Article: Carlo Maria Mariani at Hackett-Freedman.(Brief Article)

In his second San Francisco show, titled "Fourteen Compositions for a Female Chorus," Carlo Maria Mariani presented seven recent oil paintings and as many works on paper. In the gallery's main space, two large compositions and four smaller canvases evoked an otherworldly domain of Greco-Roman mythopoetics. Populating these commanding images are idealized, winged divinities and buff mortals. A number of them show a lone female figure who flies or hovers in midair outside a large window.

Mariani's technique, which combines refined drawing and academic polish, represents a spirited resistance to modernist orthodoxy. The meticulously rendered figures and fragments of ...

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