[New-Poetry] an interview

[Anny Ballardini]

Just translated this, thought it might be interesting.





Interview with Rossana Buremi by Chiara Agnello

 

Since several years your practice has focused around pictorial research in the widest sense of the term. Having abandoned hyper-realism with big-sized canvases, you represent erotic scenes by spacing from a naïf style - as in the bas-riliefs made with pongo - to the quick and light gesture of the series on tables I Prefer Sex to Love, closer to Japanese iconography. What fuels your highly imaginative universe?

A sort of monomania guides my universe and fuels all my work. The series of the sofas was linked to a solid reality of an Euclidean depth in which there was the will of not letting the quality of the represented object be exclusively owned by volumetric parameters, but oriented to a reading of space, as if there was a going back to Byzantinism, to that by now lost way because history preferred another one; as a romantic vision of history's cyclicity, of the eternal return. Such a reading does not only have to do with painting but also with a social reality, with human relationships, with measures and distances. For example such biodimensionality applied to relationships, allows me to read the relationship between victim and executioner: the first is the lengthening of the other, a sort of imaginative segment, while a tridimensional reading - dedicated to doing charity to reach salvation to which I counter the expansion of waste - would be the submission of the one to the other.

Such monomania is addressed then towards an erotic imagery for different motives. One of these is that by eroticism it keeps and highlights that character which is its own and that in my first works was hidden, almost as a sort of decency, and that now becomes explicit and visceral: vice. Its confidential nature remains intact because it does not have any popular, educational aid; we are not trying to corrupt, because corruption has already been established between the artwork and the one who observes it, that is, it is as present as in the artwork as much as in the one who observes it. Another reason is eroticism that allows me to reveal the obsessive character of monomania that obliges a total abandonment to the laws that it dictates, since art cannot be a treatment for anybody, but in some way it is my personal safety. In an erotic theme you can feel that feeling of obstinacy which is typical of any need, that guilt, that I do not want because I cannot.

 

Your characters, in fact, even if they abandon themselves to unrestrained and multicolored behaviors, seem not to want to represent actual spaces of freedom.

Freedom is something serious. To represent it in an adequate way you should know it. The fact is that you are talking to a slave of vice. I work with mathematical rules and quantic probabilities to survive. Not casually, the space of my characters, be them erotic or not, is a space with a margin of and extremely limited survival, with subjects that interact one with the other in a monotonous way where there is a smell of amusement, of a fun fair, but an amusement of brothel, of a law court, of a confessional.

 




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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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