This work of Mariangela Fumagalli should be compared to the work of the impressionist masters. Her use of color to produce form and prospective is incredible.
Observing her paintings one is transformed in time and feels part of the painting and its mysteries.
As a master colorist she translates her inner vision to the canvas with her unique painting process color and like the masters is accomplished spontaneously with the light she effects.
Painter and polyglot, spent her youth in the famed park of Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio (Como). Therefore her painting is permeated by a memory of this sensitivity rendered subtly melancholy by her response to her earliest games among the meadows and the woods; the first scenario which created her intimacy with nature itself.
Mariangela ignores even refuses, the easy glibness of merely technical means, and through her instinct applies all of this to her canvas. As a single example, cypresses bent in the wind seem almost invaded by clouds which are tinged with myriad tints. She paints with her instinct, her very soul, as if the transport at the canvas. Her painting is a reflection of herself in the life. Her heart is the revelation of her overwhelming personality, that sweeping emotion so particular to her.
Her paintings resonate, so that, indeed, one is tempted to assert that, other than being seen, they should be heard.
Emilio Todeselli
Painter, chairman of the Italian Figurative Arts Federation.
(F.I.A.F.)