Beatrice Meoni shows her new works, on the phenomenon of tarantism, at Cardelli & Fontana

Fever is the title of the new solo exhibition by Beatrice Meoni (Florence, 1960), one of the most interesting painters on the national scene, who from June 24 to September 3, 2023 at the Cardelli & Fontana gallery in Sarzana presents her recent production, a body of work that has as its common thread the phenomenon of tarantism, which in theintersectionality of its meanings gives her the opportunity to graze and traverse an intricate web of connections with nature, insects, bodies, magic, collective rites, folk traditions and dance. These are works that mark most distinctly that gradual evolution that is investing his practice.

In the same way as the tarantulas who once a year acted outside the established order, wildly, compulsively and hysterically expressing their anxieties, Beatrice upsets the order of her pictorial language (the one she has accustomed us to), to show what previously remained buried in her psyche.

These paintings portray her whole world, revealing it in its apparent chaoticness. They are, in fact, not just representations of objects, but paintings-confessions, self-portraits of the artist in the form of compositions of small things that populate the size of the painting in an increasingly overbearing way. They are objects and images hinge between the inside and the outside, coming from the past and the present, from words, memories, desires, things and bodies. Small souvenirs, shoes, banana peels, kitchen tools, newspaper clippings, books, notes and paper dolls find their own dimension and voice.

Thus, a metaphysics of reality makes its way into Beatrice Meoni’s works, where painting is the interpretation and emergence of personal and collective experience, which is given in its physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions. "Fever,“ writes Beatrice Meoni, ”like that which shakes the bodies of the Apulian women bitten by the taranta, like that which moves the painter in his making, the painter for whom painting is authentically a way of life."

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Image: Beatrice Meoni, Taranta silente (2023; oil on panel, 35 x 45 cm)

Beatrice Meoni shows her new works, on the phenomenon of tarantism, at Cardelli & Fontana

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