SPOT n° 180 Collage

Born in Pistoia on 19.07.1975, Elena Marini is an italian artist, has collaborated with the following artists: Sarenco, Eugenio Miccini, Vanessa Beecroft, Tom Sachs, Jean-François Bauret, Serge Cohen, Daniel Druet, Uwe Ommer, Daniel Nguyen and Peter Suschitzky. Here a selection of her works (visual poetry) called SPOT, made between 2015 and 2018. ___________________________________ Elena Marini's 'visual poetry in progress' has as its fundamental value synthesis and essentiality. It is not narrative but cinematic: it is not for nothing that her collages are 'SPOT'. Each of her works is a frame of a film in continuous construction: a film that will never have an end, a film that has the same temporal length as the author's life. The images (found and recovered) are decidedly self-referential, like the dryness of the texts that accompany or integrate them: there is no more comma, there is no more word than is necessary. Dry, sharp works, that do not allow second thoughts. Marini's collages prove that 'visual poetry' is not yet dead, as the crows of art often say, those always ready to praise any new 'connerie' that appears in five-yearly time cycles on the glossy pages of fashionable art magazines. Poetry resists and is not erased: the walls of Thebes will fall but the works of those poets who will not be integrated by the ephemeral fashions of the market will remain 'ad aeternum'. (Sarenco)