Two very different artists continue their exhibition at Bagni di Lucca Ponte a Seraglio’s Corona Hotel until August 13. See it while you can…it’s the last day today!
Morena Guarnaschelli, well-known for her evocative water colours of African life, has branched from her realist approach to something more symbolic. Traces of art-deco, Victorian silhouette and mandala patterns find their place in her stylistic change of pace. The linear style, the seductive curves and those esoteric hints draw one into inner reflection and supernal elegance.
My own little ciclamino mat now seems to have taken added significance…
Deenagh Miller, particularly noted for her drawings which for me suggest those studies which Italian renaissance masters would draw in preparation for their canvases, expands her impressionist-like phase with some large scale landscapes of Bagni’s stunning scenery.
Hints of Bonnard and a touch of Renoirian social world enter into such canvases as this one reminding one of typical scenes at that conversationalist hub of Bar Italia,
Could there be any more different recreation of our socio-natural world by these painters? Yet the two magisterially fluent artists come together in a celebration of life and freedom in this age so distraught by ecological and epidemiologic issues and which finds healing difficult.
Soul liberation through mandala meditation, landscape contemplation, reconnection with the human world through social intercourse, remodelling of inner consciousness, and transfiguration of conventionalities all so expertly rendered in the finest draughtsmanship and in an ecstatic blaze of colour are primal themes which unite these two creative forces which Bagnioli are privileged to host and which buoyantly help mend our own fractured universe in these strange semi-alien times.