Parole al vento
2011
54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2011 / Italian Pavillion in the World, Arsenale, Venezia and Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles
HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
by Patrizia Mania
critic / curator / art historian
A curtain of lecterns brings together pages written with natural elements - bundles of shrubs, butterflies, birds - combining the story in images with fragments of nature in a poetic translation that is inscribed between the autobiographical and the fictionalized biography of a generation that has seen in Jack Kerouac and in his “On the road” the text, the narration, the existence in which to reflect. Here too the theme of mirroring dominates, declined as a reflection, reflection on writing, on narrated memory and on the footprints that traveling, walking along roads, crossing places, inevitably entails. The staging here, the showcase of texts and images becomes the mirror of a desire to question oneself and others on the distances crossed, on the paths taken in a horizon that keeps alive the desire to innocently scrutinize the world outside of us. Luigia Martelloni’s poverist matrix is thus innervated by a frequent component in her work corresponding to a search for authenticity in the complexity that becomes mainstream of her entire work.