N.Y. ART
by Dorothy Roatz Myers
Carli Mazzucato's table-top sculptures and paintings which were exhibited in New York at the Montserrat Gallery might well have been a collaboration between Bruegel and Renoir. Although she tells us her art has been greatly affected and influenced by Roualt's purpose, which was to express moods and emotions of modest folks and their simple lifestyle in uncomplicated environments, Mazzucato paints with an impressionistic delicacy that suggests and sings rather than shouts as do the bold expressionistic paintings by Roualt.
Her subject matter and imagery portray clusters of friends, crowds of strangers, and scenes of parties in the streets...all communicating, she says, "a celebration of life and joy of spirit as they move towards horizons of hope and dreams." This singular theme runs through her pantings and her small box-like tower sculptures. There is a feeling of wholeness about this body of work that tells of humanity's experiences.
"Red Poppies" leads one around its sides amid flowering meadows while "Gondolas" visually drifts viewers along Venice canals as they experience panel after panel around its rectangular tower shape. Figures in the paintings dance, gather in celebrating throngs, or stand silently together in quiet streets or flowering meadows. The beauty of solitude is suggested rather than described in detail which would destroy moods and overpower tender sympathy for appealing villagers who live in half-real worlds. Charming examples of this are "Gala," "Masquerade" and "Seashore." She instills them and their environment with a poetic quality. Her subjective color sense is at once understated and dynamic. Symbolic hues support emotion and feeling: blues for harmony, reds and yellows for joy, rose for serenity and charm, and greens and shades of white for quiet peace.
Mazzucato
classic art — contemporary vision
Art Critique - Art Talk: Covering the New York Art Scene (from SoHo to 57th and beyond) - February 1996
Broad strokes and semi-abstracted forms classify her style as expressionism, nevertheless impressions of reality prevail in studied compositions which unite figures in conventional patterns and rhythms.
Carli Mazzucato studied at Ca' Foscari Fine Arts Academy in Venice, continued in Milan, and then came to the United States on a cultural exchange program to receive her Masters Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. She has shown her work internationally and it is included in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, Austria, France, Korea and Japan.
Her exceptional work and sincere efforts to create art for the enjoyment of others, which is its true purpose, have brought her the respect of the world art community. publications and periodicals have featured her art and a book, "Mazzucato - New Horizons" with introduction by Samuel Sachs II, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, is available from that source.
Gala
Montserrat Gallery
New York City
