Michela Ghisetti at the ALBERTINA Museum Vienna

Michela Ghisetti: Tutto is the title of the new exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum Vienna. It emerged from Ghisetti's series of paintings of the same name, which she launched in 2016. Large and small dabs dominate the canvases of the abstract paintings. They are meant to depict social diversity and call for respectful living in which everyone finds a place. Ghisetti's works from the last two pandemic-ridden years in particular convey this message more strongly.

The artist was born in Italy in 1966 and has lived in Vienna since the early 1990s. Long stays in various African countries influenced her painting, in which she deals with integration, diversity and the social role of women. She uses the full range of painterly means from photorealistic images to abstraction. Ghisetti's impressive craftsmanship is less important to her than her philosophical statements, to which she seeks the appropriately correct form. Inspired by her years in Africa, Ghisetti also makes small sculptures from feathers and the like.

Ghisetti's multifaceted oeuvre is now being presented for the first time in a comprehensive retrospective. The ALBERTINA Museum Vienna will show her works, some of them previously unpublished, from December 17, 2021 to March 20, 2022.