Jara Marzulli - La nostalgica

The Nostalgic (from nostalgia). Oil painting on canvas, refined in the layering of chromies and the vibrant, clear, light brushstrokes.
The work is part of a period in which the artist conducted a search for renewing a lost identity, also through mythological stories and many symbols about the feminine and identity.

The work represents a woman immersed in an environment that can be freely interpreted, even if it leads to natural aspects with the presence of small dragonflies around. The character can be compared to a Goddess—in human and always current terms—in the search for her ancestral identity, she cuts her braid to renew herself and write a new story.

What remains principal are the gazes and the naturalness of a body, not perfect according to conventional aesthetic canons, not exposed to pleasure, but rather bearing witness, itself of the entire message, which communicates confidence and dignity, going beyond mere observation.

The painting has a tall canvas and may not need a frame.

With every work there will also be shipped the certificate of authenticity of an original work.

Jara Marzulli’s works are part of private collections around the world, museum collections such as in Athens, in Catania at MacS, in Gaeta’s Pinacoteca, and at the Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera and in Cadiz, Spain.
There are numerous publications in important catalogs of the finest figurative artwork, books and magazines, both in print and online with international scope. The latest book “La statura della palma” published by Selvatiche Edizioni, with 15 images of her works, in collaboration with poet Francesca del Moro, is available on various stores, platforms, or at ordini@selvaticheedizioni.com

Jara Marzulli
born in Bari and graduated from the Bari Art High School and later from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari with the highest marks, while since 1998 she has participated in exhibitions and competitions, quickly receiving recognitions, prizes, and important selections.
Her figurative realistic painting style became immediately recognizable, and from 2004 international experiences began through fairs, biennales, and major exhibitions.

Her art grows and tells of a feeling that is both ecstatic and carnal, made even more striking and moving by the technical perfection that characterizes the artist. A lucid and piercing expressive quality, an indefinable purity that wears itself in painting, a constant play of displacements, of role reversals between the artist who paints and the depicted subject.

Numerous are the prestigious Biennials and art exhibitions where she has shown in Italy and abroad, such as Turkey, Art Taipei Fair in Taiwan, China at Red Elation Gallery in Hong Kong, the MEAM Museum in Barcelona, Dublin, the Mainz Museum, Buenos Aires in Argentina and London.

Jara Marzulli’s figures have intense, direct, frontal gazes. They carry the dignity of subjects ready to respond with great immediacy. The characters that almost entirely occupy the canvas space manage to visually represent men, women, girls, and boys who seem to recognize the observer as a stranger, sustain their gaze, push him away, and distance themselves in order to defend the silence of their precious inner world.

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