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The Art of Emotion

I paint what doesn't yet have a name

and that lives under the skin of the world.

I don't show the world, I open it.

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ABOUT

 

Angela Margherita Leotta was born in Catania, Sicily, on December 28, 1974. She is an artist of great expressive intensity, known for her paintings, which she herself defines as "Trans-figurative." She does not merely represent reality, but its occurrence, attempting to grasp the mystery of the identity of the human body and face, never fixed, never banal, and in constant metamorphosis.

 

With his Transfigurative painting, Leotta investigates and seeks to make visible what lives beneath the skin of the world, that is, the complex and restless flow of life, its forces, its tensions, its energy, its peaks and its falls, that is, life captured as it happens.

 

Thus, through the use of gouache and acrylic, rapid techniques that are well suited to his research, Leotta invites the observer with his work to have a profound and cathartic emotional experience, also questioning the reason for his place in the world.

The Style
The power of restlessness

 

“(…) She distorts the world, reduces it to what is primitive and essential: movement, energy, heat, color. She dons these colors, changes its walls from straight to darting, crooked and sudden, she bends, she moves. Her strong figures move in an indefinite space. The gaunt, hollow, suffering faces scream out the restlessness of the "Joan of Arc" who painted them. It is as if the fire that flows in Angela's veins can make it flow like volcanic lava, on the works she paints. Fire that purifies and restores Life. Rebirth, resilience, justice, for those who have not had justice. Those millions of bodies that the sea sucked defenseless. Those souls who sought only a new world. A hope for revenge. The survivors scream, as in the famous painting by Edvard Munch, in all their pain. A symbolic synthesis of human suffering.
The backgrounds behind the figures reveal the light, the horizon made of waves, sinuosities, and overlappings. The faces are devoid of any age connotations, and the clothes are simplified and reduced to hints, features that cover the strong, muscular, and angular bodies. At times, those bodies seem like apparitions or liquid visions, dynamic and agitated dimensions, noisy elasticities, at times almost annoying, but which force us to reflect. (…) ”

 

Critical excerpt by Malù Lattanzi

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Statement and Biography

 

"I paint what lives beneath the skin of the world. Through layers of material, signs, and visions, I construct images in which the visible cracks and allows what remains hidden to emerge. My work arises from the urgency to give form to contemporary anxiety: a necessary act to traverse the present and reveal its deepest truths."


Active since 1997, Angela Margherita Leotta exhibits in Italy and abroad, with works in international private collections, including that of Victor Manuel Contreras in Guadalajara. Between 2021 and 2024, she was invited to Villa Tittoni (Desio) for the Biennial dedicated to Giuseppe Scalvini and for important group exhibitions. In 2021, she published La forza dell'inquietudine (Libeccio Edizioni); in 2024, her work was included in the Atlas of Contemporary Art (Giunti), sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among her main awards: the Giuseppe Scalvini Museum Award and Plaque (2021) and the C. Plicato Curator Award (2023).

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