Antoaneta Dzoni
Altar - Mixed Media on canvas, cm. 100 x 80
Private collection - Taurianova (R.C.)		  
They have written about her.....  
THE CHROMATIC DELIRIUM OF ANTOANETA DZONI
by TOMMASO PALOSCIA

Complex images for concepts which express tales both ancient and new, narrated in great spaces, where within their borders, one can make out presences which range from the religious to the esoteric. The colors that vary in shade and tone always lead back, if not disconcertingly, to a harmony which is more musical than picturesque. This is how the work of Antoaneta Dzoni appears to my eye. having come to Siena in order to study, she brought with her something of the Byzantine which conditions her visual expression, whether it be the iconography that outlines the indissolubility of the memory from the Middle Eastern approach to the solutions of form, or that very pleasing carpet of petals which are the tesserae of a fantastic recurrent mosaic. Sometimes the images cancels the detail drowning it in aggitated skies like waves of the ocean where the masses of blues or reds or yellows recur in tempests provoked by the imaginary, all under the watch of an enormous eye which scrutinizes imperiously but does not intimate. Scenes of chromatic delirium can suddenly subside, seemingly astonished as they gather around a nude figure which blooms amidst the flowers of a fantasy landscape, or predisposed as cuttings which fit together, as would pieces of a puzzle, in a delicate composition. The scrutinizing eye is almost everywhere, an ambiguos symbol of the existence of a mysterious concerted pact beyond the human realm. Pretexts for progressive painting whose master is color and whose sign furtively takes the shape of an improvised scene. So it is for a tapestry or a carpet, always reborn for formal inventions.

GIUSEPPE CIANI
When you meet a person of singular character, there is an obvious interest for those who live searching for something new. The adjective "singular" here is intended to mean "unique", more relevant as "simple", and as such it refers to a woman whose accomplishments include poet, translator of poets and painter........

ONE WOMAN TWO PATRIE of GIACOMO SCOTTI
[...] That is how I doscovered from this woman of the two patrie, two parallel seemingly different lives and two different approaches to life. On one hand was a woman full of energy, at times polemic, pratical, concrete, untiring and bold, and on the other hand there is the side of her hidden under the poetry which is perhaps the most profound side the real her, sweet, sentimental, alive to every sign of beauty and splendor in nature and man.....

THE CHROMATIC DELIRIUM OF ANTOANETA
by EVA DESIDERIO
[...] That which is described by Tommaso Paloscia as being a true "chromatic delirium" in the paintings of Dzoni, explodes above all in the backgrounds of these works where the color obtained through herbs, mixes with the cotton, with iron and with beeswax.......

THOSE PAINTINGS- MAGIC POETRY
of GILBERTO MADIONI
The magic of colors clothes the works of this eclectic woman phytobiologist, painter and poet. This is Antoaneta and her palette is perhaps the symbiosis of all of these alements. She is a fine artist with great cultural depth. The force and geniality of her painting, the fantasy in her colors, and the poetry in her forms is clear.....

ANTOANETA DZONI
of MARIO ISMAELE CASTELLANO ( Archbishop Emeritus)
It is not rare that foreigners who have come to Siena to study or for other reasons fall completely in love with our land to the point of taking up residence here themselves, but it does not often happen that one takes on such a profound possession of the Sienese life as to become a poet or painter through its inspiration.....