Marignana Arte is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Préludes o della forma in-attesa, which will open to the public on Saturday 4 October 2025. The group show presents the work of three young artists – Greta Ferretti, Olga Lepri, and Sara Pacucci – who, through painting, explore the theme of waiting as a space for poetic and artistic reflection. All three artists, under the age of 30, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In music, Préludes are short pieces performed in an extemporaneous manner. In opera, they are
often played with the curtain closed, before the performance of the main work. The term derives from the Latin praeludere (prae– “before” and ludĕre “to practise, to play”) and, in a broader sense, means “to announce, to give a sign of what is to come.” The act of “playing” (with words, sounds, or colours) is therefore the moment that precedes and, in some way, generates the work that will emerge from it—as if in the prelude every possibility were still open, undefined, suspended, and, in a certain sense, awaiting. The paintings by Sara Pacucci, Greta Ferretti, and Olga Lepri exhibited in the show all investigate—each from her own original perspective—this “space of waiting” where dream and reality, vision and concealment, memory and presence blur and merge to make room for the arrival of the unforeseen. […] “Painting conceals and reveals,” Olga Lepri has said in an interview, “it is a system of layers and juxtapositions, of points of light and contrasts: it highlights the non-obviousness of reality. The uncertainty of the visible provides an opportunity to trigger the imaginative and interpretative activity of reality.”