Every exhibition of hers pays an homage to her great teacher Marc Chagall, whom initiated her into the realm of painting and whom she followed up to the moment of his disappearance. Her work is found in many museums as well as in public and private collections and her altar pieces are found in many European and American churches. She is a life member of the prestigious association founded by Colvert in 1663, the Société des Artistes Français.

That the artworld coincides with that of the imagination is a fact that no-one can contest, even when the expressive tools of the artist are those of the smallest domestic reality, these if the artist is really such, or rather if he is a poet on top of being a creator - yes that convert into a magic wand that makes them a projection of fantasy (and vice-versa). But if from the beginning the fantastic stimuli belong to an imaginative sphere that tends to disassociate itself from reality, or that even the latter, only encaptures the elements that can accentuate the faculty of transiguration then such an artist lives his own adventure. Entirely above the lines of his score and immerses himself in the ultrasounds that are a more acute sensibility to perceive. Mario Monteverdi

Her expressive language is rich of stimuli and impulses that come from the depth of her soul, continuously spiritualised by a fantasy that in the sphere of art is free of any fear. In her work you can taste the vastness of the pictorial world. "Un fare grande", "A great doing" to use Rinascimento terminology. The representational structure in her work dilates itself developing a flattering and captivating monumentality. Teodosio Martucci

Marlena Ratti hovers over painting with the wings of a butterfly invented by Odilon Redon. She covers her collages and vibrant compositions with a potent sensual anxiety. Her questions do not remain inadvertent. They call upon the curious habitual observer of this end of century. Jean Monneret

Intelligent, alive, vital and free from arid intellectuality, of symbols and concepts that demonstrate the poverty of the pictorial world. True painting, immediate, new for me . Very alive Livio Garzanti

The style and creative behaviour of Marlena Ratti seems to take on an ironic immorality from the rhythmic tensions that were so dear to the Belle Époque expression. Even her way, dramatic and sarcastic, to seize the violent and terrible aspects of society and culture, appear to belong to deformities and caricatures born of Expressionism to achieve a modern liberty of the image. Rossana Bossaglia

She is a cultured painter and has assimilated all the depth of the history of art, particularly Expressionism and Surrealism. A lesson that nonetheless, in her work, appears to be well conjugated with the tradition of italian painting. This is how the solitude of the soul in the visualisation of her pieces, and the moral rigour that accompanies it, remind us of the work of Michelangelo. Giorgio Barbero

It would be auspicious for the beneficiary of her art, knowing the artist's work in more detail to encounter "the two great canvas (400X150) that celebrate Sant'Agostino. Perfect in their compositional equilibrium and examples of constructive knowledge, are rendered complete through the richness of spiritual references. They mark through their perspective a new point of arrival in the climax of aesthetic and moral concentration..... Even in these two paintings nature is skimmed off as it is in luminous presences, but it is alive and present. We are describing a work that has been studied and constructed piece by piece, solidly and in unity, a type of positive Guernica of human struggle". Giorgio Barbero