Maria Pacheco Cibils The Colors of Feelings Curated by Francesca Barbi Marinetti Inauguration October 14, 2024 6 p.m. RAW Event October 21, 2024 6 p.m. Galleria Biblioteca Angelica Via di Sant’Agostino 11 – Rome Until October 30, 2024 On October 14, 2024 at 6 p.m. 00 inaugurates the exhibition I colori dei sentimenti (The colors of feelings) by Maria Pacheco Cibils, curated by Francesca Barbi Marinetti and with texts by Francesca Barbi Marinetti and Barbara Volpi, at the rooms of the Galleria della Biblioteca Angelica (MiBACT), a prestigious exhibition space used for contemporary art exhibitions. On display are 24 paintings belonging to the artist’s latest painting cycle and a multisensory installation accompanied by Niccolò Di Ferdinando’s sound track “Antifigure.” As curator Francesca Barbi Marinetti writes, “The experimentation of the Argentine-Portuguese artist Pacheco Cibils has been moving for years in the direction of overcoming the traditional conception of form, with full-bodied and bright chromatic mixtures, which strives to offer an investigation of the energies that govern matter in an increasingly holistic conception of art. The themes that inspire it fall mainly within the sphere of ancestral and archetypal knowledge: the main elements of life, earth, fire, air and water in macro and microcosms, the foundational dualisms of existence, such as light and darkness or male and female. To the cycle The Colors of Feelings belong 24 canvases of large, medium and small size, which can be succinctly described as abstract and material, but the chromatic vigor, texture, rhythm and depth that the pictorial matter takes on – which for the artist always refers to an explicit thematic research area – recovers an unequivocal symbolism of colors, and the same pictorial gesture, repeated on multiple layers, tells in painting the complex journeys of the wave of love emotions. […] The works of Maria Pacheco Cibils are a cross-section of archetypal figures of love, each representative of that concentration of celebration, passion or bewilderment. To connect, to recognize, to relaunch is the due subjective homage that each is called upon to make, to complete a discourse, interior and universal at once, that transcends and will always transcend every trend in history.” And in Barbara Volpi’s text, “In the beginning everything is emotion, sensory vibration that is transformed in the con-tact with the other into an intertwined emotional kaleidoscope, in which joy, fear, sadness, anger, disgust are mixed together to gradually unravel, touch after touch, caress after caress, in the loving embrace of the one who cares for us and with his hands shapes our feelings. […]