Original artwork description:

Frammenti
Pastel on Paper (Fabriano Elle)
100x70 cm
2023
Original Art


Marilina Marchica's research delves into the relationship between Man and Nature and the emotional implications of the relationship between human and dwelling. In this research, the landscape is the protagonist. People today rule over 75% of the land not covered by ice, which has led to modifying and shaping places, ignoring the life-giving forces of nature. The attempts of modern people to appropriate the environment that hosts them are many. The large cities increasingly resemble non-places, complicating the relationship between man and nature that hosts him, but then, in turn, man hosts gardens and parks in cities that are nothing more than reproductions of nature itself, artificially limiting natural spaces through fences. By drawing borders between countries, people build their own houses and cities without consideration of the consequences. The meaning of inhabiting is of a self within a space, but it is also living in that space by shaping it and molding oneself to the space itself. To inhabit is to shape spaces to the extent that we also take our own shape from those spaces.


Bio

Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2008
she trained with Luca Caccioni, Giovanni Mundula and Adriano Bacilieri. Marilina Marchica focuses her research on the theme of subtraction and the aesthetics of the sign.
Her pictorial investigation goes to the limit of abstraction thanks to a reflection on architecture and, in particular, on the wall as an internal / external diaphragm and a metaphor for the relationships between man, nature and time.
The architectures take on a symbolic value in relation to collapses and demolitions and impose themselves as a metaphor for a universal and existential dimension.
Marilina Marchica has been the protagonist of various personal exhibitions such as those promoted by the FAM Gallery in Agrigento, San Sebastiano Contemporary - Casa Bramante in Palazzolo Acreide, Spazio HUS in Milan.
In addition to the site-specific intervention designed for the crypt of the Church of Santa Maria del Piliere in Palermo, we recall the participation in the 2nd edition of the FAM Award - Fabbriche Chiaramontane in Agrigento and in the artist residence at Villa Aurea - Valle dei Templi, promoted by the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage of Agrigento.
In 2021 she was invited to participate in the project "Visioni Oblique, Artist's Books, Object Books, Phototexts for the Belice".
Marilina Marchica's works have been published in sector magazines and volumes such as "The New Collectors Book" (New York, 2015) and are present in public and private collections in Italy and
foreign countries, including the Chiaramontane factories of Agrigento and the Museum of Mediterranean Weaves Fondazione Orestiadi of Gibellina.

Materials used:

pastels

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