Steps and ways…

From Dialogues of Silence (Silent Dialogues) to “ About walking and ways…” there is quite a leap in Liviana’s artistic production. Four years separate the two shows: lots of days and months in the intense life of an artist…

In these four years, Liviana left behind most of those features so typical of her previous work: pure abstraction, repetitive combinations of vertical strips, naked surfaces made from different materials… She has found new ways to experiment (and enjoy), ways born from daily life and its demands, its circumstances, its questions, those same questions which human beings ask themselves since history is history and move them deeply. This is the leit-motif behind Liviana’s work.

(In our daily life, we meet often with doubts like: which decision do I make? How many obstacles will I have to overcome? How far will I have to go? How many problems will I find in my path? Which way to take if more than one is available? How to go on? These are the sort of things Liviana pushes us to think about through the titles of her works).

She has definitely abandoned her silent dialogues to start a new artistic experience based on the symbolism always to be found in our life, using human iconography as a reflection of our self.

Back in the narrative field, her naked and silent abstractions left behind, she still employs materials she cherished, like fabrics, all sort of papers, strings, collages… common in her previous work.

This new series made of small paintings (25x25) allows her to play with varied compositions combining the paintings in different ways, depending on the feeling of the moment and following an esthetical more tan a narrative line.

Here she mixes natural elements with photography and photocopies, a male figure always giving his back to the public (searching for a new path?), a repeated and anonyme female figure, sometimes hiding her face in her hands (hiding from the grey reality?), but in the end always trying to look for a way out.

This misterious couple, man and woman, is very interesting. They walk together, apparently at the same pace, seemingly out of the marked way, their silhouettes in black and white… Next to them, spirals made of strings allow us to follow the path or to spin around ourselves, trapped in the acrylic matter and abstract background…

This exhibition invites us to follow Liviana’s work and thought, led by a master hand, herself… Grey is the main color and the key of most paintings, but sometimes we find shadows of white, some red, small lights here and there, almost announcing new ways of experimentation in the future of liviana’s art.

This new works are brave and straight, and even if the artist is still hiding behind anonimity and a few hesitations, she seems decided to choose the best and brightest of the paths which open in front of her.

We must congratulate the artist for showing us a collection of works which make us think and speak out our doubts, always personal and universal at the same time.