The artist searches for and collects her own "raw material" in the external environment dear to her, near her home in the Roman countryside, then proceeding to create artifacts that retain their material consistency, shaping three-dimensional objects capable of evoking forms recognizable, precisely because they belong to human culture, to its path made up of historical and social stratification.
The research carried out by Francesca Romana Pinzari in recent years has also focused on the creation of works composed of horsehair and human hair. The use of the organic element becomes a relic for the artist, an element with a strong magical value, capable of transferring physical and not only spiritual immortality to the depicted subject.
In his most recent works, bramble branches give shape to sculptures and installations.
The exhibition winds through the rooms on the ground floor with works belonging to the Natura Naturans series, in which natural elements such as thorny shrubs and intertwined leaves will form light sculptures, and crystals of salts and sulphates will symbolize the mutation of matter in a path of mystical asceticism .
On the upper floor of the gallery there are some works created with women's and men's hair. These are portraits made with locks of hair, in the form of a mandala which, in the Buddhist and Hindu religious tradition, constitutes the symbolic representation of the cosmos.
The exhibition closes ideally with a series of drawings made with copper sulphate on wood veneer.
Biographical notes
Francesca Romana Pinzari was born in Perth, (Australia) in 1976. She lives in Rome. You work with video, installation, performance, sculpture and painting.
Since 1999 he has exhibited his works in Italy and abroad, among the main exhibitions we mention: in 2016 Transition of Energy in the museums of Kajaani and Kotka in Finland and at the Kunsthalle in Bratislava, in 2015 Performance Nightal Museum Galeria Miejska BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland , at the Hubei Region Art Festival in China, in 2013 in the exhibition Despite everything, Galleria Oltredimore Galleria + in Bologna, in 2012 Catarifringenze at Pelanda, MACRO Testaccio Rome, at the Bethanien Museum in Berlin with a 24h project room during the Arty Party exhibition , at the traveling exhibition Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction which stopped in Berlin, Rome, London, New York and Mexico City, in 2011 at the Short Video Show review of Italian video art in Kathmandu' in Nepal, in 2010 at the Expectations exhibition at the Invisible Dog gallery New York, at the international performance session at the Yes Foundation in Holland, at the ADD Video Art Festival of the Province of Rome.
She has won numerous awards including: the Riccardo Costantini Contemporary Special Prize at the Arteam Cup 2016, in 2011 the Young Talents award of the Municipality of Rome and a residency at the SVA in New York, in 2010 she was a finalist at the Celeste Prize and selected for the exhibition Expectations in New York.
Francesca Romana Pinzari, Holy Thorn n1, 2016, intertwined bramble branches. Ph Andrea Veneri
