NYAB Event - Stefania Mainardi Exhibition

Stefania Mainardi Exhibition

Broadway Gallery

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Putting Renaissance sculptures at the forefront of her paintings, Mainardi’s work turns these ancient characters into the paintings’ primary subject-matter, making them the focal points in piece. Painted in such an attentive, detailed way these painted statues possess a vitality that makes them appear closer to life. Finding those warm tones in the ordinarily cold marble sometimes gives the viewer a way to find a slight flush in that silent stone and maybe even imagine a pulse underneath that still surface. In other pieces where the facial features and the entire head are not there, just the central part of the body, there seems to be the opposite effect; a reinforcement of the fact that this is a statue being viewed. The proud, staged poise of the figures reiterates the its theatrical intent and unreal presence. Regardless of the varying characters vivacity, there is something in the broader picture that ties all of the artist’s pieces under her own aesthetic.