MARIA SAGONA – “EDEN”
Through “EDEN”, artist Marina Sagona puts the emphasis on the inversion of values which characterise the contemporary world: values such as love, friendship and compassion are emptied of their positive role, marginalized to give space to a new feel. The world has catapulted into a new “state of nature” in which the law of the strongest applies, and establishes a system of absolute freedom that finally becomes anarchy and a state of war.
Marina Sagona’s current works continue the discussion initiated in her previous project – the theme of which was women of the Divine Comedy – and pose a number of questions: in today’s society, how would you rate the women condemned by Dante? In today’s world, would it be considered damnation or salvation? What is the present day version of the Eden of the living?
Sagona draws us step by step into this world through her paintings, where a reversal of roles occurs: those who resided in Heaven are thrown into Hell, and vice versa with those confined to Hell able to buy one’s own indulgence and scale the circle, each time getting closer God. However, it is in the representation of earthly paradise that the next step is realised: we are no longer seeing a reversal; there are no longer two places to confine and separate both sinners and the deserving, but everything lives in the same place, everything is confused. The dividing line between what is right and what is wrong vanishes in this earthly paradise where everything looks like “Eden”.
“Sagona is an artist free from conventions who gives new light to an old form and revitalizes our relationship with images and the poem itself”.
LA NUOVA PESA – CENTRO PER L’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, from 19 to 28 October 2016 – Preview Wednesday 19 October 18:00-20:00
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