“In the compositions of Marta Mànduca symbolic references germinate everywhere, hidden memories, arcane recalls. Truths and omens kept in that remote corner of the mind where the light is nacreous and the colours appear nebulous as enigmatic clues, in the blown out ashes of ancient events, now apollonian, now dionysian. Thus, in the intriguing wake where multitudes of archetypes swarm, Marta Mànduca's painting conquers a hellenic aura inhabited by singular mediterranean thrills; more, the ideal essence of a cultured surrealism in which, hermetic, his own moods collim".
Professor Giovanni Faccenda
bornSURREALIST
Like Marta Mànduca, you need to have a sort of DNA in your blood that leads you to see everything with the refractive lens of imagination but you also need to have a notable cultural depth, so that surreality can take on visual explanation through symbolism of the allegories of dreams or "only" with André Breton, of objective provocation.
Marta Mànduca follows the paths of the cosmogonic symbolists, a sort of visualization of the concepts of "existence and thought" and it is clear as everyone in all the components of the surreal house from Boch, Dalì to Magritte that it is in the fabric of painting that you can feel the great demand and the great offer of freedom of dream and imagination.
Art Critic Donato Conenna
Marta Mànduca follows the paths of the cosmogonic symbolists, a sort of visualization of the concepts of "existence and thought" and it is clear as everyone in all the components of the surreal house from Boch, Dalì to Magritte that it is in the fabric of painting that you can feel the great demand and the great offer of freedom of dream and imagination.
Art Critic Donato Conenna
