Marisa Zattini’s solo show “Anatomie Notturne”, curated by Roberto Pagnani, will be inaugurated on Saturday 11 May 2024 at 6.30 pm at the Pallavicini22 Art Gallery exhibition space in Viale Giorgio Pallavicini 22 in Ravenna. The exhibition catalog contains the critical texts by Andrea Pompili and Roberto Pagnani with a note from the artist in the margin of the work and a tribute to Janus.
The inauguration will be accompanied by musical interventions by Daniele Brancaleoni, violin teacher at the G.Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro. The exhibition will remain on display until Sunday 26 May and will be open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday on weekdays from 4pm to 7pm. Finissage Sunday 26 May from 6pm to 8pm. Free entry.
The event, promoted and organized by CARP Associazione di Promozione Sociale in collaboration with the Pallavicini 22 Art Gallery Exhibition Space, with the Ghigi-Pagnani Collection Archive and with Felsina Factory, takes advantage of the patronage of the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region of Municipality of Ravenna Department of Culture, of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna, of the Port System Authority of the central-northern Adriatic Sea.
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 sorceress, 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 “My heart laid bare” is a reconfirmation of this. Works as orientation signs and sense measurement tanks. 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 has 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 his poems. Double Panic! The art of living (2009), Metamorphosi (2011) and Autoritratto (2013) includes sculptural, ceramic and photographic works, exhibited at the Oratorio S. Sebastiano, in Forlì.
In 2014 he was in Kassel with “Ali”, 3rd fire ceramic works designed by the architect Augusto Pompili, in 1990; with “Di-signi” or dell’indole della Res (2015) is at the Modernartmuseum in Bologna, Bertinoro, Santarcangelo di Romagna and Gallarate. In 2016 he exhibited at the ICI in Athens. In 2017, “Agricoltura Celeste” – with works from 2012 to 2017 – is touring in Cervia, Rovereto, Montefiore Conca and Rimini.
In 2017 he was in Germany (Fachsenfeld) and in 2018, with “Metamorphica”, at the Yeni Camii Mosque (Thessaloniki) then in Cesena, Sala Piana (Malatesta Library) 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 was set up in the Rocca di San Leo.
