Floriana Rigo
The Odyssey Within: an Exhibition of Fine Art by Greek and Italian Artists
December 23 - January 12, 2012
Reception:
Thursday December 29, 2011 6-8 PM
Press Release
Floriana Rigo describes her elegant ink-and-brush works as “life-marks.” A practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan and a student of ancient Chinese culture, Rigo infuses these calligraphic images with delicacy and a strong sense of movement — hallmarks of classic Chinese art. The pieces employ a very basic palette, the energetic brushstrokes of black ink juxtaposed with neat red markings on simple white backgrounds, or with little natural inserts and different tints. However, their composition is anything but simple. On one level, the black brushstrokes feel casual, their dynamic strength bringing such primal forces as wind and ocean waves and mountains to mind. But they also resolve into graceful geometrical swirls and circles. The viewer is presented with a world in which the force of nature is tempered by the calming influences of Taoism and the art of the Chinese pictogram. Rigo says that one goal of these works was to make a “void” – one that gives off a unique, fulfilling reflective power.
Rigo has been making art in public since she was four, from theatre to poetry to visual and concrete arts and video.
Artist Statement
As an architect and poet, interested in the devices of art history, I have been involved in various conceptual experiences of languages and techniques over the years, starting with Tata and moving through many avant-garde movements, as in a battle. In 2003 my life changed radically practising Taichichuan. I developed a feeling of resonance with ink & brush Taoist paintings and my expression became a martial therapy as well. I’m exploring the concrete idea of how styles, time and space combine to make the void. I realize that my art forms, as life forms, materialize in the allusive strokes of an energetic process. I have never finished – I’m always ready to begin again.
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