GLORIA
PERSONAL VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Where: Online on the official website www.sabrinafalzone.info and on the Facebook page
Gloria is an all-round Italian artist, born in Trieste, she graduated in piano in Naples and has been a teacher of music education since 1986. Art and music have both played a decisive role in the creative life of the author, who expresses her rich and broad inner universe from sound to sign.
Art and music is a cultural combination that characterizes the artistic sensitivity of Gloria who has also exhibited her works in Switzerland.
Her drawings have a provocative character on the border between irony and the intellectual acuity of someone who not only knows how to observe current reality but highlights its difficulties, limits, methods and contradictions. Gloria presents herself as an observer of current events and becomes the spokesperson for social problems in a direct and effective way in her drawings that are immediately readable.
Her message reaches everyone with great clarity and in the drawing entitled “Future” with great essentiality. Gloria interprets the future as a huge question mark, expressing a climate of total uncertainty not only for the new generations, but also for the entire world population. The period we are living through with the ongoing pandemic, in fact, raises further perplexity and concern for the future. Another question that seems to hover in Gloria's drawing "Future" is: will there be a Future?
In the drawing entitled "Last Hope" the author engages in the theme of hope, trusting on the one hand in medical research, on the other making fun of the last solution of vaccination representing it as a war attack on a tricolor nation not in the traditional sense, but with the new color indicated by the current health trend: red, orange, yellow. The new colors of Italy in the midst of the Covid period thus stand out on the drawing "Last Hope".
It seems that this pandemic is affecting the joy of living typical of the Italian people and Gloria declares it in the drawing "Silent night". But she also launches an important appeal: "Save art". Saving art and culture in all its forms (from music to dance, from art to theater to cinema) in a time of peremptory ministerial restrictions, Gloria asks on behalf of everyone what will happen to art, but above all she denounces that without art the joy of living is extinguished.
Another theme investigated by Gloria is male violence against women, a social problem that has worsened greatly in times of pandemic, bringing to light the profoundly violent root of patriarchal families. The drawing "Indifference" highlights how the media are still saturated with obsolete patriarchal mentalities, which does not help, indeed they often carry out further violence against women by perpetrating it with indifference.
Gloria's drawings are excellent ideas for reflecting together through visual art.
Sabrina Falzone, art critic and historian