INTRODUCTION
by Joseph T. Marks
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions,
The University of Michigan-Dearborn
Carla Mazzucato presents to the world her memories of the past, her interpretation of the present and her vision of the future. With the dynamic energy of a seer she communicates an optimism rising from the ashes of humanity's experience of pain to a “New Horizon” where life is celebrated in a dance of line and color.
Mazzucato was born in Bolzano in Northern Italy. The mountains and narrow streets of her childhood resurface in her paintings, often as a background for timeless, skirted figures congregating in the clear alpine atmosphere. The artist's father greatly influenced her attitude of reverence toward nature, her appreciation of the beauty and bounty of the land. Her paintings sing the songs of planting and harvest; farmers and villagers are the nobility of the world of memory.
Mazzucato
classic art — contemporary vision
Art Critique - Mazzucato: New Horizons (published U.S.A.) - 1994
Carla Carli left Italy in 1962 and came to America where she married Giuseppe Mazzucato and raised her three children Anna, Paolo and Daniela. She embraced her new home with the enthusiasm of one for whom every day is a gift and every place is a new horizon to be appreciated for its unique beauty.
Carla Mazzucato has traveled extensively, observing and absorbing the spirit of the people and places she visits and expressing them in her paintings. She finds the common bonds, the shared moments, the universal experiences of the citizens of our planet; she interprets them through the eyes of one who has shared both their laughter and their tears, and offers an image suffused with an appreciation of the human spirit.
This book presents an opportunity to follow the development of the artist's style as she moves towards a looser form of expression, a technique which conveys the spiritual quality characteristic of Mazzucato's mature work. The artist shares with us her “New Horizon,” but this is by no means her final horizon; she is presently at work on a project focused on America. Her great love for her second homeland urges Mazzucato to explore and express what she sees as, “the pulsating vitality” of this country. There is always something new on her horizon.
Old Elm Tree
