Serena Rossi @ artavita

Serena Rossi

Location: Italy

BIOGRAPHY

Serena Rossi was born in Milan, on March 6, 1972 and here she lives and works. In 1999 she graduated in pharmacy. In parallel with the scientific studies, she used painting and photography as a means of expression. She attended several courses in visual arts, including the one at Pomodoro Foundation for engraving in 2010, and also various workshop courses starting from 2012. Since 2002 she is actively participating in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Some of her works are permanently exhibited in private and public collections, including the open-air museum in Camo (Cuneo) and Gravina di Puglia and the dynamic museum for peace in Savona. Since 2012 the artist is present with her poems in various Italian anthologies and other publications regarding contemporary poetry. She has already received several awards for them and she was also awarded with the Neptune for Art and Culture and with the Spartacus Prize for Human Rights. She also published her book of poems entitled "Nel divenire calmo dell'infinito" ed. Caosfera. In early 2016 she published a second book with poems as "e-book" - Ho chiesto al mare di piangere -.

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STATEMENT

My art is realized through informal works, I don't use brushes but random casting of colors, collage and assemblages of different materials on paper, canvas or wood supports. I explore the world of emotions through an extensive research of materials, even if different from the ones traditionally used in Fine Arts, such as industrial solvent enamels and the use of visual media including painting, sculptures and installations. I often find myself reflecting on naturalistic themes and on the alienation of city life. These thoughts have generated my cloth, nail, or plastic works on walls or on wood. With the semi-abstract form of a cloth and metal flower, I try to represent the "Feminine" that, due to her natural beauty, can grow also in the cement cracks of the cities. Another theme very interesting for me is Time, considered as physical, intangible and imaginative dimension and therefore measurable only as trace-sign-image that time leaves impressed on objects and bodies. Here the objects of daily use, like a cloth or a mat, become the subject and contents of the work, being a part of the artist's life.

“Indian Summer”