Description: In medicina, una concrezione è un deposito di materiale organico o inorganico che si sviluppa in una cavità naturale del corpo. Più in generale è un accrescimento per giustapposizione di più elementi, un agglomerato formatosi per deposito di sostanze anche diverse tra loro. L’artista immagina l’incontro tra due materie organiche differenti come parti del corpo umano e le materie plastiche che fluttuano nel mare. Il mare è il Mediterraneo, luogo di tragedie, di grandi naufragi e morti dimenticati, dove i rifiuti umani di un mondo che non riesce a dargli sostentamento, si incontrano con i rifiuti plastici di una società dedita al consumismo, che ha troppo e si libera dell’eccesso disperdendolo nell’ambiente. Le sculture sono realizzate con tecniche diverse che spaziano dall’assemblaggio di imballi plastici, misti a colle e cartapesta, alla ceramica smaltata.
In medicine, a concretion is a deposit of organic or inorganic material that develops in a natural body cavity. More generally, it is an agglomeration formed by the deposition of even different substances. The artist imagines the meeting of two different organic materials as parts of the human body and the plastic waste floating in the sea. The sea is the Mediterranean, a place of tragedies, of great shipwrecks and forgotten deaths, where the human waste of a world that fails to provide sustenance meets the plastic waste of a society dedicated to consumerism, which has too much and gets rid of the excess by dispersing it in the environment. The sculptures are made using different techniques ranging from plastic packaging, mixed with glue and papier-mâché, to glazed ceramics.

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Description: In medicina, una concrezione è un deposito di materiale organico o inorganico che si sviluppa in una cavità naturale del corpo. Più in generale è un accrescimento per giustapposizione di più elementi, un agglomerato formatosi per deposito di sostanze anche diverse tra loro. L’artista immagina l’incontro tra due materie organiche differenti come parti del corpo umano e le materie plastiche che fluttuano nel mare. Il mare è il Mediterraneo, luogo di tragedie, di grandi naufragi e morti dimenticati, dove i rifiuti umani di un mondo che non riesce a dargli sostentamento, si incontrano con i rifiuti plastici di una società dedita al consumismo, che ha troppo e si libera dell’eccesso disperdendolo nell’ambiente. Le sculture sono realizzate con tecniche diverse che spaziano dall’assemblaggio di imballi plastici, misti a colle e cartapesta, alla ceramica smaltata.
In medicine, a concretion is a deposit of organic or inorganic material that develops in a natural body cavity. More generally, it is an agglomeration formed by the deposition of even different substances. The artist imagines the meeting of two different organic materials as parts of the human body and the plastic waste floating in the sea. The sea is the Mediterranean, a place of tragedies, of great shipwrecks and forgotten deaths, where the human waste of a world that fails to provide sustenance meets the plastic waste of a society dedicated to consumerism, which has too much and gets rid of the excess by dispersing it in the environment. The sculptures are made using different techniques ranging from plastic packaging, mixed with glue and papier-mâché, to glazed ceramics.
Technique used: serie di sculture in ceramica o plastica, carta, colla, acrilico
series of sculptures made of ceramic or plastic, paper, glue, acrylic
Dimensions: dimensioni varie
various dimensions
Production year: 2016, in corso
ongoing

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Tecnica utilizzata: serie di sculture in ceramica o plastica, carta, colla, acrilico
series of sculptures made of ceramic or plastic, paper, glue, acrylic
Dimensioni: dimensioni varie
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Anno di produzione: 2016, in corso
ongoing

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Technique used: serie di sculture in ceramica o plastica, carta, colla, acrilico
series of sculptures made of ceramic or plastic, paper, glue, acrylic
Dimensions: dimensioni varie
various dimensions
Production year: 2016, in corso
ongoing

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Maria Giovanna Morelli

BIO BIO BIO

Maria Giovanna Morelli (1978, Ravenna) graduated in Construction Engineering Architecture in Bologna. Her studies allow her to range across different media and materials,

such as installation practices and more traditional techniques like painting, drawing, and ceramics.

Her work has been exhibited on several occasions in national exhibitions and awards: in 2019 and 2017 she was selected for Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, in 2019 she was among the finalists for the Combat Prize on show at the Museo Fattori in Livorno.

In 2022 she took part in the workshop/residency promoted by RAMO and Untitled Association “Ritratto a Mano 7.0” with Monica Lundy and Daniele Puppi at the Ex Convento delle Clarisse in Caramanico Terme.

STATEMENT STATEMENT STATEMENT

Maria Giovanna Morelli’s artistic work oscillates between grotesque and monstrous imagery and a more fairy-tale world of soft figures and pastel colors. Sometimes ambiguous shapes hint at a veiled and never explicit eroticism. The reference to the human body often conceals an ironic approach, with a hint of cynicism that permeates her entire production.

The fundamental themes that run through much of her artistic research include family, motherhood and autobiographical cues.

Easily readable in the painting where figures sometimes become shapeless, fleshy masses, other times children’s bodies playing in geometric and flat environments that cross the domestic space.

The absolute protagonist in both painting and sculpture is colour. In painting, it is used as a material to create masses and backgrounds that leap out of space in strong bold chords, while in small sculptures it becomes a decorative element and the tonal chord becomes gentle and elegant.