Painting, in many ways, seems to be lived by Francesca Gargano as an
instrument for exploration and automatic transcription of an inner reality
beyond the limits of the disappearance of the shapes. Painting becames a
device for the analysis and echo-sounding that the artist uses to establish
relationship between the real and imaginary world.
First of all, this device investigates the potential capacity of the painter to
penetrate the shape and reality of things, beyond their shape and
appearance and things of reality.
Therefore, Ms Gargano's painting becomes a real instrument
of self-knowledge.
(Mario De Candia)
An artist who had a dazzling start to her career as a water-colour artist, with
a series of paintings representing the "diary of a pulsating need without
bounds" as written by Mario De Candia - Ms Gargano arrived at this phase
of her work to a more meditated and relaxed discussion. The colours and
shapes evoke a reality in movement, a primordial and magmatic universe
inhabited by immaginary, surreal figures, of crazed cells, of fragments
arranged on the canvas like splinters of meteorites or like dumbstruck
elements and astonishing marine abysses.
(Giuseppe Neri)
The artist has reached an estremely agile, lyrical liberation of her own
pulsating movements, this achieving a definite approach and a delightful
mark of an informal kind, with expanses of daubs lightly supported by
woven lattices in which the play of reds, whites and blue-balacks bathe the
space like contagious liquid between a slight malaise and immaginative
lucidity of colour strokes something reminiscent of Rorschach's palettes,
somehow devoid of anv Harshness and clinical restlessness, but animated
by a light touch of play and transparency.
(Mano Lunetta)
Her surrealism is the result of inspiration, of a tense desise to keep from
any possible rationalistic rigours, the sensual sign, and transgression with
which Francesca Gargano interprets the unpredictable and disquieting
world of nature as a genesis and development of the human condition. The
fascination of this search lies in the "surprise" of the results that the artist
- with knowing irony, but also dramatic trepidation - gives herself and others:
an exultation of dreams sunk in the infinite voracity of existence.
(Vito Riviello)
Ms Gargano's pictures show an interior tunnel leading out of the canvas, a
mixture of representation of the psychic and the body. Hers is a kind of
undersea painting that penetrates the intimate waters of feminity.
(Giuseppe Selvaggi)
Francesca Gargano lives and works in Rome. She paints mainly in acrilyc, distemper and water-colours. The following critics have written about her: Vito Apuleo, Mario De Candia, Rodolfo Di Biasio, Mario Lunetta, Dante Maffia, Giuseppe Neri, Giorgio Agnisola, Plinio Perilli, Claudio Rendina, Vito Riviello, Giuseppe Selvaggi.
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