Catalog created on the occasion of the personal exhibition THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE of Paola Angelini, overall winner of Osvaldo Licini by Fainplast Award 2025, open from 13 December 2025 to the 15 March 2025 at the Contemporary Art Gallery Osvaldo Licini of Ascoli Piceno.
“To Renoir, questioned about the right distance from which to observe his paintings, it was enough to answer: “at arm's length”. For Paola Angelini this measure is fundamental. Approaching and moving away is not just a visual act, but retracing the artist's steps in constructing the work, between the precision of the detail and the vastness of the whole. In this cycle, the hand does not simply perform, but caresses images […]”
From the text “The Year of the Serpent: painting as a mute of the soul” by Alessandro Zechini.




