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The Time Painting

mara montanari

Italy

Painting, Acrylic on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Size: 25.6 W x 21.7 H x 0.8 D in

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(in italano sotto) The painting is framed on normal wooden frame with canvas and then over, the silk painting stretchened. T.M. it refers to a famous, award-winning artist, who however, I don't want to disturb; I'm simply referring to him because twenty years have passed between his first and second artwork, two masterpieces; critics are immediately ready to underline this 'anomaly' and the consequent scarcity of artworks. As this sounds familiar to me, excluding the masterpieces of course, I want to take his side. But who cares about the time! I don't tolerate this tyranny that 'gets in the middle of things', it's contrary to my nature; I hate watches deeply, and I mean it. There is probably a story to explain this hatred. My grandmother, who took care of me, had been a pioneer railway tool booth, who at very strict times, had to lower the bars, manually, for the passage of the train, and in this she was equipped by the state railways, with a precious precision clock, treated with great reverence, until the end of her days. So the family life depended on it, in addition to the life of passers-by, protected by bars; pratically infusing me with the concept of the extreme precision of time, she transmitted to me the nightmare that one minute made the difference between life and death. Unacceptable for a child like me, this kind of daily concern. Then when I was younger, I discovered Proust, like many others, starting from the passage of the madeleines, but when I read how he describes his friend Block, invited to lunch, I fell madly in love without conditions: Block talks about the watch and the umbrella, in an admirable way: in the first book of the Recherche. I also dedicated a painting on paper to this passage. All right! I already hear who replies... 'Animals and all in nature, don't waste time, in their stricted biological cycles, they always arrive absolutely on time for the appointments of their life', yes, but we humans have been cheerfully dissociated from nature since that time! So we don't do text and we don't respect the rule. After these premises, I am naturally pushed to value the relativity of time, as it is in the scientific field: space-time, parallel universes, the multivers, space-time bubbles, the horizon of events, time that stops. Ah! The last yes I like it! Il dipinto è intelaiato su un normale telaio in legno con la sua tela e sopra a questo è tirato il dipinto in seta. T.M. si riferisce ad un artista famoso, pluripremiato, che non voglio scomodare, perchè non importa; semplicemente si dice: - tra la sua prima opera e la seconda (due capolavori) sono intercorsi vent'anni' e la critica è subito pronta a sottolineare questa 'anomalia' e la conseguente scarsità di opere. Siccome questo mi suona famigliare, escluso i capolavori naturalmente, voglio prendere le sue difese. Ma chi se n'importa del tempo! Questa tirannia che 'si mette in mezzo alle cose" non la tollero; è contraria alla mia natura; odio gli orologi profondamente, e dico sul serio. Probabilmente c'è una storia per spiegare questo odio. Mia nonna, che si occupava di me, era stata una giovane pioniera- casellante ferroviaria, che ad orari rigidissimi doveva abbassare le sbarre, per il passaggio del treno, e per questo era dotata di un orologio di precisione, pregiato e trattato con estrema riverenza, fino alla fine dei suoi giorni. Così la vita famigliare dipendeva da lui, oltre alla vita dei passanti, protetti dalle sbarre; praticamente nell'infondermi il concetto della precisione estrema del tempo, mi ha trasmesso un incubo, che un minuto faceva la differenza tra la vita e la morte. Del tutto inaccettabile per una bambina come me, questo tipo di sollecitudine quotidiana. Poi da ragazza ho scoperto Proust, come tanti, a partire dal brano delle madeleines; ma quando ho letto come descrive l'amico Block, invitato a pranzo, mi sono innamorata perdutamente senza condizioni: Block parla dell'orologio e dell'ombrello in modo mirabile, si trova nel primo libro della Recherche; ho dedicato poi un dipinto su carta a questo passo. Va bene! Sento già qualcuno che dice: ' Gli animali e tutta la natura non perdono tempo, nei loro cicli biologici ferrei; arrivano sempre assolutamente in tempo agli appuntamenti della loro vita; ma noi umani è da un pezzo che ci siamo allegramente dissociati dalla natura, quindi non facciamo testo, siamo fuori dalla regola. Dopo queste premesse, io sono naturalmente spinta a valorizzare la relatività del tempo, com'è in ambito scientifico: lo spazio-tempo, gli universi paralleli, il multiverso, le bolle spazio temporali, l'orizzonte degli eventi, il tempo che si arresta Ah! l'ultimo sì che mi piace

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Painting:Acrylic on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.6 W x 21.7 H x 0.8 D in

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Mara lives and works in Italy in the province of Modena. She began to paint with determination from 1980 to 1995, continuing to study piano; doing some exhibits, personal and collective. She then resumed continuously from 2008. She didn't follow a formal artistic education , but her natural eclectic spirit, led her to express herself as spans a range of media including: installations of leaves-painted sculptures; words on silk panels; ceramic pots; pillow-talking objects; large oil paintings. Her colors are bright, bold, colorful and sunny; her style ranges from expressionism-abstract to figurative-revisited, maintaining a constant freedom of expression over time. She has exhibited in Italy and since 2018 has some collectors in the U.S. Extended history Over the years, I still continue to research and experiment with the same spirit of the beginnings, and now also with a deeper psychic awareness, about creativity: 'Keeping the creative current clear' (C.P.Estés). The subject matter of my work is often poetry and literature, that inspire me to represent, in different ways, some poetic compositions; but also songs, words, quotations, everything which captures me in one casual moment. My themes are: love, nature, feelings, sensations, thoughts. It leads me to a certain libertarian spirit, that aside from reflecting my indole, it born from the passion for Surrealism, understood as a philosophy of life: "poetry, art, love... the surrealist game..., the principle of pleasure on reality..." (Arturo Schwarz, Milano 2009). Reading A. Schwarz, I noticed that the artists I had always loved, all had a common thread leading to Surrealism. Apollinaire, J. Mirò, G.Moreau, Kandinsky, Chagall, Duchamp, they are all among the precursors of the Surrealism. I express myself in different ways: as painting lotus leaves with oil colour; or painting on large canvas portraits; representing a surrealistic poetry with dream images, a bit abstract and a bit ricognizable shape. I also like silk and make many collages with it, in mixed media; or even to create real 'talking cushions' in silk, like art objects that hide their sense in a literary story, to be discovered, inside them, just like ' surrealistic game'. I also like inks and water colour, used in informal style, but always representing a theme, a title, a wrote word, one formal element at least.

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