As Federica Berto points out, ‘in her first exhibition in Rome, Mariuccia Roccotelli is exhibiting some of her works from different periods, underlining both her artistic evolution and what, even unconsciously, continues to be the common thread running through her production. Apulian by birth, the daughter of the painter Michele Roccotelli, she moved to Milan to attend the Brera Academy and never left the city again, except to work for a few months in Italian schools in Africa, a legacy of our nation's brief colonial period. Asmara and Addis Ababa were brief, intense experiences full of contradictions that enriched her with colours, smells, cultures, sensations, idioms, external and internal visions, the need to express herself in a universal language, which therefore starts from what unites us, FIRE, WATER, EARTH, AIR, and manages to free us from social conventions and prejudices, which breaks out of the real or imaginary boundaries that sometimes comfort us but often oppress us. An idealist, he chooses to teach at the Beccaria Juvenile Penitentiary Institute in Milan and to dedicate himself to those who have embarked, willy-nilly, on paths full of obstacles, pitfalls, difficulties and misunderstandings and who in art could express themselves and who knows, re-enter society'.
And on the title of the exhibition: ‘The title of the exhibition is an acronym of the four elements of primordial philosophy, but it is also a provocation: fairy is the woman of fairy tales, a model to which a certain culture would like to reduce the female figure, so present in Mariuccia's paintings but of a completely different colour and depth, Mariuccia's women are present to themselves but above all to the world, they are powerful, they are immense, we perceive their breath, their vital breath, their energy. Fairy is also the Latin plural of Fatum, is everyone born with a destiny? We cannot answer that, but each of us has at least one talent, which we should discover, cultivate and share, Mariuccia's is undoubtedly painting, with which she listens to and expresses the complexity of the world and the human soul ‘Carpe diem, et cogita fata hominum’’.
During the exhibition period, and during Rome Art Week, there will be several in-depth appointments:
19 October: 5 pm guided tour curated by Demetra Luziotti.
20 October: 18:00 Guided tour curated by Beatrice Cirone.
21 October: 19:00 Paola Ricci reads excerpts from passages from the classical repertoire.
22 October: 6 p.m. Guided tour (in English on request) by Francesca Matarazzo.
23 October: 18:00 F for Fire, Musical and literary interlude by the students of the Liceo Tasso.
24 October: 6 p.m. A for Acqua, Musical and literary interlude by the students of Liceo Tasso.
25 October: 6 p.m. T for Earth, Musical and literary interlude by the students of Liceo Tasso.
26 October: 4.30 p.m. Guided tour (in Spanish on request) by Eleonora Panella; 6.00 p.m. A come Aria performance on the aerial circle by Sarah Petruziello to music played on the piano and readings by the students of the Liceo Tasso.
27 October: 17:00 evening of free readings on the universe of women.
29 October: 6 p.m. piano performance by Alessandra Sicoli.
1 November: 6 p.m. Literary evening by MariaChiara Marcucilli.
2 November: 6.30 p.m. Finissage.
