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The paintings exhibited, imbued with metalinguistic content, question the pictorial act and its existence within the space, starting from the elemental presence of the brushstroke. Within the paintings the gestural is constantly redefined, questioning the logic that sees in juxtaposition the opposed categories of the abstract and the immanent, the mobile and the representational, the premeditated and the intuitive.

The creative process adopted by Marta Mancini can be extremely lengthy, often subject to stalls and unexpected openings, before embracing its conclusive outcomes. Once finalised, …