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This exhibition is an important stage (certainly not the point of arrival) of the artistic research begun ten years ago by Claudia Piscitelli.

A path that began with the teachings of the artist Meriel Gold that allowed her to add, to her already original way of telling reality through “free” drawing, the “feeling”, particularly in the practice of drawing/painting from life people. Thus was born the series of “Soul Portraits,” the subject of an exhibition at the Mazarin Variations gallery in Paris in 2017. In the past two years, a new encounter with artist Morag Donnelly, also a student of Meriel Gold, who con- duces study groups and workshops in England called “life sensing” has led to a new evolution in the artist’s re- search. An even greater deconstruction of formal drawing, including through the use of unconventional tools and materials, and an even greater connection and closeness to the subjects depicted. And it was through this that drawing became like music with eyes closed and the 400 drawings in the exhibition were born.