self portrait and beyond, 1999

"The European character of Pertile contrasts with the informative pragmatism of much Anglo-Saxon art through the restitution of a synthetic and reflective dimension to painting, capable of questioning its own status, its own function within the history of our time ."

"A modern Flemish or an authentic hyperrealist: this is how Livia Pertile appears to me today, who shows that, in addition to her hand and her mind, she possesses a great cleanliness that, starting in her head, arrives directly in the painting ."