The exhibition will be open free access to the public on the occasione of Giornata del Contemporaneo, saturday October 7th 2023.

It is a great return as the talented painter had been missing from the Trieste scene for several years, and on this occasion you will have the opportunity to admire a selection of some of her new works.
Contemporary and visionary landscapes from a strong textural impact rich in brushstrokes from overlapping and skillfully blended oil colors will be the dominant part of this exhibition, but put in dialogue with a small series of works in acrylic on plexiglass in which the spontaneous brushstrokes are laden with vibrant colors.
To better explain Donatella Sommariva's artistic philosophy, let us take a cue from some critical writings that well explain her feeling.
"From Donatella Sommariva's painting, three ways of proceeding are evident, on a technical level: drafting, scratching, glazing. Although coexisting over time and, at times, in the same works, each constitutes a step toward the final pictorial "diffusion," perceived in the progressive dissolving of matter and forms - increasingly rarefied - until they derogate from the physical limits of the support, until they spread from the same ... into the space around. (by sergio siraj signorini).”
"Donatella Sommariva is an introspective painter: her art, informal and extremely powerful and takes shape within a path of inner research that leads her to explicate what already harbored within herself. Donatella credits art with being "a journey within the journey" that is life: the existence of every human being is a sort of matryoshka doll where each layer represents a talent but at the center of which there is only and always the soul, in the most literal sense of the term. ....There is why her works are so informal: how to depict what cannot be seen but can be perceived? Her painting is a babbling of the soul, an attempt to connect to the Source of inspiration: and Donatella succeeds. Her paintings must be looked at, looked at again, and then looked at again until you go through them, until you begin to discern the form, the character, the number, the face. Everyone sees something different, everyone reflects himself! (excerpt from Simona HeArt's text)."