Collezione Maramotti presents "Rhizome and the Dizziness of Freedom", the first solo exhibition in Italy of the young artist Mona Osman.

Osman, who grew up and lived in Budapest, Nice, London and Bristol, presents a cycle of new paintings created for the Collection's Pattern Room. Osman worked simultaneously on all the new works, in which we find influences and references derived from a work conceived at the same time, in a single space: the last year, in the artist's studio.

Introduced by a triptych of portraits set up on an external wall of the main hall, the exhibition includes three large and two medium-sized canvases, all made with oil and mixed media on canvas. Starting from the idea of combining biblical episodes with notions drawn from existentialist philosophy - and with the intention of asking questions, rather than offering answers - Osman has pictorially developed a dense theoretical and spiritual reflection on the search for the self.

According to the artist, man's ambition to arrive at an absolute and immutable understanding of his individual essence collides with the impossibility of defining it, generating anguish and suffering.

Two elements recur in the works on display: the idea of the Tower of Babel and what Osman calls “Absolute Self”, the Absolute Self.
The Tower of Babel , symbol of man's act of pride in rising to heaven and of the consequent divine punishment, becomes a paradigm of the impossibility of communication between individuals and of the resulting condition of solitude, of the absence of an "other" through which to recognize ourselves. The Absolute Self represents the ideal and monolithic version of the Self that we try to outline and to which we tend, without ever really being able to reach it. Reality and experience inevitably spiral out of control, disclose unexpected discoveries and unpredictable changes.