ITALIAN STYLE

BY

MONICA CASALI

 

259 Bleecker Street (cross strett Cornelia st.)

New York, 10014 NY

Exhibition curated by Gloria Porcella and Lamberto Petrecca

Until May 30th 2011

Eclectic, exuberant and cultured are tha adjectives which best sum up the pictorial output of tha artist Monica Casali.

Her work is distinguished by a constant need for experimentation which is rewarded by fruitful work.

Casali is a young painter who loves innovation.

She aims to put herself to the test and move towards the unknown, revisiting several areas in international painting’s recent past.

She digresses with enthusiasm, brio and technical knoledge from the figurative to the abstract, from the colourless picture which takes on an almost serigraphic effect to a material clarity which detects and celebrates the intrinsic quality of materials and props used.

The themes are also inferred from several key moments of twentieth-century painting: from Pop Art reinterpreted “Italian- style” with a series dedicated to the legendary home-bred Vespa ( at the moment 60 pictures, all unique and numbered) or the world wide famous Fiat 500 , to informal and abstract, more intimist displays.

The works of Casali remind us of the surprisingly insatiable and intelligently curious nature of the artist’s being.