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“It is an art that does not shout, but whispers;
it does not impose, but questions.”
Elisa Larese Moro
In the four-handed painting practice of Maurizio Pichierri and Maria Shakova, art becomes a living space—a mirror of consciousness and a tool for exploring the deeper layers of reality. Their collaborative work inhabits the liminal space between abstraction and introspection, inviting viewers not only to observe, but to feel, reflect, and engage on a profound inner level.
Their resolutely non-figurative style is not a retreat from reality, but a determined attempt to transcend its surface and capture its essence. Each canvas is constructed through stratified gestures, layers of pigment, and tactile energy that express emotions, memories, and mental states. Every brushstroke is the result of a shared rhythm—a psychic and physical dialogue where ego is set aside in favor of co-creation.
Choosing to paint together on a single surface is a radical act. It means surrendering authorship, embracing vulnerability, and building a visual language rooted in intuition and mutual trust. From this dynamic interplay between masculine and feminine, chaos and structure, reason and emotion, emerges a fluid visual grammar—one that speaks directly to the viewer as a silent invitation to conscious participation.
Works titled Parental Memory, Beautiful Ugly Girl, Smart Heart, and Decision Making function not as mere titles but as conceptual gateways. They suggest questions rather than answers, each one opening onto existential themes: memory, perception, identity, love. For Pichierri and Shakova, painting is a form of inquiry, a way to think with the hands and see with the spirit.
The act of painting, in their view, is never definitive. It is a threshold—an energetic space where thoughts, desires, impulses, and silences converge and find momentary harmony.
Among their most emblematic works is Extraordinary (2023), created on MDF using oil and mixed media. Dense with material and vibrant with gesture, the piece unfolds as a mental landscape, pulsing with invisible dynamics and emotional resonance. It celebrates individuality while affirming openness toward the world—a delicate equilibrium between inner urgency and relational presence.
As the international art critic Galina Mazheikina noted, their paintings “speak to a restless and thinking viewer,” one capable of recognizing in the painted matter the echoes of their own inner truths. In this sense, Pichierri and Shakova’s work is not only aesthetic—it is ethical. It proposes a vision of art as a space of encounter, an act of philosophical resistance, and a call to awareness.
In an age of hyper-visual noise and flattened meanings, their work restores depth to what cannot be seen. It does not impose—it suggests. It does not explain—it listens. It calls for time, presence, and a willingness to see beyond appearance.
And perhaps this is its greatest power: to remind us that to see is, above all, to be conscious.
Extraordinary, First exhibited in August 2023 at the Modern Art Fair 3F Monaco, Espace Fontvieille—an international cultural initiative launched under the patronage of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
Internationally recognized, the work has been exhibited in major art capitals such as Moscow, Rome, Dubai, Qatar, Milan, and London.
Awarded in Monaco with the title “Most Eccentric Expression of Love in Contemporary Art”, the piece was praised for its intelligent and emotional balance between individual expression and human interaction.
Extraordinary is more than a painting—it is a statement. It emphasizes the viewer’s ability to think and perceive the world in an original, non-trivial way: unique, distinctive, unconventional, and deeply human.
© Elisa Larese Moro per Tablinum Cultural Management, 2025
Pichierri Art is the expressive world conceived by the Italian artist Pichierri, where tradition dialogues with experimentation, and every creation becomes a living encounter between vision and matter.
Anchored in a rich cultural legacy and shaped by a multidisciplinary approach, Pichierri’s artistic language moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, and installation. His work is a continual exploration of transformation—where textures narrate silent stories, surfaces are carved with memory, and color is not merely seen, but felt.
At the core of his practice lies a tactile poetics: a sensitivity to the material that transcends form and invites the viewer into a realm of emotional resonance. In each piece, the layering of pigment, the interplay of volume and void, and the presence of symbolic archetypes converge to evoke a deeply human reflection on time, fragility, and inner landscapes.
Pichierri Art does not seek to impose meaning, but rather to open a space for contemplation—one where the artwork becomes a threshold, a suspended moment between the visible and the invisible. His style balances refined formal clarity with instinctive gesture, creating works that are at once sophisticated and raw, lyrical and elemental.
Exhibited in Italy and abroad, Pichierri’s work continues to resonate with a wide and diverse audience. Through a unique visual language rooted in authenticity and sensorial depth, Pichierri Art invites us to rediscover the transformative power of matter shaped by thought—and of thought made visible through art.
SELECTED ARTWORKS
Extraordinary, 2023. 77×77 cm, oil and mixed media.