Maria Pia Lattanzi

Painting is an expression of experiences and emotions. It touches us and reveals the deepest layers of our consciousness. It accompanies us on our journey of personal development and self-discovery. For me, painting is a faithful companion through life—powerful in its essence, sincere and direct, insightful and reflective. It is my ally and my closest friend.

Blossom Room, egg tempera/Molino, 130×145 cm, 2026

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Flower Transformation, Egg Tempera/Molino, 120×140 cm, 2026

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Trilogy of Death, Eitempera/Molino, 2024

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Dead Deer in the Forest, egg tempera/Molino, 120×100 cm, 2022

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The Deer, Egg tempera/Molino, 130×140 cm, 2013

In her artistic practice, Maria Pia Lattanzi focuses particularly on animals. The instinctive and immediate nature, the essential quality, and the primal animal power that animals embody and symbolize shape the artist’s work. She has been working on her series “Animal Images” since 2013. In her works, animals always represent the primal and untamed.
“Animals are where emotion and empathy reside,” says Lattanzi. The themes of her work include connection, relationships, purity, and wildness, as well as humanity’s place in nature. Her aim is to express and convey a slice of her personal reality as concisely as possible.
When we observe nature and animals, we always see ourselves reflected in them—with our own perspectives and interpretations of the world. Humanity is mirrored in nature. Humans recognize themselves in animals. Animals are pure, genuine, wild, and unpretentious. This touches us precisely where we, as humans, would prefer to withdraw. In our depths.
Thus, an encounter with an animal—for example, a deer or a wolf—can also be seen as an invitation to introspection and to a genuine encounter with our vulnerable essence. With our own deeper nature.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)Nature is constant and eternal, pointing beyond ourselves.
A counterpoint to a world in flux, a fixed point of reference in a world where everything is becoming fluid and losing its center—an eerily comforting constant, the last enduring link between what was, what has become, and what will be. Timeless.
Nature seems to transform in the same way over and over again. The confidence that the sun will always rise, that the leaves will eventually fall, that the apple will ripen, that the buds will open. It seems to have been the same for centuries: clear dew on blossoms. Year after year, day after day, we trust. Nature alone manages to transcend this contradiction between change and permanence. It unites both in a principle of eternal cycles.
If there is one thing we as humans know, it is that we are part of this cycle.
A hope.
A comfort.
Mag. Barbara Mithlinger, Kleine Galerie Wien