About her Prof. Sgarbi said: "Angelica Cioppa proves to be a sophisticated artist especially in dealing with the mysterious world of flowers. Her paintings have a good design and a bright and lively color scheme."

…The artist does not paint flowers, but “the flower”. These flowers take on an autonomous and aggressive character, spaces of color composed generally of pure matter, often tending towards deformity that in some paintings leads to an estrangement of the flowers itself.

Occasionally the abstraction is brought about by a butterfly moving its wings in a circular motion almost stylizing the flower and setting it in motion.  Almost all these flowers assert themselves in a myriad of shades, tonalities, timbers or in any case in colorist excesses intended to grasp a natural beauty at its extreme limit and then turn it inside out so as to reveal its highest inventive expression.

The inspiration intrinsic to these forms is revealed by a creative extravaganza, which imbues form and meaning, almost as though every flower wished to be the secret message of a soul in search of serenity.

The repetitive content, rather than becoming thematic monotony, becomes an insistent urgency to find a motif, legible in a thousand ways, linked to its intrinsic natural mysterious quality.

The world of flowers presents itself to the painter as a rich legend of variegated elements, which exist vigorously and which perhaps are thoughtful (we would like to think) about their destiny as beauties worn by time and forewarned as to what their end will be.  This is the end of all things beautiful.  They are flowers who seem to ask the sympathy of those who look at them so they may survive and invite one to gather the most profound meaning as live quivering elements, open to their vibrant sensuality.

I like to repeat that in these canvases one witnesses the need to use one’s own language, not to describe something, but to interpret it while giving it a deeply personal significance.  No banal decoration, if anything, what predominates is a participation in the vitality of the subject represented, as though there were the will to gather its vibration and meanings.

The merit of this sensitive and reserved painter who all of a sudden has burst forth upon the scene must be recognized.  She could well afford to broaden her repertory and range of content so skilful is her sense of color and her ability to interpret natural elements which she conjures up from an anonymous world…

Dino Carlesi