From March 20 to May 8, 2025, Studio la Linea Verticale presents Body-Broken-Bodies, a solo exhibition by Monica Mazzone, accompanied by a critical text by Nicola Semprini Cesari. The exhibition brings together a series of new works created specifically for the occasion, in which the artist explores the tension between balance and precariousness, abstraction and presence, logic and spirituality.
Winner of the VAF Stiftung Prize 2024, Mazzone was recently featured in a solo room as part of the finalist exhibition at the Mart Museum in Rovereto, which concluded on February 9.
Monica Mazzone’s artistic practice is rooted in an act of concrete abstraction, where logical thought and spiritual tension converge into a synthesis capable of expanding the perception of the visible toward the absolute. In Body-Broken-Bodies, each form appears to emerge as a manifestation of an invisible law, an archetypal order hidden beneath the surface of matter. The very title of the exhibition suggests a condition of structural fragility, a latent tension that runs through the works, pushing them toward a necessary disintegration for the construction of a new equilibrium.
Mazzone’s research is based on a constant dialectic between immanence and transcendence, where the body becomes the unit of measure through which the universe is understood. The artist begins with the direct experience of her own physicality, translating bodily proportions into geometric structures that arrange themselves in space as paradigms of a higher order. This is not merely a formal exercise but an act of knowledge that takes on the character of active contemplation. The body, in its concrete dimension, rises as an instrument of revelation, capable of translating individual experience into a universal grammar.
Geometry thus becomes a vehicle for mystical thought, where form carries a spiritual tension that pushes matter toward a precarious balance. The object of vision is the universal through which one may contemplate the absolute, the artist writes in her notes, revealing how each work arises from the desire to establish a direct dialogue with the immaterial principle that underlies visible reality. Mazzone's structures present themselves as suspended entities, bodies poised between being and becoming, between apparent stability and a latent possibility of collapse.
The tension between order and disintegration translates into an incessant search for balance, in which form offers itself as a provisional result of a dynamic force. The sharp edges, impossible twists, and precarious balances of the works seem to suggest an intrinsic fragility, a vulnerability that manifests as a necessary condition for access to a higher dimension. Fracture, rather than representing a limit, is configured as a generative principle, a moment of opening through which the visible disintegrates to reveal the invisible.
The vitality of representation emerges in the works' ability to embody a dual nature: static and dynamic, presence and absence, matter and spirit. Each structure offers itself as a threshold, a space of transition in which vision expands beyond the boundaries of matter. The experience of form thus transforms into an act of contemplation, a silent dialogue with the absolute in which the spiritual eye opens to the possibility of a new harmony.
In this process, the artist assumes an attitude free from intentions, abandoning any desire for control to allow form to generate as a spontaneous manifestation of an inner law. The disintegration of the visible then becomes a metaphor for a process of enlightenment, where universal happening reveals itself as an incessant dialogue between the finite and the infinite. Body-Broken-Bodies is the attempt to inhabit this threshold, to pause at the point where fragility transforms into generative force, where the broken body opens to the possibility of a new vision.
Studio la Linea Verticale
Event details:
Title: Body-Broken-Bodies
Artist: Monica Mazzone
Critical text: Nicola Semprini Cesari
Duration: March 20 – May 8, 2025
location: Studio la Linea Verticale, via dell’Oro 4b, Bologna
Regular hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM. Morning hours and other days by appointment.
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