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Presenting: Rosella Pessin Fida
RENCONTRES, Unfired clay
PERFORMANCE, CIRQUE JULES VERNES, AMIENS – FRANCE
June 12 – September 26th, 2010
Born in Turin, Italy, I share my life and work between Amiens, France and Houston, Texas.
Autodidact in my art since my departure from Italy when I was twenty years old, I have been working essentially with organic materials, clay, wood, wax, trying to translate in a more instinctive and immediate way my emotions into my work. Since 2001, in parallel to this work, I started working with bronze in Houston.
Although I feel deeply connected to all of these materials, clay, at its unfired stage, is the one I prefer to translate the human body strength and fragility, where can meet solitude, suffering, desire, passion and death.
My art relies on the reaction of the clay: volumes, fissures and tearing due to the pressure of my fingers and the weight of the material. The piece’s memory appears printed on the surface, as reminder of the pre-existing life of the material.
Through my performance work, I am in search of a connection between the material I work with (earth), and the exterior, the neighborhood, its inhabitants and its memory. For a few weeks I build in front of the viewers sculptures and leave them as remains of what happened. As I fight with the drying of the clay in order to accomplish the building part, their deconstruction has already begun: their shape and surface follow a more or less slow breakdown due to weather changes and the viewers’ reactions.
The end of the performance is the disappearance of the sculptures.
Rosella Fida
August 28th, 2010
RosellaPessinfida@yahoo.fr
www.thephoenixartgroup.com
www.rosellafida-art.com
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