Beyond the Black by Gigi Mariani

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Gigi Mariani

Our lives are filled with good and -unfortunately- sad events, of taken and not taken roads. Events imprint movements, trajectories, derailments, and choices. They force us to embrace changes, to consider new perspectives, to seek new directions, to discover new landscapes, to take into account new points of view and to expand our awareness. For an artist, whose personal life is inevitably bound together with his/her artistic research, the twists and the turns of life mark those changes that the community of art historians and art critics define as “periods”.  Think, for example, to Picasso’s Blue and Pink periods or about the importance of the visit to the Park Güell for Niki de Saint-Phalle…
Each “artistic period” is a fundamental mark along the path of artistic research: it is a point of no return for personal research and yet, a starting point able to provide new sources of inspiration for what will come after.
So, there is always a “before” and an “after”…and a “beyond”.


Excerpt of the Interview What Lies Beyond. A talk with Gigi Mariani by Nichka Marobin.
>> Please read the complete interview where the artist and the art historian talk about the new works presented at Hannah Gallery.