From July 17 to August 7, figurative painter Toavinjanahary Marianno will present an exhibition at Is'Art Galerie where surrealism becomes the privileged language for probing the contradictions and mysteries of love. Toavinjanahary Marianno will explore the paradoxes of love through a series of paintings and drawings.

How can one represent a feeling that reason cannot explain? How can one translate into images what escapes all logic? These are the questions around which "When Love is Surreal," the new exhibition by Toavinjanahary Marianno, has been constructed. Running from July 17 to August 7 at Is'Art Galerie in Tiers-Lieu Mahatazana, the artist invites the public to enter a universe where philosophical reflection meets the power of imagination.

Dedicated to erotic love, this exhibition develops both an intellectual and emotional approach to this universal feeling. The works question its nature, its utility, its relationship to suffering, its atypical manifestations, and the limits of rationality. Rather than providing definitive answers, they invite visitors to reflect on the multiple dimensions of love and the paradoxes that accompany it.

Faced with the impossibility of explaining this phenomenon through logic alone, Toavinjanahary Marianno chooses to shift focus toward the unconscious. Surrealism becomes the means of expressing what cannot be formulated by rational thought. Dreams, the irrational, and inner states occupy a central place in this artistic approach, where intuition takes precedence over explanation. This reflection, close to philosophy, finds its culmination in a creation where surrealism appears as an answer to the limits of reason.

A figurative painter and draftsman, Andrianasolo Toavinjanahary Marianno pursues artistic research resolutely turned toward surrealism. Inspired by the early representatives of this movement, he takes up its foundations while adapting them to contemporary realities. His work consists of transcending the limits of consciousness to explore the imagination and that space situated between wakefulness and unconsciousness, where forms, images, and buried truths emerge.

Through painting and drawing, he thus creates profoundly intuitive works that invite viewers to go beyond appearances and explore the invisible territories of the mind. With "When Love is Surreal," Toavinjanahary Marianno continues this artistic quest by offering an immersion into a universe where emotion, imagination, and dream become the keys to understanding one of the most complex feelings of human experience.