Mare dolente by Angela Margherita Leotta

Artwork Description

Original title of the artwork: Mare dolente / Sorrowful Sea

Angela Margherita Leotta distorts the world, reduces it to what is primitive and essential: movement, energy, heat, color. It wears these colors, it changes its walls that from straight becomes darting, crooked and sudden, bends, moves. Her strong figures move in an undefined space. The gaunt, hollowed out, suffering faces scream the restlessness of the "Joan of Arc" who painted them. It is as if the fire that flows in Angela's veins, as she manages to make it flow like volcano lava, on the works she paints. Fire that purifies and restores Life. Rebirth, resilience, justice, for whom justice did not have. Those millions of bodies that the sea has sucked up helpless. Those souls who were just looking for a new world. A hope of revenge. The survivors scream, as in the famous painting by Edvard Munch, in all their pain. Symbolic synthesis of human suffering.