COMPLETE ESSAY · PDF P. 56
Michelangiolismo irreversibile
Drawing, chiaroscuro and the human body in dialogue with Michelangelo and Adolfo De Carolis.
READ THE CONTRIBUTION ↗Words around the work.
Critical perspectives, publications and documents accompanying the painting practice.
01 / CRITICAL WRITING
Voices and interpretations.
A collection of critical perspectives spanning different phases of the work.
Critical perspectives from the archive
Titles and authors are drawn from the Aruba archive. The notes below are editorial summaries, not quotations or reproductions of the essays. When the original lists only a title, no missing content has been invented.
FROM THE ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO
Two documented critical contributions.
Both authorship and source pages have been checked against the artist’s portfolio. One complete essay and one excerpt, both by Loredana Finicelli.
CRITICAL EXCERPT · PDF P. 45
Broken Humanity
The human figure in relation to memory and the fractures of lived experience.
READ THE CONTRIBUTION ↗The contributions by Loredana Finicelli are reproduced from the artist’s portfolio, with authorship and original page references.
01 / Title and author only in the public archive
From the Body to the Sacred. From the Sacred to Human Matter
The critical archive records the title, but no complete essay could be unambiguously associated with this entry.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website02 / Title and author only in the public archive
Beyond. Human Beings
The old website lists the title and author without an independently identifiable full text for this entry.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website03 / Essay present on the earlier site
Silentium
Córdula describes the progression of the “human angels”: anatomical precision becomes inseparable from a desire for transformation, while monochrome acquires meanings of silence and light.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website04 / Title and author only in the public archive
De Humana Natura
The archive names the work and its author, but the complete text is not clearly delineated as a separate essay.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website05 / Title and author only in the public archive
Monaldi and Reality
This contribution appears by title and author. The authorship of some following unlabelled passages requires comparison with the original document.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website06 / Essay present on the earlier site
Reality or Non-Reality
The essay considers the figure, masks, inward experience and consciousness. Spiritual enquiry is read as an unresolved tension, while floral imagery is connected to fragility.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website07 / Essay present on the earlier site
Novae vanitates
This text reads bodies and flowers as forms suspended between nature and symbol, connecting chiaroscuro and polished surfaces to the historical theme of vanitas.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous website08 / Essay present on the earlier site
Out of the Dark
The critic brings portraiture and floral motifs into dialogue. Bodies and stems share a pictorial language of desire, emerging from darkness and a nocturnal atmosphere.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous websiteTwo signed contributions by Loredana Finicelli from the artist’s portfolio are presented above; other critical entries are represented by their archival descriptions.
Source: archive of the artist’s previous websiteARTIST’S VOICE / ORIGINAL TEXTS
READ THE ARTIST’S WRITINGS ↗Words by Marco Monaldi.
Alongside the critics’ essays, the portfolio includes the artist’s reflections on Broken Humanity and poetic writing associated with nine works. Read them on the project page, with references to the original Italian sources.
03 / CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
Catalogues and publications
Covers follow the exhibition chronology, from most recent to oldest. Dates refer to exhibitions rather than necessarily to catalogue publication; undated documents appear last.
Catalogues, books and calendars
Exhibition invitations and documents
The Silentium catalogue (Rome, 2013) is distinct from the original exhibition invitation.
04 / PRESS COVERAGE
Press coverage
05 / EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING
Art and publishing.
Treccani
The educational publishing collaboration brings together freehand drawing, geometric construction and art history.
EXPLORE TEACHING ↗Sources: historic Aruba critical archive and Marco Monaldi Portfolio, PDF pages 45 and 56. The eight Aruba index notes remain editorial summaries; the two portfolio texts are separately identified with their source.
PRESS & FURTHER READING
A conversation about the work.
For editorial enquiries, critical perspectives, interviews or materials related to the projects, please contact the artist directly.
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