Mazzoleni is pleased to announce its participation at ART DUBAI 2023 with a booth entirely dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Marinella Senatore (b. 1977) with a selection of never-before-seen light sculptures and collages.
Marinella Senatore is one of the most internationally celebrated Italian artists, whose practice takes shape in a plurality of linguistic solutions. She has worked in 23 different countries and her artworks and 'collective actions' are exhibited and commissioned by numerous international institutions. The artist's distinctive use of vernacular images, processes, and forms as social and relational poetics is found throughout her practice as well as in her linguistic choices.
Senatore's artworks—outcome of collective reflections from the artist's community-based work—call for contemplation and action with empowering quotes sourced from arts and literature as well as social contexts and popular traditions, as for example We Rise By Lifting Others—one of her light sculptures on display—which suggests a sense of individual and collective belonging, foregrounding an urgent need for empowerment, emancipation and affection. The works are created using LED and mercury-free neon lights, on recycled plastic supports; as a socially engaged activist, sustainability is crucial to Senatore, who has been committed to lowering the carbon-print of her practice for the last few years.
Light is a fundamental component in the artist's multidisciplinary practice: material and metaphorical, light is used for narrating and creating poetry, a tool for resistance or cohesion. 'Light structures generate energy, which, in the form of luminous beams, propagates through space, changing it and altering structures as well as the individuals populating it', the artist states.
In her collages, Senatore contemplates universal themes and social issues, using materials from her archive: photographs, memories of installations or public actions, musical scores, botanical images, and texts: her research is always based on participation and on the transformative power of social engagement and community activation.
Press release courtesy Mazzoleni.