Criticism

"Enigmatic realities of a pictorial ABSTRACT, of geometric worthiness, entwine the creative fantasy of Maria Pia Malerba, an artist who loves 
impressing upon canvas the impossible dream of Evasion and LIBERTY.
Images difficult to read, for sure ! but full of meaning.
The artist tunes her creative inspiration on the intimate message, led with naturalness in the mysterious, unreal universe, where her soul resides."

Arts-master Vincenzo Abati
School of Fine Arts - Lecce (Italy)


"Maria Pia Malerba's abstract painting is not casually born, but springs from a precise philosophical-artistic discipline, capable of bestowing on her 
artworks deep and unconventional meanings.
All of this can be understood only via a careful observation, sustained by inquisitive curiosity and predisposition by the observator on discovering 
the reality in the seeming expressive freedom of abstraction.
In Maria Pia's artwork, experiences extrapolated by the poetics of informal, of abstractism and of constructionism, well-amalgamated, unify 
themselves and organically converge, giving birth to an aesthetic language persuasively original.
Her abstract vision of the real is solidly built thanks to a perfect matter-color symbiosis: the artist puts the structure of the artwork into the hands 
of these elements, obtaining constantly an equilibrium between shape, color and space.
However, the shape-color equilibrium does not modify the vitality of the act, on the contrary, said vitality consolidates the equilibrium, enriching it 
of subtle woofs of freeing conceptuality.
Essentially abstraction is, in its art-making process, a tenet of the creative process, suitable to visualize and give voice to instances typical of 
the contemporary art.
These  instances find proper answers in extensive artworks, where color creates and visualizes an interior reality rich of oniric components.
In Maria Pia's artwork, through lacerations of matter and chromatic contrasts, it becomes easy to decode messages of great value, devolved upon 
an aesthetic language not epidermic, but profound and with remarkable cultural depth."

Arts-master Nicola Cesari
School of Fine Arts - Lecce (Italy)