Museo: Museo della Calzatura di Villa Foscarini Rossi

Introduction

Welcome, I am Marilisa Brocca, a Venetian artist, and I will tell you about this creative journey of mine through form, color, and soul. It is well known that I speak to my works and the title of this exhibition says it all. In reality, each work is born from an encounter between my artistic “visions” and these shoe shapes: worked, scratched, forgotten in the dusty boxes of antique shops that I love to visit. They don't have a certain age, but for me they could have been a hundred years old when I saw them, and I was there to meet them. It didn't take much... it was love at first sight, when, caressing them and following their shapes, I imagined giving them new life to tell new stories. These shapes have a past and I found them by chance, after a really long time... it is spontaneous to think what their destination will be... to hope that one day... traveling in time, maybe in a hundred years, someone will meet them and fall in love with them just like it happened to me. Have a nice trip, Marilisa

POI 2: Swing 2.0

Music is always there, accompanying every brushstroke of mine, every line, and shade that I tell with colors. When I paint, the space around me must keep me company, too much silence makes me gloomy and doesn't make me feel light as I should be when the colors intertwine with my hands. When I write, instead, silence welcomes and inspires me. This is an artistic installation inspired by music, I played with the shape of the shoe that has become the keyboard of a piano. The twelve-centimeter heel is symbolically present thanks to the brush used to paint the work. Symbiosis and energy of mind and heart. The base, a wooden structure, collects the continuous flow of ideas. Acrylic technique on wood.

POI 3: Never stop!

Gloomy days make me melancholic but never find me without ideas... Days affect the mood, we are different depending on whether it is a sunny or a gloomy, dark day. Being able to always find stimuli by also allowing oneself to be conditioned by adverse weather is a major plus. We relate to different points of view and moods to discover further facets of ourselves. Never stop! Acrylic on canvas and shoe shapes found in the colorful Cordignano market... I happened to pass by by chance and it was really a pleasant encounter that I like to tell today.

POI 4: Mi casa es tu casa

As long as I paint, emotion will accompany me, I will know that I am on the right track for a healthy madness. Painting is my free space and as such it must relax and entertain me ... never bore. I found this branch of wood on the beach of Caorle in one of the first allowed outings in the post covid days... I immediately thought of coral, guardian of small colored fish and algae and microscopic living beings of the sea. Having found these mini hidden forms behind a counter at the antique market of Vicenza has for me closed the circle of the search for its right location. Mi casa es tu casa...

POI 5: A tu per tu

... when everything stops and you are in the company of your thoughts. Sometimes it is difficult to hide, often everything around seems to stop and while I seem absorbed, in reality I fly, my mind is processing, in training. A great director said: How can I explain that when I seem to look into the void, in reality I am creating? It's like this, thoughts are like time, they never stop, they are delicate and precious just like the petals of a flower. And I wanted to have these shapes found in the market near my house, in Mogliano Veneto, supported by gentle hands because thoughts should always be treated well. Work on acrylic canvas

POI 6: Reinvent yourself every day

I can dance alone or with whoever I want with my painting... Being or not being doesn't matter if with my painting I can reinvent myself every day. These shapes discovered in the large antiques market in Vicenza together with the particular brass supports have become guardians of great energy. Acrylic work on canvas

POI 7: Princesses rock

Colors, colors, colors... an explosion of colors. Being rock is demanding but very fun. It only takes a little to smile: a fuchsia boa that surrounds your face, a heel in the shape of a violin key, a convinced and determined look. All components for the beginning of a beautiful story. In fact, the story of these shoe shapes is very rock: I found them by chance on a booth of an exhibitor at the antique market of Piazzola sul Brenta, he sold original fabrics and absolutely abstract designs. acrylic work on canvas

POI 8: Venice

Daughter of Venetian doc, I have always lived Venice as a treasure chest of beauty. In my native home, Murano glass, paintings by local Venetian artists and recovered gondola oarlocks. This wooden sculpture represents one of the typical Venetian oarlocks and on it are placed two shapes coming from the market of Serravalle di Vittorio Veneto.

POI 9: The places of the heart

Not far from Venice, the lagoon, so essential and rich in nuances ... so still but so always in motion with its colors and its biodiversity of flora and fauna present. A flight of flamingos colors the sky that is reflected on the water and doubles the beauty. acrylic work on canvas and shoe shapes collected among the odds and ends of a dusty crate in the market of Vicenza

POI 10: Fragility and strength

Female figures are part of my artistic journey, through them I represent strength and will in the fragility of everyday life. Fragility moves like a caress on the spirit, delicate but firm, an open window on infinity, as if the colors contained a greater truth, whispered only to those who are ready to listen to it for real. Strength? is precisely this precise moment of intimate connection with the world. acrylic work on canvas and shapes coming from the Serravalle flea market. When I bought them, I used to tell what their destination would be and in this case the exhibitor wanted to give them to me...Thank you very much.