Manuela Generali

Drexel Gallery presents Derivas, an exhibition of the work of Manuela Generali.

Like Manuela Generali's unmanned ships, the present advances relentlessly, drawing in its wake the trail of memory, which little by little will end up vanishing in the dark waters of time. Painting as invocation is a constant practice for an artist who relies more on atmospheres and sensations than on the faithful reproduction and nostalgic assembly of the past.

In the words of Luis Carlos Emerich, “Therefore, more than a visual chronicle of personal experiences, wanderings and longings, Generali makes the experience of displacement an existential constant, or more precisely, the very being of existence”.

In Derivas the transatlantic liners continue their primordial thrust, sailing oceans without limits or ports, following horizons that stubbornly “move away as they move forward”. Their perpetual transit points to the conviction that origins and destinations are fictions or chimeras, and the only vital and concrete thing is the present will to move.

— Julián Stubbs Generali