One of the most delicate and surprising room at the Venice Art Biennale is dedicated to Filipino artist Maria Taniguchi and her large sculptural canvases, to Italian artist Nedda Guidi and her beautiful ceramic art, and to Chinese artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang and her large, minimalist pastel paintings inspired by Agnes Mardin’s art. The energy generated by this conversation is awesome, not only for the refinement of colours and materials, but for the very creative spirit that guided the three artists, different in age and provenance, in their making such meticulous, perfect art. Taniguchi builds her art with tiny bricks slowly filling the canvas – a mental architecture of nuances of black. Guidi (1927–2015) was a philosopher and self-taught artist who experimented with modular enamelled ceramic. Wang organizes her painting along the purest Tao, adding to a minimalist grid disturbing elements like bamboo, fruit, and woks.
