Micaela Cioc Signorini's paintings - solitary nocturnal acts - have a decidely narrative form. Each work is a self-contained world created, literally, in the space of a single night. Her pictorial opus is composed of all these solitary, nocturnal feats, practiced repeatedly for years.
Rarely have the works been on view and, reminiscent of notes in a personal diary, they still contain the same sort of coherence. In fact, taken together the works constitute a narrative progression - in pictorial rather than linguistic terms - and rare formulated like a story. Nights are indispensable to Micaela's world; instead of generating monsters, the night represents a series of imaginary places. Portrayed in strokes of color, the painted surfaces issue from instinctive or automatic processes based on a succession of compiled elements, or superimposed layers of paints or erasures; underlyng the final result of this progression there is, inevitably, a formal structure. Micaela considers painting a concept of colored materials; pigment is its own language, insular in its meaning, and constituting its own point of reference.
The actual spatial composition of the works, that is, the way the paint is applied, is spread over the totality of the support and attests to the immediacy of the gestures she uses. Her execution is increasingly automatic and quick, aimed at converting even the outmost edges of the canvas with paint. Her paintings are created in the space of one night with no ulterior retouching. Even the erasures are performed immediately, and as a consequence leave no room for regrets or second-toughts. This is painting in instantaneous language, like the externalization of consciousness, a letter written with no first draft, a direct expression of the self.

Lucilla Meloni