Monica Mazzone: A Truth That Can Only Be Approached. By Nicola Semprini Cesari
- Studio la Linea Verticale
- Mar 14
- 3 min read
We are pleased to share the text by Nicola Semprini Cesari for the upcoming exhibition that, from March 20 to May 8, 2025, will enrich the spaces of Studio la Linea Verticale. Body-Broken-Bodies, a solo exhibition by Monica Mazzone, brings together a series of previously unseen works created specifically for the occasion, in which the artist delves into the tension between balance and fragility, abstraction and presence, logic and spirituality.
An art founded on the universal language of geometric figures—the essence of a rationality to which the artist entrusts the task of formalizing the rules that must order the flow of emotions and guide the creative impulse toward perfect, absolute forms, “which encapsulate both essence and the essential—an obsession that cannot be explained.” Geometric images of an unknowable truth.
A truth that can only be approached—a tension contained in the curvature of lines, in their convergence into impossible angles, propelling static figures from the plane into dynamic structures in space. This creates a figurative language suspended between painting and sculpture, between the contingent nature of the body and emotions and the absoluteness of the space that hosts them and the laws that govern them.
A poetics that is intrinsically dialectical, achieving synthesis in the absoluteness of forms—one that finds its deepest justification in Euclid’s Elements, enlivened by Pythagorean mysticism. A geometric language that, even in ancient Greek thought, was already considered the path to truth.
The treatment of forms relies on descriptive geometry, which brings mathematical rigor to the experiences of Renaissance perspective and the subsequent Mannerist quadraturismo. Thus, orthogonal projections deconstruct structures into their elementary forms, later reorganized into impossible yet rational perspectives, in perfect accordance with the canon established by the artist.
Even the conception of color is geometric. Applied in rarefied glazes and confined within a chromatic range spanning from green/yellow to violet/purple—extreme and complementary poles of a dualism that informs the artist’s entire oeuvre—color takes on strong symbolic and psychological significance.
Green represents an inner state of balance and stability, of immanent action, drawing its meaning from the harmony of nature in its eternal renewal.Violet, by contrast, embodies an inner state of tension and transformation, emotional contrast, transcendent action—a color inextricably linked to spirituality and mystery by both Symbolism and Surrealism.Blue, the natural intermediary between green and violet, represents the ideal intersection of these colors, the overcoming of their dialectical opposition in the unity and universality of synthesis.
Finally, the ambivalence of gray—able to either emit or absorb light—becomes “the musical equivalent of a pause, the color of shadows,” assuming the role of evoking space, revealing the three-dimensionality of forms.
The result is a series of evocative creations which, despite the rigor of their language, set the viewer’s imagination free, allowing each observer to reinterpret them through the uniqueness of their own way of ‘seeing’ space.
Nicola Semprini Cesari
Vernissage:
The opening will take place on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Event details:
Title: Body-Broken-Bodies
Artist: Monica Mazzone
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, 4 PM – 8 PM. Morning hours and other days by appointment.
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