MARISA ZATTINI
Anatomie notturne
11 to 26 May 2024
The Exhibition
“Night Anatomies” is a story of the metamorphoses and transformations that life, in a silent and mysterious world, operates in the various dimensions of the cosmos. In this exhibition Marisa Zattini presents a series of works created in various techniques and supports (mirror-polished aluminum plates, PVC sheets, ink works on ancient letters and much more). The artist herself is an alchemist, a magician, a scientist who takes notes on ancient sheets of paper drawing insects, worms, normally almost invisible creatures, to give them life and bring them back to the sight of us human beings.
Each work is first and foremost writing and text to be seen and deciphered. The triptych of “Il mio cuore messo a nudo” is a reconfirmation of this. Works as orientation signs and tanks of sense measurement. Human organs – in this case the “heart” – become ideographic alphabets and archetypal anamorphoses. The shapes change, the lines dilate and the retinal impression changes but the essence remains unchanged. In this very serious game of luminous shadows, imaginative horizons expand like celestial constellations for new universal magnetisms, where psychological and anatomical realities of the human flourish differently, meet - or clash - with unexpected and subtle reinventions.
The Artist
Marisa Zattini was born in Forlì on 13 October 1956. Artist, architect and Art Director, she held personal exhibitions in public spaces, starting from 1976, in Italy and abroad (Sweden, England, Germany and Greece) and published monographic catalogs, with some of her poems. DOUBLE PANIC! The art of living (2009), Metamorphosis (2011) and Autoritratto (2013) includes sculptural, ceramic and photographic works, exhibited at the Oratorio S. Sebastiano, in Forlì.
In 2014 she is in Kassel with “Ali”, ceramic works in 3rd fire designed by the architect Augusto Pompili, in 1990; with “Di-segni” or dell’indole della Res (2015) she is at the MODERNARTMUSEUM in Bologna, Bertinoro, Santarcangelo di Romagna and Gallarate. In 2016 she exhibited at the I.C.I. of Athens. In 2017, “Agricoltura Celeste” – with works from 2012 to 2017 – is on tour in Cervia, Rovereto, Montefiore Conca and Rimini.
In 2017 she is in Germany (Fachsenfeld) and in 2018, with “Metamorphica”, at the Yeni Camii Mosque (Thessaloniki) then in Cesena, Sala Piana (BIBLIOTECA MALATESTIANA) and in the CHURCH OF SAN ZENONE. In the same year Alberi – Eretici | hermetici is in Forlì (Oratorio S. Sebastiano) and, in 2019, in Matera (European Capital of Culture), at Casa Cava. In 2019 “Alchemica - Transmutations between Art and Nature” is at the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RAVENNA. In 2020 “Alberi - The Aleph Beth of Nature” is hosted in the Church of the Nativity, in Rome; Church of S. Cristina, in Cesena; 2021 in Camaldoli, Chapel of the Holy Spirit; 2022 in Perugia (Convento S. Francesco al Monte); Club of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Rome); 2023 in Pomposa Abbey. In 2021 Hermetica is in the 16th century Pharmacy in Camaldoli. In 2022 Botanica Celeste has been set up in the Rocca di San Leo.
