Reviews

Fragmenta

by Guglielmo Gigliotti

When Maria Pina Bentivenga paints or etches, she does not do it to simply reproduce images that she has seen but to develop, step by step, her long and meticulous studies on the nature of marks and line. These are the elements that she uses as the basis for her work and with them is able to create images that can stand on their own.

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Maria Pina Bentivenga or On the Interweaving of Life

by Marco Bussagli

When many signs become interwoven, each one gives strength to the others, creating organization within a complex universe of lights and darks, volumes and backgrounds. It is to this complex language that Maria Pina Bentivenga turns to in her etchings.

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