Vincenza Luppino, who works under the name Meravì, is an architect and visual artist whose research fuses spatial design with a sustained material enquiry. Her training in architecture informs a poetics in which the pictorial surface is treated as a...
Read MoreVincenza Luppino, who works under the name Meravì, is an architect and visual artist whose research fuses spatial design with a sustained material enquiry. Her training in architecture informs a poetics in which the pictorial surface is treated as a three-dimensional field of forces, so that the painting becomes a genuine plastic construction. She stratifies acrylic pigments, modelling pastes and raw or industrial materials — frayed jute, pressed paper, felt — into tactile topographies and dramatic folds that respond to light; vertical grooves and geometric incisions punctuate the surface, translating architectural rigour into visual rhythm. Her palette is essential and saturated, governed by pure, intense colours — vivid red, burnt orange, magenta, burgundy — set against material whites or absolute blacks to heighten the play of cast shadow. Her production thus takes the form of an architecture of light and shade, in which colour carries structural weight and the work offers an experience at once visual, kinetic and sensorial. She lives and works in Siderno, in Calabria(Italy).
