FORMS NOT FORMS OF THE SOUL: ARTISTIC EXHIBITION BY MAURO ROMANO AND ANA PAULA TORRES

WarmtHub, the artistic-cultural space where the lobby of the Warmthotel in Rome is used as an exhibition area, presents "FORMS NOT FORMS OF THE SOUL", a two-person exhibition by Mauro Romano and Ana Paula Torres. It may be enjoyed at the Warmthotel at via Giuseppe Prezzolini, 5 - 00143 Rome EUR, every day from 10am to 10pm, until 31 October 2025.

The instinctive and dynamic painting of Mauro Romano combines with the plasticity and elegance of Ana Paula Torres' sculpture to give life to the exhibition "Forms Not Forms of the Soul".

The two artists display a dialogue between shapes and colors, light and shadow, solids and voids, light and dark, masculine and feminine. It becomes a true journey to discover that which is visible and invisible. Yes, because the fact that it is invisible does not mean that it does not exist - just like the soul.

The soul is the invisible part of humans. Its name derives from the Greek “ánemos” which means "wind" or "breath" - more so "breath" in the case of human beings. It can also be defined as the psychological or spiritual part of mankind, an immaterial but essential presence, which Romano and Torres seek to nourish with their art.

From Mauro Romano's wild relationship with shapes and colors - driven by an uncontrollable internal need to express himself - paintings are born where the form transforms, recreates or dissolves, to then present itself transfigured in the sculptural works of Ana Paula Torres. In the three-dimensionality of the full and rounded shapes, impetuosity dissolves in search of a calm place for the soul to be at rest.

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The exhibition can be enjoyed at the Warmthotel at Via Giuseppe Prezzolini, 5 – 00143 Rome, every day from 10am to 10pm, until 31 October 2025.

It will be possible to take guided tours upon reservation and purchase the artwork. For reservations and info contact the artist at the references below:

Artist: Mauro Romano

Tel: +39 340 108 9714

Email:  info@mauroromano.com

Instagram: mauroromanoartista

 

Artist: Ana Paula Torres

Tel: +39 333 234 0799

Email:  info@anapaulatorres.it

Instagram: anapaulatorres

 

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ANA PAULA TORRES BIO

Ana Paula Torres creates her artwork in an experimental context, with traditional and other unconventional materials for the plastic arts, mainly coming from waste products.

The exhibits are placed in a suspended scenario of fusion between the abstract and the figurative, suggesting to the user subjective interpretations that tend to vary depending on each individual’s life experience.

The sculptures uniquely bring to light the research on the invisible in the visible, on empty and full, on light and shadow - creating volumes that are sometimes soft, sometimes angular, which suggest shapes of both a naturalistic and anthropomorphic nature.

Mine is an informal, abstract work, or perhaps it would be better to say "not entirely figurative", which is based on material experimentation, on chromatic complexity, and on the importance that colors have for visual perception and the states of the soul.

“What do I see when I see?” This question is always with me as I carry out my studies on the invisible in the visible.

Amongst the artists and philosophers who nourish this theoretical and practical research of mine are

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Klee, Martin Heidegger, Wassily Kandinsky, Nato Frascà, Paul Cézanne, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, and Alberto Burri.

 

MAURO ROMANO BIO

Mauro Romano recreates completely reinvented real scenarios in which color, matter, flesh, and passions all join the spiritual dimension of humankind until reaching a form that, with great chaos, derives directly from within each of us.

My pictorial research comes from a sign that is clear, raw, devoid of three-dimensionality, instinctive, and aggressive.

It arises from an internal scream as a need for urgent expression, an instinct that borders on the absence of rules to seek a wild relationship with Shape and Color.

The "transformation of the form", fluid thoughts that move in space, now to assume singular appearances, now to dissolve into the background.

His language recalls Brut expressiveness: a need to externalize, through art, an uncontrollably dynamic inner world.

In fact, the pictorial material, free to take shape without restrictions on the surface, had proven to be the indisputable protagonist of the group of Co.Br.A artists who, in the mid-twentieth century, approached Brut Art and in particular with Dubuffet, sharing his poetics. Similarly maintaining a solid narrative path.