Campi cromatici

Chromatic Fields

......The fact that Marialuisa Sponga uses a sewing machine for her
assemblages is significant. It is as if something more than traditional cubist
overlaying were necessary to assemble the dispersed pieces of the image and
that the border had to be followed so precisely so as not to allow any dispersion
and ensure the endurance of its contiguity.

Anne Dunand

"Chromatic Fields n.2" 1996 - 240 x 80 cm.
Assemblage machine quilted, cotton, polyester, gauzes, plastic, transparent thread, metallic net, raffia, natural dyed flocks of wool, treated cloth and threads.

......In the textile work "Campi Cromatici" (Chromatic Fields) Marialuisa
Sponga revisits traditionally feminine techniques and instruments to obtain
original forms of writing. With the assemblage of textiles and threads, laid in
such a way so as to compose a sort of hieroglyphic writing, she unites synthetic
and metallic materials, a cyber figure of her works.

Chiara Mangiarotti

......The hope of a communion between man and the environment is
identified in the assemblage "Campi Cromatici 3" (Chromatic Fields 3), from
the Civic Collection of Textile Art in Chieri. The gauze and the cloths, made
tumid with wadding, present themselves in an articulate creased manner, which
becomes a metaphor of biological diversity. The pale colours manifest their
chromatic spectrum heightened by the embossed unwinding of the textiles.
The backgrounds are not rigid but they intersect and wind into a dimension
pertaining to organic nature. What unfurls is an analytical outlook on the infinite
variety of existing things which can be enjoyed thanks to the instant brought to a
standstill in the composition.

Augusta Moletto Zucchi

"Chromatic Fields n.3" 1998 - 220 x 105 cm.
Assemblage machine quilted, cotton, polyester, gauzes, natural dyed flocks of wool, transparent thread, copper wire, sisal, treated cloth and threads.

How do Marialuisa Sponga's works fascinate me?
Perhaps it the structure of the lines traced out by the sewing machine which
dutifully lends itself to produce volutes; these in turn become a pattern in
which chromatic bulks and the plainness of the textiles are arranged. I was
struck by the natural force expressed by the textile substance which seems
to burst out from the composition, immediately embraced by the gauze, under
which the out-breaking of the yarn product is held in and stopped. Marialuisa
Sponga's art has the gift of cheering with its nostalgic colours and the firm
persistence of its lines. The sewing machine needle, apparently rigid and hostile,
complies to an artful use of writing and displays all its versatility, proposing sharp
dynamics which are highly mastered. The gentleness of the gauze, enhanced by
the wadding, presents an organic dimension, almost as if it were a surface to be
caressed.

Augusta Moletto Zucchi

"Chromatic Fields n.1" 1998 - 200 x 200 cm.
Assemblage machine quilted, cotton, polyester, gauzes, copper wire, plastic, plastic net, natural dyed flocks of wool, transparent thread, treated cloth and threads.