Marta Ravasi at Galerie Falk Losniza in Basel

Galerie Falk Losniza announces Marta Ravasi’s solo exhibition LE ORE, in the gallery’s upper exhibition space. Marta Ravasi presents in LE ORE a group of small-format still lifes, with the exhibition title referring to the hours of the day and the changes of light. The works emerge from a practice of repetition, reduction, and variation. Similar motifs recur, yet each painting develops from independent painterly decisions. Central to Ravasi’s work is the materiality of painting. Her images arise from a sequence of operations – rubbing, layering, erasing – that remain visible. Color forms in the process as a broken mixture. Forms lose their contours and appear as atmospheric condensations. In a present shaped by the circulation and overproduction of images, this practice gains in precision. The decision to work with a limited medium, small formats, and simple motifs articulates a concentrated mode of perception. Still life functions as
an instrument for determining the conditions of image-making, experience, and time, for reflecting on painting as such – and in doing so reveals itself to be strikingly contemporary.

Marta Ravasi was born in Merate (Lecco), Italy, in 1987. She lives and works in Milan. Among her solo exhibitions are Alla Prima at La Centrale, France (2025), Fresca at Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris (2025), Solo Geometry at Painter Painting Paintings (2024), Diez Gallery, Amsterdam (2024), Bucce at Acappella, Naples (2023), Planet Caravan at Sonnenstube, Lugano (2021), and Violette di Marte at Fanta Spazio, Milan (2017). Her recent group exhibitions include ON / OFF, Cosmo Domestico e Confini Espansi at Collezione Agovino, Naples (2025), Portofranco curated by Rossella Farinotti in Castelfranco Veneto (2025), Cold Enough For Snow at Workplace, London (2025), Il Verso della Lumaca at Galleria 1/9, Rome (2025), and Pittura italiana oggi curated by Damiano Gullì at Triennale Milano (2023–2024).