Extraordinary and established artist from Catania, she showed her artworks in museums, exhibitions and public offices in Sicily and throughout Italy, France, Belgium, United States, South Korea, and she was cited in the 29th COMED Modern Art Yearbook.

 

Over the years, driven by the impulse to express her emotions and her own unrestrained fantasy in an immediate and spontaneous way, she has tried her hand at the use of the most various pictorial techniques and in the increasingly expressive use of colors, representing real subjects transferred and transformed by her fervent imagination. In her works, the ability to blend the beauty, elegance and sensuality of the female figures with the harmony of the elements of nature stands out above all, while in the male figures the most incisive and salient characters are able to arouse the curiosity and emotions of the observer. With skillful use of colors such as green, red or burnt earth, which refer to those of nature, and the use of techniques such as spatula oil painting, the subjects of Maria Luisa Consoli are striking for their immediacy and ability to unleash and free the imagination: thus, the hair of a young girl hidden among the leaves is transformed into red flaming corals, or white strings of pearls, or into tree branches confused with the sinuous shapes of the body in metamorphosis. In particular, in mythological subjects the theme of transformation allows the author to portray sensual figures of nymphs or goddesses fused and confused with the enveloping and harmonious forms of nature, dragged by virile forces of satyrs or gods, bringing the imagination back to fantastic stories that symbolize our deepest vital impulses.

 

For Maria Luisa Consoli, art is therefore the ability to excite and involve the senses and the imagination of the observer, dragging him into an imaginative world of emotions and colors. In her work, the influence of the most disparate arts is evident, from photography to sculpture, from literature to music. It is no coincidence that in 2010 the writer Giusi Contraffatto published "Forza d'Ali", a text in which each painting by Maria Luisa is accompanied by a poetic lyric; and how one of her most beautiful creations is the portrait of a great italian singer deeply linked to Sicily like Lucio Dalla, in the work significantly entitled "Un bolognese siciliano (A Sicilian from Bologna)".

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E. C.