Maria Murgia - Laetitia Casta

The work draws on a Pop aesthetic in its use of iconic images, linked to the worlds of fashion and entertainment. Pop Art emerged in the United States in the second half of the 20th century as a result of artists' interest in and critique of the contemporary "consumer society." All expressions of Pop Art presuppose a sort of double bond with the world of consumerism and mass media. On the one hand, the artwork is reduced to a mere consumer product, thanks to the use of advertising language in the works and their serial reproduction through mechanical processes. Maria Murgia's work draws on a Pop aesthetic in its use of icons from mass culture and its reflection on the possibility of serial reproduction of artworks, developing innovative techniques based on her experience with digital technologies.

Maria Murgia's research has resulted in the creation of an original, aesthetically relevant, and conceptually coherent artwork. Her portraits are composed of a mosaic of digital images. Symbolically, they are moments, fragments of life that shape a personality. In the age of digital photography, Maria Murgia recontextualizes the concepts of pop icon and its serial reproduction.

Maria Murgia is an artist originally from Ossi, Sardinia, where she was born in 1935. Since 1974, she has lived in La Spezia, where she was the director of a nursery school. It was during those years that her passion for art began. Her first exhibition was held in 1975 at "Studio 13." The following year, it was at the "Sagittarius" gallery in Terni. She also participated several times in the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. In the 1980s, Maria Murgia participated in numerous art fairs in Italy and abroad.

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