Monica Marioni - I am

The iconography of this painting certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as Symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject that can be traced back to the artistic language of late-nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, and Puvis des Chavannes, who, while using a primarily figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references. Still within the realm of late-nineteenth-century idealist Symbolism, in a context similar to the decadent climate of that era, there seems to be a certain affinity between the subjects created by Monica Marioni and those of the German painter Franz von Stuck. Indeed, the two artists share the same intent to represent human perversions and vices by uniting the human figure with the animal in a sort of mutation.

The strong symbolist-decadent influences that inform Monica Marioni's artistic research, which depicts the inner deformations of the human being through external deformations, are embodied in this painter with a thoroughly contemporary and personal reinterpretation. Monica Marioni's representation is based on a figurative language and, thanks to her excellent technique, achieves an almost hyperrealistic naturalism of the human body. However, her style is influenced by several distinctly contemporary influences, starting with those of photography and cinema, in the effective way the image is set: the subject emerges from the darkness, revealed by the light, in a theatrical black and white. Furthermore, Monica Marioni's pictorial technique is highly complex, almost undoing the forms, filling them with existential vibrations, and is undoubtedly influenced by a gestural quality typical of the Expressionist movements of the second half of the 20th century.

Monica Marioni was born in Treviso in 1972, but lives and works in the Vicenza area. She was drawn to the art world early on, and through work for a large industrial group, she developed a strong connection to the material. This is evident in her early works, exhibited in solo shows at Palazzo Contarini-Fasan in Venice and at Yvonne Artecontemporanea in Vicenza in 2007. This was followed by solo shows in the United States at the Carlo Livi Gallery in Miami and the Poltrona Frau Showroom in Washington DC, both in 2008, and in Rome, Capri, and Vicenza again between 2008 and 2009. At the end of 2008, she was awarded the First Fiorino d'Oro Prize for Painting in Florence. A major retrospective exhibition was held in 2009 at the Museo De Arte Italiana in Lima, as part of the Italy-Peru economic-cultural forum. In the summer of the same year, he was invited to create a monumental work for Detournement Venise, a collateral event at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. In 2011, at the closing of the 53rd Venice Art Biennale, the artist reflected on the controversial Italian Pavilion and the reality of the contemporary Italian art scene, creating the installation "E' l'arte italiana oggi GOATS! GOATS!! GOATS!!!".
In 2012 she was the protagonist of the IO SONO project, created in Milan at the Stelline Foundation and curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Oliver Orest Tschirky, where the work in question was also exhibited.

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