Alina Ditot's Apocalyptic Paintings at Lucca Exhibition

Romanian painter Alina Ditot (Iași, 1980) presents a solo exhibition in Lucca, Italy, featuring large-scale works inspired by the informal art movement of the 1970s. Her canvases depict contemporary unease through modern 'triumphs of death,' with color applied in solemn, purifying flames. The paintings evoke biblical natural landscapes, often suggested by titles, and feature painful chromatic contrasts reminiscent of Robert Pinsky's gasoline rainbows. Rips and lacerations open across the surfaces, serving as metaphors for inner turmoil and the disorientation of modern individuals. Ditot hints at redemption through cosmic explosion and a new Genesis, alluded to by flashes of light in the color fields. The exhibition is curated by Niccolò Lucarelli, an international studies graduate, curator, art, theater, and jazz critic, and military history essayist. The show runs at an unspecified venue in Lucca.