Nazzarena Poli Maramotti

The exhibition offers an engaging journey into Nazzarena Poli Maramotti (Montecchio, Reggio Emilia, 1987) artistic universe, including canvases, ceramics, papers and objets trouvés, conveying all the complexity and vitality of her pictorial research to the visiting public.

It provides an overview of the work of the Reggio Emilia-based artist, who has always focused on the theme of landscape: a genre that dialogues with the history of modern art while being renewed through a personal archive of photographs, clippings, papers and visual materials transformed by the passing of time.

From this collection emerges a style of painting that gradually breaks free from figurative constraints to touch on the informal, albeit without abandoning it entirely. In the works on display, the dense, gestural brushstrokes, vibrant colours and a textured grid that breaks the two-dimensionality give the landscape a new lease of life. For Poli Maramotti, an integral part of the process of dissolving the known is her reflection on chance and error, understood as key driving forces of the creative process. Error becomes transition, transformation and possibility; every event takes on its own raison d’être, generating novel visual and conceptual connections.

The title Jardin Planétaire is inspired by this vision. The artist identifies with the role of ‘planetary gardener’, committed to negotiating the relationship between herself and her surroundings. In her works, the garden is a metaphor for dynamic balance: the uncultivated space is the most vital, the one where biodiversity thrives and variation can be expressed, thanks to the unexpected. Like a careful gardener, the artist therefore embraces the need to let things be, to acknowledge imperfection and disorder as the most authentic condition of the living world.
The works on display, most of which are unpublished, testify to the freedom of expression with which the artist approaches painting, even moving between various media – canvas, board, paper and ceramics – in a continuous dialogue between matter and colour.