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Gabriele Turola (from Ferrara’s International Convention’s Catalogue).

(…) A very meaningful painting by Amarilli, with title *Berta and The Wild Hunt* represents a woman (fairy or magician) playing the harp and leading a parade of animals (wild boars, rabbits, squirrels, etc.) who are crossing the sky, flying from the moon, as if drawn by an enchantment.

This emblematic character (Berta) refers to the artist herself who, through the magic power of music (and painting) with her fascinating notes, communicates with animals and leads them through the sky, capturing the attention of the viewers and inviting us to join too into this ‘wild run’, this liberating trip for our fantasy.

It’s not possible to avoid to think about Orpheus who tamed the feracious wild animals by playing a Lyre, or about Hamelin’s flute player, who enchanted rats with the notes of his flute forcing them to follow him? This painting reminds of Leonora Carrington’s fable surrealism.

Amarilli rides free on the wild horse of fantasy, exploring a world where supernatural creatures (centaurs, mermaids, tritons who play violins, celestial women whose bodies are made of constellations, Pan child, fairies, elfes) move around with complete ease, in scenarios characterized by a quiet and serene idyll; and they live, as if it was their natural habitat, on the sweet hills of Tuscany, between cypresses and emerald green fields.

In this way the leggendary elements make their appearance in daily life without upsetting the peace of the landscape, indeed harmonizing with it. Thanks to the fable dimension, the fracture between reality and imagination is abolished.

The artist from Milan lived six years in Norway, and thus she reaches out to the rich iconografic patrimony of the Nordic sagas. Her dreamlike creatures evocate the magic atmospheres from Theodor Kittelsen, norwegian artist who depicted between other things the trolls, giants covered with tree bark and musk, kings of the woods.

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Meri Raspini (from the catalogue of “Water Muses & Other Creatures”, Rapolano Terme, Siena)
…Amarilli who spent a number of years in the far lands of Norway, attracted, like a mermaid, by the mysterious fascination of the waters, with their unexplored
depths; by the mythological creatures, who become a constant subject in her
dream-like representations.

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Review (in italian) by Dott. Gianni Gallinaro, Art Critic.