Long walk by Marika Vicari
Discover Long Walk by Marika Vicari. An essential and contemplative work in which a rarefied forest stretches across a silent landscape, inviting the viewer’s gaze to wander through it. Nature and memory meet in a suspended dimension. The work is on view in the exhibition Vivere l’estinzione at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Gallery in Varese.
The artist: Marika Vicari
Marika Vicari is a contemporary Italian artist who explores the relationship between humanity and nature through images of trees, forests, and rarefied landscapes. Using graphite, watercolor, and supports such as paper and wood, she creates essential compositions in which the landscape becomes a metaphor for memory, fragility, and human experience.
Description
In Long Walk, Marika Vicari creates an expansive landscape through a succession of trees that shape the space and guide the viewer’s gaze into the distance. The forest appears silent and rarefied, suspended in an almost timeless atmosphere.
Graphite defines trunks, distances, and transparencies with remarkable delicacy. Some trees emerge with greater intensity, while others gradually dissolve into the background, evoking the shifting and elusive nature of memory.
The title Long Walk suggests a slow and contemplative journey. The forest thus becomes a space to be explored with the gaze, an inner landscape where nature, time, and memory converge.
Conclusion
Long Walk captivates through its ability to transform the forest into an intimate and silent landscape, inviting the viewer on a journey through nature and memory. Discover this work in the exhibition Vivere l’estinzione at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Gallery in Varese and immerse yourself in the poetic world of Marika Vicari.


