“Astegno, a Magic Realism that
Americans really like” by
Giovanna Grossato article on
Il Giornale di Vicenza ,
Sunday 4 July 2004


It does exist deep inside many
of us another Ego, of eternal
youth and purity; it
represents all we could and
always wished to be.
This Ego we miss and
contemplate with tormenting
desire is the poetic core of a
young artist from Vicenza who
is now becoming successfull in
the United States. It is in
fact in a prestigious gallery
of St Louis, the “Third Floor
gallery on Washington”, that
are currently being exposed
some works of Evelyn Astegno,
together with other emerging
artists such as Craig Downs,
Julie Malone and Christopher
Gustave.
The group of paintings Evelyn
Astegno chose to display in
the collective Art Show are
extremely representative of
her style, soon well defined
from the beginning and matured
since she started her career.
They belong to a disquieting
Surrealism where characters,
probable but not assimilable
to any type completely rooted
in reality, represent probably
different aspects of the same
subject: the artist herself.
Her painting is a thought
translated ...

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