Biography:
Giuliana Macchi was born in Bologna where she lives and works. She has succesfully partecipated in exhibitions, events and competitions. She attends Maestro Alcide Fontanesi's atelier at the Centro Mascarella. ...hers is a gestural art which ranges from grafics, in which she expresses her sign straight off, to manipulation of material, again gesturally giving it life and colour in a plastic and chromatic triumph. Domenico Storari Urbano” (Urban Landscape), one of Macchi’s exhibitions, held in the rooms of the gallery “L’Ariete” at 7 Via Marsini, Bologna . A delicacy of shades, of sign and also of moods characterize these works which sometimes however become disturbing and incisive. The painter proceeds to the conquest of the right expression of her poetic world, which derives only from herself but which, to express itself, finds – in an almost supreme quality of instinct – that rightness of shades, values and measure. In brief, these belong, rather than to modern conceptions, to her natural bent towards modernity. An artist of highly acute chromatic sensitivity who shades the refined color in tonalities of an actually extenuated gentleness. Without phases or pauses Macchi, in accordance with the limpid continuity of an impulsive coherence, appeals to her own instinctive charge and poet’s heart. Franco Solmi The relationship you manage to establish almost immediately with Giuliana Macchi’s work undeniably finds its genesis in the balanced synthesis which this artist has been able to carry out between two essential and sometimes contradictory moments of her aesthetic sensitivity. On the one hand an irrepressible “creative fury”, constantly manifest and expressed in a total freedom of sign, and experienced with the taste of the most independent gesture. On the other, a compositional balance, measured and precise, guided with a lucid final awareness. This awareness is all the more surprising inasmuch as it is not attributable - by the artist’s own admission - to a long (meaning broad and chronological) formal research but rather to an innate ability for visual construction, essential balances, experienced in an unconscious and visceral manner. With a superficial approach the type of abstraction predominant in Macchi’s works might appear traceable to evocations of clearly naturalistic origins, in the sense of a revisiting, in a strictly personal key, of the aesthetic approach which was typical of this land - the Po Valley region - some decades ago. But in reality the correct dimension to attribute, in my opinion, is quite another. What I mean is “informal” work, pursued with the greatest freedom, which does not favor any one of its own constitutive elements or which - to put it better - favors each of them in equal measure, in a “masterful” melting: a color range which is typically sculptural. In Giuliana Macchi’s artistic production special mention must be made of her works on paper which, originating incredibly as simple memos of ideas, like preparatory studies for works “under way” to be defined and re-elaborated, ended up by taking on their own configuration, absolutely autonomous, in which the chromatic gestural aspect has the advantage over every other graphic necessity, converting their position of departure to a point of arrival. Angelo Varzi
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