Maria Morganti. Procedere trasformandosi rimanendo

Exhibition conceived for spaces of Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea gallery of Venice, on view from November 16, 2012 to February 12, 2013.

"Proceeding, Transforming Oneself, Remaining."

I think through painting. I am transformed whilst remaining inside: inside a space, inside a procedure, moving from one painting to another, from one point to another.

Six paintings of equal size, painted between 1996 and 2011, depict a journey, the transition period of a particular moment in my work: the moment when moving between the superimpositions and the sedimentations.

At first the body expands, taking up space, leaving traces of its movement and defining a large central “figure” on the canvas. Then the "figures" multiply. They are superimposed and slowly stratified, covering almost the entire surface until they reach complete correspondence. Then the horizon gradually rises and compresses everything towards the top of the painting. This is where the process of sedimentation, which has continued for over ten years, begins. It is a slow accumulation, layer after layer.