Toppi's gifts as an artist are too extensive to list here comprehensively.
Besides, no words can really capture the art of any artist. At best, words can point the way and then it's up to the viewer to let the art carry him or her off to those places where words fail. That is why a show such as this one is invaluable. It strips away, as much as it is possible to do so, the interface between artist and audience and puts them together where, for a brief moment, they can become one.
