Giuliana Montanari pages of history etched
Exhibitions, Italy, Brescia, 11 January 2014
(...) "... A get into his artistic research but also in his private notes and statements from the same author. Here's the idea , then, for a publishing project that unites collective and personal memory , archiving in individual and artistic , with a beginning and a becoming through a creative process in the dialogue of art, the darling , that of a life , made signs and backgrounds have not yet been laid down in a monograph unit . Not only that . Here's the idea for an anthology edited by Richard Prevosti in the halls of " ab gallery / art" of Brescia.
A life between strong feelings of a poetic feeling , with the arguments of a woman in continuous search of harmony in nature , gestures , like the conductor of an orchestra , which summarizes the conclusion of a composition, maybe Messiaen , whose Montanari he looked and listened in his days in the laboratory, while the silence of the press reported to the sources of literature or even painting that we find in the passages above messiaeniani . Because it binds fully with the transformation caused by the acid for etching or a soft paint , or with graining for a mezzotint , or a cloud of bitumen for an aquatint , a choral song of intaglio techniques in his hands notes seem to spread over a keyboard whenever is preparing to tap as an amalgam with the artwork . Because it expresses a habitat to exist under pressure , and each time new discoveries, new trials , so as to leave an indelible mark in the critical judgment by choosing styles and themes to be revealed in seminal works on paper that is the goal and the final goal in ' imprinted image , appearance of landscapes of the soul in accessions sentimental .
They are facts, trends and structures , suggestions compared with the characters of the twentieth century , so that would be enough to slide some titles given to the incisions to realize that they are already in a kind of Ariadne's thread in extricating between signs as a manual describing memories and labors tracked in the grooves of sheets of zinc or copper , for optimal results with tears , joy and redemption in the poetry of the moment and its after it has once again art . The beauty that arises, Kandinsky said , "from a psychic inner necessity ," because " what is beautiful is beautiful inside ... Color is the key. The eye is the hammer , the soul, the piano with many strings " and the artist is" the hand that , by touching this or that key , shakes the soul. "
The reference can , therefore, is already that day long ago when he had the sensation of feeling somewhere inside himself that call and find yourself on the road to the art of a master from Urbino what was Luigi Corsini , understand and follow its courses engraving, intaglio printing because it would be her realization, the encouragement to realize his dreams . It will , in fact, how to write a paper in folders that you are "books" that he always wanted to write, for each set of recordings is almost a correspondence with itself, a journal for something to deal with or investigate, or better, represented a kind of chronicle where everything is possible . And if the intangible side inspired by the blaze to be seized in the small things , the only poetry could add entries to be entrusted with the words of a vital necessity that seems to be an image of the art of Giuliana Montanari .
Born in Faenza, near Ravenna , arrived in Brescia in 1948 and graduated in Milan in Literary in 1963. He taught Italian , Latin and history , and from 1985 to 1990 intaglio techniques at the School of Art Association artists from Brescia . In short, she left a professorship of letters, making a drastic and difficult choice , to devote himself to art, and will be years of hard work and tough but in which collects the first favorable reviews from critics and the public. Does everything by itself : study, analysis of the different techniques , choice and mix of colors and inks, research papers and finally manual printing the press. It is increasingly fascinated by this "medium " that allows her to express ideas clearly defined , and undertakes on plates that divests up the essentials of a vanguard that already turned to experimentation , stating in his first works in 1973 his relationship with the nature of reality and abstraction, between informal and what is more the idea of R03;R03;approaching beauty from the beautiful interior , starting to build a grammar that will become aesthetic style . And imagine the modus operandi to combine mixed in concepts and knowledge , such as ink on the sheet, but different experiences that evoke emotions related to formulate a comparison between extraordinary intellectual creativity and planning . In fact , the art of engraving Montanari has grown a lot in recent years in his question human , surprised and painful , just in
spy flow, magma clots and sudden transparency of life, felt as organic matter and breath bright. "(...)
From the critical text by Andrea Barretta

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