Mental Pictures Translated

CAGLIARI – THE WORLD – BALERNA

il neige sur Liège Personal Exhibition

(MARIANA COSTA WELDON)

Cagliari-born, citizen of mid-Atlantic, Mariana Costa Weldon – il neige sur Liège —landed in Canada very young; there she studied, raised a family and taught university; and in-between did a lot of other things. At the moment she commutes between Switzerland and Cagliari for professional reasons.

The exhibition includes a unique selection of images seized in her frequent travels around the world far and near. Passion for captured moments into photographs [sic], fed by a dynamic, varied and rich life and life-style, emerged several decades ago, out of curiosity for the world around, but particularly because of her inexplicable attraction towards nature, life, people, emotions and wanting to share this – a compulsive trait of her personality.

What moves her is the need to capture images, an innate sensorial ability and keen interest for the tiniest details, and for not letting the fleeting moment disappear without trace and memory, but seizing it forever, making it mine/yours/the world’s. Research into the invisibly visible is the Prime Mover in this quest that goes after unrepeatable experiences – supposedly, like anyone’s – a need and propulsion into the realm of the unexplored self.

Crepuscule and its surreal light, the rapid passing of clouds, a blink into fragmented land- or urbanscapes: these she sees and interprets unconventionally and diversely every time – from a car in motion, from a train, from a boat, or standing in awe before, beside, below the object of desire that holds her heart, mind and eye spellbound. Like everything in her life, mood and emotion determine where she goes and what she does; alas, never school or technique.

Though you might think improvisation the main element in her style, I believe that wasting a second glance on the images with the eyes of the heart, you may find the less substantial and evident aspect, which tells you chance is not at the core of the creation – rather emotions, and a Stendhalian love of detail, cause and effect, self-surprise above all.

Cagliari & Sardinia

#1 Cagliari — Traffico nel Largo Carlo Felice Satin photo-paper on kapamount panel — 29x50cm — €100.00

Purchased by Mr. Franco Mele, Milano —Art Dealer and Auction House Expert

#2 Cagliari— il sole muore 

100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount— 27x20cm — €90.00

#3 Cagliari — la Notte arriva alla Marina - Scalette di S. Teresa

PVC & polypropylene print on kapamount panel—35x47cm — €100.00

Purchased by Mr. Franco Mele, Milano —Art Dealer and Auction House Expert

#5 Cagliari -- Beau ciel, vrai ciel - con Paul Valéry al Bastione

PVC & polypropylene print on kapamount panel—30x45cm — €90.00

#2 Sardinia — arrivando a Castelsardo da Sassari, lungo la costa

100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount—24x40cm — €130.00

#3 Sardinia — Costa Rei invernale

100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount—28x42cm — €150.00

Courtesy of Gigliola Cadelano & Tore Saba

#4 Sardinia -- Gemme deleddiane in centro, a Nuoro

Satin photo-paper on kapamount panel — 20x27cm — €60.00

The World

#1 the world — Bistrot de la Renaissance — Paris @Porte St. Martin

100% cotton canvas, not mounted — 40x80cm — €200.00

#2 the world — in Ticino una mattina presto guardando verso Brunate e il Lago di Como

100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount — 26x17cm — €80.00

#3 the world — Ville d'Avray — Le soir arrive sur l'Etang de Corot

100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount—22x30cm —€100.00

#4 the world — India, Delhi — Shish-Gumbad Mausoleum @Lodi Gardens — detail

Satin photo-paper on kapamount panel — 19x25cm — €60.00

#5 the world — sous le pont... n'importe quel pont... Parisien

PVC & polypropylene on kapamount panel 20x27cm — €60.00

#6 the world — New York City...Guess where… 

Satin photo-paper on kapamount panel — 30x43cm — €70.00 

#7 il mondo — Roma notturna dall'auto in corsa

PVC & polypropylene on kapamount panel — 30x40cm — €100.00

#8 the world – Rome @Colle Oppio – the Kiss100% cotton canvas on 4cm wooden mount — 50x75cm — €300.00

Purchased by Mr. Silvio Corona, Cagliari

portraits

Stefano Caria

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel 30x30cm €90.00

Purchased by Mr. Caria, Cagliari

Dino Murgia

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 20x30cm €85.00

Purchased by Dr. Murgia, MD, Selargius

Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks

PVC & polypropylene on kapamount panel — 40x40cm — €200.00Purchased by Mrs. Susskind-Sacks, Tel-Aviv, Israel

MarieJeanne — an experiment

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 20x30cm – € 80.00

Purchased by Ms Gianna Farci, Serrenti

Giorgio Landi

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 25x30cm

Courtesy of Mr. Landi, Cagliari

Sal

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 30x30cm — €100.00

Purchased by Dr. Murgia, MD

Mario

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 25x30cm — €80.00

Purchased by Dr. Murgia, MD

Zoe Cogoni

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 20x28cm

Courtesy of the owner

Silvio Corona

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel - 25x30cm

Courtesy of the owner

Adriana Màsala

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel — 42x40cm — €100.00

Purchased by Ms Màsala, Cagliari

Omaggio a Rossella Falk— in Praise of Rossella Falkwoman, actress, myth and icon of the Italian—but not only

— stage

Satin photo paper on kapamount panel —20x35cm — €100.00

Purchased by Architect & Art Designer S. Vola, Torino

Thanking wholeheartedly the Sponsors, Art Lovers and Supporters — i.e. models,

clients/purchasers/outstanding Sardinian entrepreneurs — that made this exhibition

possible.

&

L’Angolo dell’Arte

di Maria Bruna Murgia

aka BrunettaCagliari e Pula

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