Large format acrylics exhibited inside the room of the former nuns' refectory - former Convent of San Mattia in Bologna (now the Parri Historical Institute https://www.istitutoparri.eu/)- A meeting and dialogue of different spiritualities. Alchemy of the Soul in continuous elaboration. Mysterious and impenetrable energies connected to the Whole which are objectified in the

constant search for the purification of the Sign, in its celebration as a Gift, in the affirmation of its irrepressible vital force and in the observation of the sacredness of its transmutation...

“...But places with characteristics, endowed with a strong, by no means negligible, identity continue to interest artists precisely because of the challenge they launch, which is the

challenge of space: trying to 'stay inside it', adapt to the conditions and limits that they impose, to compete with their architecture, to live with their decorations.These are the problems that Wanda Benatti also deals with in this solo exhibition, Dancing with the invisible, which brings together six recently created works, four diptychs and two triptychs, in which the gestural materialism of informal origin is toned down and thinned out to thematize the tension of the void

and the search for balance. It is known what weight the Informal had in Bologna during the 1950s and how much it influenced many of the city's subsequent pictorial experiences. Benatti's work undoubtedly fits into this tradition, but with an eye turned overseas, to the lyrical lesson of De Kooning, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Pollock or Rothko and diverges in at least two aspects: firstly, the move away from the existential theme of the man-world conflict, typical of the historical Informal, in favor of a meditative, spiritual conception of pictorial gesturalism; but, of course, of an immanent spirituality, that is, found in the upheavals of matter. Secondly, the preciousness and elegance of the chromatic choices, from the combinations of gold and black to the use of shining glass fragments in fluid spaces, in which the informal tough magma melts in apocalyptic storms, in restless tides or in more serene surf illuminated by a dawn...” (Pasquale Fameli)