GALLERIES

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"The recovery of figuration that since the eighties has characterized a large section of artistic production, European in particular, has taken different paths, each with its own evolution; among them, the path of revisiting the old, especially the late-Renaissance and Mannerist art, which allowed intellectual games of great and engaging charm. Luana Lapi is placed in this context, with a well-defined personality; identifying, in the references, themes, and iconography that allow her to relive at the same time surreal situations. So her mannequins are just dummies, with a metaphysical matrix, but at the same time, they are free sculptures – the artist also has a significant sculptural ability – and, adorning them with flowers and fruit, become symbols of a world simultaneously Arcadian and grotesque, to the boundaries of Arcimboldo’s taste. At the same time, the female figures corseted like eighteenth and nineteenth-century ladies, take us back to an atmosphere of spicy intimacy. All wrapped in a fantastic vapor which is like a musical rhythm. A painting at the same time cultured and full of seduction."

Rossana Bossaglia