She has many arrows in the bow of her expressive potential…

“Something escapes the lips of the two figures, furrowed by sharp signs, in the monochrome and monotonous work of union without glances, of juxtaposition without orthogonies, of postures forced in the post-liberty of the engraved backdrop. An original and ancient technique that of Cinzia Quadri, which annexes everything that falls before our eyes, provided that the pupil knows how to select and dissect, investigate and reveal, know and foresee. An expression finally framed, focal direction could not know better (and it is the immanent thing of the work) from a neutral geometric trompe l’oeil, which precisely for this reason takes on the task of being in the things themselves, before and after the time and the rite of memory, in reason as in irrationality, in the lucidity of the analytical eye or, on the contrary, short circuit of the informal one. Quadri has many arrows in the bow of its expressive potential, from those of an animalism more of affection, than of effect, to the somatisms of portraiture on ink, to the environmental exoticisms ab origine of the most hidden Africas. Roads.” 2009

Painting: Roads

Donat Conenna

Art Critic