Almost metaphors of the human being, Maria Paola Grifone's Nature Vive are forms that contain and accommodate: a game of full and empty that reflects... Read more

and modifies the space around it, and that intertwines with the interplay of compositional spaces in her pictorial field. The choice of black and white becomes necessary in order to enhance the contrast between these plastic absolutes, which symbolically embody the light and shadow of human nature; the combination of Indian ink and photographic paper brings together two opposing ways of working: on the one hand the challenge towards the control of gesture and form, and on the other the management of error and the unexpected that inevitably occurs; it is from this potential for unpredictability that everyday objects become mysterious and enigmatic. Close