The Victor Gallery, located at 232 E 59th St, in New York, presents – from May 29 to the end of June – a tribute exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist Ariane Hafizi Marianovich (1981-2015). A graduate of the Parsons School of Art (1999–2004), Ariane developed a deeply personal body of art, combining visual memory, the inner architecture of the soul and a silent lyrical sensibility that remains latent in each of her pieces.
This exhibition is a spiritual revival of his legacy. The selected works, from private collections and the family collection, allow us to go through the different stages of his creative process, from his first studies in New York to the last compositions he made shortly before his death. Each canvas, each stroke and each texture dialogues with an inner world that Ariane was able to translate with honesty and intensity.
The artist seemed interested in harmonizing opposites: the organic and the architectural, the intuitive and the structural, the material and the ethereal, the expressive and the subtle. This fertile tension, far from being resolved, vibrates like a chord sustained over time, giving his work a symbolic dimension that transcends it. It is not difficult to see in his painting a kind of map of the soul, drawn with the same delicacy with which a ruin is raised or a dream is evoked.
The tribute at Victor Gallery also seeks to open a space for contemplation, reflection and dialogue on the place of feminine sensitivity in contemporary art. In times when the image tends to become superficial, Ariane Hafizi's work invites us to a deep immersion, where every form, every silence and every void has something to say.