Luisa Rabbia and Emma Hart at Collezione Maramotti: Silence and Noise

The Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia presents a dual exhibition featuring Luisa Rabbia and Emma Hart. Rabbia's "Love" is a ten-year survey of works on paper and canvas, including a site-specific piece and an artist's book. Born in Pinerolo in 1970, her introspective imagery evolves from the 2009 figurative work "From the Within" depicting sleeping migrants as evasion, to post-2011 canvases defined by thin blue and red lines resembling blood vessels. "I Want to Be There, Too" (2015) evokes Munch's "The Scream" with a crowd of fingerprints as anonymous individuals exchanging energy. The titular "Love," part of the Love-Birth-Death trilogy, portrays two bodies in an embrace traversed by a single spine of arteries, compared by Mario Diacono to a sefirotic tree. Hart, winner of the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women, presents "Mamma Mia!" adapted for the venue after a six-month residency in Italy (Milan, Todi, Rome, Faenza). Her ceramic head-shaped vessels, influenced by the Milanese Systemic Approach, Elena Ferrante's novels, and maiolica technique, explore frustration and contemporary societal confusion. While Rabbia's works are silent, Hart's are noisy and neurotic.