The exhibition, the artist’s fourth with the gallery, brings together a large corpus of previously unseen works that reflect the evolution of Mary’s painterly research, characterised by a slow layering process. Through a poetics shaped as much by discipline as by unpredictability, Mary’s work situates itself within the deepest dimensions of abstraction, in its purest form.
For the nine vertical canvases in Realms, Mary uses a colour palette composed of five hues: silver, cobalt blue, manganese blue, orange, and green. The different colours settle on top of one another, creating a nebulous cluster of dots that lend the compositions an immaterial, almost ethereal aura. This effect finds its fullest expression in the monumental wall painting that extends along the main gallery wall, created by the artist specifically for the occasion. Through a delicate spraying technique, the artist has composed a silvery, iridescent ground, upon which veils of grey and silver hues have settled into streaks that, as Eva Brioschi notes in her accompanying text, evoke “the effect of rain densely streaking a grey, cloud-filled sky.”
OPENING:
Thursday, 29 May 2025
6 pm – 8 pm
Open to the public
