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DISPERSIONE, 2007 ACRYLIC ON BOARD 23.6X31.4 IN. | 60X80 CM.
FINE ART CULTURE YESTERDAY, 2019 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 27X40 IN. | 68.5X101.6 CM.
LA LAMPADA ASSONNATA, 2022 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 31.4X31.4 IN. | 80X80 CM.

AUTONOMIA, 2023 MIXED MEDIA, COLLAGE ON BOARD 27X20 IN. | 68.5X50 CM. 

MARIA TERESA GUALA
Lives and works in Torino, Italy
https://www.artsy.net/artist/maria-teresa-guala

Maria Teresa Guala studied at the Albertina Academy of Fine
Arts of Turin with the lead of Prof. Scroppo. Due to her work
as a translator with important industries, she neglected her
artistic activity for some time, but continued to participate in
important exhibitions such as Gallery Micrò Turin, Promotrice
Belle Arti of Turin, Fiat cultural group, etc., obtaining
important recognition for her artistic activity. She has also
had exhibitions abroad in cities such as London, Brussels,
Hamburg, New York, Innsbruck, and in Italy in Venice,
Palermo, Padua, Piacenza, Lucca, etc.
Maria Teresa Guala’s art is characterized by an intimate balance
between line and color. Her pictorial emotions are driven by
abstraction and spirituality, depth and denunciation of living.
Her figuration generates a spontaneous expressionism of signs
suspended between topicality and archaism. The forms inspired
by Outsider Art evoke mysterious entities transfigured into
instinctive aesthetic devices. Enigmas of sign, with a primordial
character, evoke a cultured two-dimensional execution of generating synthetic and vibrant sensitive sequences.
interweaving, overlapping, hermetic visual perceptions. The The two-dimensional choice of the primordial stroke goes
artist moulds the images with an impetuous narrative force, beyond naturalistic mimesis to seek in space the revealing
overcoming rigidity and superstructures to flow into a free and essence of autonomous drives that decree the absolute
spontaneous dimension of the pictorial gesture. freedom of figuration. Graphic-ideative assonances
A total light pervades the substrate and is animated by emphasize an ancestral dimension between indefinite
vehement gestures with a restless and feverish sign symbolic spaces and arcane labyrinths of a distant past.

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