PASSAGGI

EVENT 20 OTTOBRE 2025 - OPENING HOURS 10:00-19:00

BIBLIOTECA ANGELICA - Salone Monumentale

Piazza di Sant'Agostino, 8 - 00186 Roma

Installation/ painting by Alba Bertagnolli Hemingway and Francesca Mazzi

curated by Guido D'Angelo

The world is an illusion, but

it is an illusion that we must take seriously,

because up to a certain point it is real,

and it is true in those aspects of reality

that we are capable of understanding."

[Aldous Huxley]

Passaggi is an environmental installation project

consisting of six paintings by the two artists

Hemingway and Mazzi. The complex arrangement

of the works in the space centers on the shared theme of immersion through

the brushing of the body-painting. The paintings, displayed on iron

structures specifically designed for the project, address

the theme of the anti-image figure in varying forms

and ways—so much so that it would be correct to call

it an anti-figure. Painting is exposed here, and in this inevitable exposure, it

is forced to lay itself bare.

The vision pushes beyond the possible and opens up to

new forms of understanding, elevating the capacity

to grasp the spiritual side of things. Painting, once again,

as has happened at other key moments in its history,

breaks through and breaks its barriers to become living,

dancing flesh on the summits of the world.

Francesca Mazzi was born in Verona and moved to Rome at a young age, where she still lives and works. She earned a high school diploma in classical studies and subsequently earned degrees in Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza and in Bioethics from the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome. She began her artistic training by attending Dana Pagan's art studio and then the studios of Roman artists Giorgia Rissone, Guido D'Angelo, and Antonio Finelli at IDA, the Italian Academy of Drawing. She attended painting and drawing courses at the SmArt Polo per l'Arte foundation in Rome. She also took a botanical painting course at Studio Arti Floreali, taught by Maria Rita Stirpe. She participates in various studio workshops led by artist Angelo Bellobono, focusing on contemporary gestural landscape painting.

She currently attends the MAGTRE studio in Rome, run by maestro Guido D'Angelo