On display at the Marino Marini Museum are the sculptures of Louise Manzon

From July 8 to September 8, 2019, sculptures by French-Brazilian artist Louise Manzon will be on display at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence, Italy, for the exhibition Aion.

Protagonists of the exhibition will be sculptures of female figures covered with poor materials, such as iron wires, fragments of wire mesh, ceramic shards, but crowned as true queens. They are female archetypes bearers of life, of struggles faced in history, cultures, religions, and geographies that hold dreams and hopes. Indeed, Louise Manzon’s art exalts the imagery of woman as “guardian of the creative principle and mother of transcendent and absolute time.”

The concept of Aion is likened to the perennial process of migration; thus, it representseternity, time that begins again incessantly, with no real beginning and no real end.

Louise Manzon’s art has always dealt with the theme of the female condition, vitality, natural environments, the pitfalls that threaten them, and the hope of their salvation. Her figures hark back to the archetypes of Greco-Roman mythology.

The evolution to the themes of life, the ’environment, the sea and the human condition leads the artist to give a personal and sorrowful reading of the drama of migration, through clothed female figures, covered with poor materials: barbed iron wires, fragments of wire nets, ceramic splinters, rags. Her art and expressiveness is joined to the ideals of an abused world and environment, but seeking redemption and improvement in the ’hope of a better life and existence.

Among the works on display are Souls in Waiting, thirteen ceramic sculptures representing death, transformation and rebirth; Illusory Dualism, where the woman in the distance appears in a precious dress that, seen up close, is instead bristling with nails. Finally, The Trap, like the water that traps bodies during the sea crossing in the migration process.

For info: www.museomarinomarini.it

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Image: Louise Manzon, The Trap

On display at the Marino Marini Museum are the sculptures of Louise Manzon

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