Bronze Cast (Waiting for Your Awakening) by Maria Positano
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Maria Positano shaped her practice crossing paths between 2D and 3D languages: the Italian artist is currently working with processes involving the natural element of fire; scorching and shaping wood and casting with wax and bronze.
Maria Positano is exploring the individual´s psychological engagement and immersive experience with the object. Creating artworks which help understand and reflect on the self and the notion of being human.
She completed her BA in Fine Art, with a specific focus on creating an interdisciplinary practice. Her selected exhibitions include: Dimensions, Menier Gallery, 2018, London; One Need Not Be a Chamber, Exposed Arts Projects, 2018 London; Making Meaning: The Monolith and the Object of Worship, Subsidiary Projects, London; Intermediaries, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2017, Enshede; Interim Show, The Crypt Gallery, 2017, London. The artist recently won The Merlin Entertainments Madame Tussauds Project Fund Award, which founded her newest works. She also got selected to be part of the AKI Art School exchange project organized by the artist Helen Frick, which was finalized to produce one work to exhibit in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, between July and August 2017.
Maria Positano
Biography:
Maria Positano's practice is driven by the creation of physical artefacts and manipulation of organic matter.
She deploys elements associated with rituals and ceremonies: these include the elements used [fire, burned wood, metal and wax] and the processes applied [metal working, wood burning, casting].
Maria Positano’s work evolves around symbolic containers. She seeks the layering of symbolic meaning projected onto the object of worship, which turns inanimate matter into the icon. The object, as a result of an alchemical process, or shamanic investiture, becomes a representation of the human striving to unconceal the unknown thing.
Exploring the individual´s psychological engagement and immersive experience with the object, each artwork creates a charged space. By juxtaposing transient materials and bold imagery, abstracted and symbolic, crafted object and sharp finish, she wants to create the experience of the self-reflection on the notion of being human.
Our contemporary understanding of anthropological, historical and visual codes becomes in her work a channel for unified communication between worshippers and the worshipped. Within this process emerges the figure of the archetypal Demiurge [artist, shaman, alchemist, smith] who becomes the intermediary for powerful and insightful mediation of the spiritual territory into the physical realm.
