Video: Painful girls in Margherita Manzelli's drawings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In early April, paintings by Italian artist Margarita Manzelli appeared on display at the Greengrassi Gallery in London. The artist draws from memory the girls whom she had come across on the street before. With the help of strangers, Manzelli conveys his inner state. The universe that is reflected in her works is mesmerizing, since the main characters of the paintings evoke both admiration and sympathy.
With her drawings, the artist tries to express her own vision of the surrounding world and, possibly, her place in it. Each of her works reflects the same plot. Manzelli draws a girl with sharp facial features isolated from the rest of the people. The threadlike bodies of the main characters smoothly flow into thin thin legs, emphasizing the amorphousness and elusiveness of these unearthly creatures.
Restoring from the memory of the girls whom she once saw on the street, the artist changes the original proportions and gives their figures only the necessary features of the human body. The languid heroines of Margarita Manzelli's paintings, despite the painful pallor of her face, retain their inner vitality. These girls are seized by the longing that tends to manifest itself in women at any stage of their lives.
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