il cunicolo delle volpi

The Obscure and the Marvellous

 

The search for Arché, the essential element that is present in every kingdom of the universe: the animal, the mineral, the imaginative, the real, the space, is the outstanding pictorial theme of Alessandra Rossi.For her, the oneiric frequentation of many life’s experiences is not psychoanalytic, but a metaphor of  investigation, personal revelation. The creativity and the skill of the painter, succeeds to condense the thought which goes beyond the rational, the unmentionable, changing the “Obscure” in “Marvellous”, because finally visible, representable, then capable of being investigated.Alessandra gives herself permission to “contaminate”, to compose with horrid, with marvellous, with tiring, with ethereal, with face, with tail, with scale, with plumage, with skin, with water, with fire, with soil… a being that represent the soul of the universe, like an “Alma mater ”, giving it a body which collide the audience with deep emotions and conflicting feelings, enveloping but never devastating.The artist’s inspiration, puts in a “way down to Hell”, creatures with opaline skulls “smoothed” till the consumption, beings which have lost the flesh owing to the putrefaction, beings in which skeleton’s pieces of different nature melt themselves like accumulating a stronger resistance in bodies with fragile sheaths, evanescent, which live in a world where happen mysterious events, correlate to a mythology instinctively known.The pictorial side, the most emblematic, is the ground-plan choose for the beginning of the collection: the brain like an isolated element, independent, but melted, duplicated with other brains, represented with expanded and superimposed laces in which, like trough X-ray, we find cerebral evolutions, where to sound good and bad thoughts, fluently and knotty, removed but present in memory, in the antithetic becoming “Obscure and Marvellous”, double presence in the universe to the edge of being, worn out by becoming, in a perpetual presence of life, of death and of resurrection.

 

Patrizia Baldi, 2005