Maria Grazia Tolino's 'Le stagioni di Persefone' at Lamina Studio

Lamina Studio in Naples presents 'Le stagioni di Persefone', a solo exhibition by Maria Grazia Tolino, on view as part of the Rassegna Prima Nave. The show reinterprets the myth of Persephone through contemporary painting, tattooing, and symbolic imagery. Tolino, a painter and tattoo artist from Campania, uses a tattoo machine to incise the Latin phrase 'nosce te ipsum' on numbered panels, referencing the Greek origin attributed to Feminoe. A central work reworks Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1874 version, depicting a defiant Persephone stepping on a pig—an allusion to Orwell's 'Animal Farm'—while a royal owl and sunflower guide her. The exhibition also features albino animal guides, references to the Ver Sacrum ritual and the Vienna Secession, and two fictional magazines: one dedicated to a Milanese tattoo artist specializing in Japanese tattooing, showing a Daruma doll; the other to teachers as 'kamikaze of knowledge', with pink flowers and seed-spreading planes. Tolino's tattooing practice is highlighted through photographs of floral tattoos covering scars, transforming wounds into ornament. The show integrates music as an invisible guide throughout the space.