Mariella Bettineschi

“Can you put together the life of an artist in a book? No. One can, however, choose a route, plan a journey between the works, allowing similarities and differences to emerge. Mariella Bettineschi has created an archipelago that can be reached by different routes and formed by different territories.”

Thus opens the text by Francesca Pasini, editor of the monographic volume dedicated to the life and works of Mariella Bettineschi.

The book is a journey through the artist's innumerable works, tracing a link between the various seasons of his creation, but also a narrative suspense that makes us go from one place to another in this archipelago, restoring a biographical climate and an emotional dimension.

Drawing, embroidery, carving, painting, photography, installations and image manipulation: from one page to the next, each work indicates a time, a place, a quest that then veers into something else and so, from page to page, the path appears.