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  • Luisa Rabbia, Love (detail), 2016, colored pencil and acrylic on canvas, 9' × 16' 10".

    Luisa Rabbia, Love (detail), 2016, colored pencil and acrylic on canvas, 9' × 16' 10".

    Luisa Rabbia

    Collezione Maramotti

    The color blue has been important to Luisa Rabbia’s artistic investigations since the 1990s. This show of ten works made between 2009 and 2017 adds new nuances and tonalities: violet, maroon, red. Drawing in pencil on acrylic paint on paper or canvas, she weaves an intricate web of signs and achieves pictorial plenitude in the combination/opposition of a flat, frequently blue background and the vertiginous stratification of pencil marks. In these works, inner and outer landscapes coexist, demanding a variable perspective from viewers. At close range, one can perceive traces of the artist’s hand,

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