering the dominant style of the early 20th century. His two favorite subjects were landscape and portrait. In painting nature he drew more heavily on Belgian and French Symbolist tendencies, evident in his views of lakes at the evocative hours of dawn and dusk, while in his portraits he stands out for his utter originality.
by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi
The works of French artist Mira Maodus of Serbian-Russian origin are characterized by complex interactions between shapes and colors, overlapping signs and numbers, giving rise to truly visual narratives with dreamlike and vibrant atmospheres. Her research, in fact, focuses on the very essence of the artistic approach, aiming to free the constraints of the sign in a free and universal creative context. Her professional career, which has evolved from figurative to abstract, includes a fifty-year stint at Atelier 11 in Paris where, through various stories and testimonies, she was influenced by the legacy of artists like Amadeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Constantin Brancusi. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in countries such as Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States, China, Russia, Canada, and more. Let’s talk with the artist. Read more
by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi
The paintings created by the artist Ivan Arlaud are set in those interiors where moments of everyday life take place, made up of simple details and familiar objects, and are characterized by a palette of vivid colors and contrasting shades, which immerse the viewer in warm and luminous atmospheres. And, although there is no trace of human presence, the images emanate a sense of serenity, telling us evocative stories which have just begun, and all yet to be invented. This is the case in Le maison de vancances (2026), La véranda (2025), Étude Table Composée (2024), L’appartment rue Girardon (2023), Nature Morte aux Citrons (2023), Nice (2022), and Choix de Poems (2022). Let’s talk about it with the artist. Read more