Riccarda Pagnozzato
by the author

"Dressing Effigies" is the last step, over time, of research that has, for years, occupied the author of this "poker" and made her to dig - an almost archaeological job - in the churches of Venice to find, take photographs of and document the existence of antique "Madonnas to be dressed". To this passionate research, Pagnozzato the artist could not omit adding her own, so by using photomontage and the computer on some pictures, she realised the twelve colour photographs that form this volume: strong evocations of antique images of pagan origin together with stylistic features of expressionist art. The "poker", entirely by Riccarda Pagnozzato, is completed with her text and accompanied by some documentary photos. She also suggests an itinerary, which allows us to visit the places where the "dressed Madonnas" are at the moment.

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Maria Lai - Salvatore Cambosu

by Vittoria Surian

Stories, one knows, are age-old wisdom passed down to us: and it is through a story that the authors of this "poker" speak to us about the art that corresponds to a voice buried deep down in every human being. The main character of Salvatore Cambosu's story, who inspired Maria Lai to realise her graphic story, is called Maria Pietra. Arturo Martini - whose student Maria Lai was - said that in nature, stones are the most beautiful and reassuring shapes; the meaning of becoming a stone is, therefore, that of putting oneself past time; in Cuore-mio Cambosu reveals his search for the primordial.

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Elisa Montessori

by Maria Luisa Minio-Paluello

The double name Elisa Montessori - Dorothy Parker means the hidden truth of irony and self-irony, the pitilessness and clearness of the poetical language with the scratch of her mark and the delicacy of the colour, researching a sentimental and passionate geography. Dorothy is acute, pitiless and sad, elegant and disdainful, subtle and melancholic; the bond which forms in Elisa Montessori's "lateral" drawing is of a mimetic and paradox nature, as much as her mark is strong and fleeting at the same time, the colour is watery and veiled. Reciprocal postponement generates friendship.

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Marina Sasso

by the author

Time marking life, variations in what is to come, rhythm drawing space crossed by light, these are constants in Marina Sasso's works, a sculptor and etcher. The pages of this book tell of the harmony with the imaginary that M. Cvetaeva's words express, whilst they reflect the emotion aroused in reading them. "…Turning the visible into slavery to serve the invisible…" writes Cvetaeva in "The Poet and Time" and art makes visible what is not visible. This is where the concreteness of the image originates, the construction of these pages thinking of the sculpture, of the materials which make up its shape and colour, of the rhythm as wide as the breaking wave.

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