I COLORI DEL VENTO
Alberto D’Atanasio, 2017
English version
However, it happens, it did happen and will happen again. And one hopes that this wind blows again because when time lapses unstressed and voiceless, the air gets stuffy and life becomes hard. Maria Bazzanella commenced creating in response to an inner wind that she cannot and does not want to explain because an artist’s soul is a maze in which they only know how to enter, and they only know how and when to come out. Forcing them would be useless, trying to understand would be vain. They decide when and how, above all when the artist is a woman. Maria Bazzanella follows the wind blowing in her mind and soul so that Eros and Psyche can find their places and identities again, then she draws with the gentleness of those who learnt to draw from the Wind. She can place objects and colours with the talent of those who consider the backing a magical space, where imagination becomes image, shape. And in some of her work, the stroke becomes sensual and feminine, almost if erotism was a means to keep her fear of death, lack of love, abandonment, silence or noise away. In these works, the hue tends to acute red, or more introverted blue and black.
In other works Maria Bazzanella seems to be keeping away the many past lives that by archetype, memory or because actually lived, each one of us bears within; the artist has the ability to make these demons visible, and because of that, they seem to calm, almost changing from enemies to traveling companions, allowing to be read and narrated.
It is like if within Maria there was a room full of fantastic demons, nymphs and gnomes, gods and demigods who, when the wind blows, get to life as the Muses on the Parnassus when Apollo arrives. But if Apollo lit the Muses so that they could in turn inspire the humans, she, when Anemos wakes her inner Girl up, calls for the young, the adult and the old woman within so that they can give that madness a sense, madness that she feels and lives in her art as the most immense, precious and luminous wealth.
In some compositions, materials overlap objects as if from her inner room those demons were bringing objects so that the story can be told, and capture even the most distracted spectator. Even though the collage might come across too different from other works of hers, she makes sense of everything with a rare capability and with a composing talent which reminds of music and dance. This way, an object found in an antique shop, an oxidised frame, drawings and colours become signs of a synchronicity that wants to come out and break the silly philosophy of fate.
Maria is a Woman-Girl who finds her Young Woman, and who, in an ageless charm, tells us her story using images.
This way, Zephyr, Anemoi, Wind transforms Chloris into Spring; she looks at us and spreads roses because shortly Aphrodite will allow blind Cupid to aim at Chastity, and she, together with Pureness and Passion, will commence the dance; Hermes witnesses all this and warns the Gods of Olympus of what is happening to Maria Bazzanella and of the colours of Wind.
Alberto D’Atanasio
Docente M.I.U.R. di Storia dell’Arte,
Estetica dei Linguaggi Visivi. Teoria della percezione e Psicologia della forma
LE FORME DELL’ANIMA
Giulietta Calzini, 2017
La pluralità dei miti e delle loro interpretazioni, così come delle antinomie interiori assumono, nella sua pittura, una configurazione materica, colorata e multidimensionale, grazie all’ausilio di perle, tessuti, smalti e strati di colore che evocano espressioni surreali.
L’esorcismo che Mimì compie altro non è che il tentativo di dare forma alla frammentarietà che ci compone: delicatezza e brutalità coesistono, mescolandosi i un cromatismo simbolico e ricco di carica emotiva.
Ecco allora che le chimere e i demoni assumono forma; ecco che le paure e i desideri prendono voce: la voce di Mimì, colorata, tagliente ed enigmatica.
Ha scritto di lei con forte risonanza nel pubblico e nella critica il prof. Alberto D’Atanasio, docente M.I.U.R. di Storia dell’Arte.
In seguito al successo riscontrato a “Biennale Milano” 2017 e all’incontro con il Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi, l’artista ci dedica la sua personale di 20 opere, molte delle quali inedite.
Testo critico di Giulietta Calzini, gallerista d’arte in Sanremo.
Sanremo, 27 Ottobre 2017.