ROSA FOSCHI		Biography
carte libri film		Catalog
curated by Pietro Gaglianò
27 september – 8 november 2024

Il Ponte gets its exhibition season going after the summer break with a solo show dedicated to an artist whom the gallery has worked with for a long time – Rosa Foschi, film-maker, photographer and painter. After studying the classics and arts, Rosa Foschi went to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and, during the end of the ‘60s and the first years of the ‘70s, makes various animated short films produced by E. Gagliardo’s “Corona Cinematographic”, currently digitalized and deposited at the Cineteca di Bologna. Three of these, Amour du cinéma (1969), Ma femme (1970) and Amore e Psiche (1971), are projected in the lower ground floor area of the gallery.
Later, she turns to photography (the gallery has shown her polaroids many times), and painting.

Three of her artist’s books are presented on this occasion. They are unique works gathering masterfully laid-out pages in a bound and decorated treasure trove. Her Dadaist vision of connecting different elements together merges and intersects her poetic writing with the freshness of ink and watercolour images which provide the book with its framework.

In the exhibition, besides the films and the book-works, a group of watercolours is presented in which give off a distant trace of art informel, offset by a rare lightness and grace, topped by an atmospheric vibrancy and je ne sais quoi. The brightly coloured Indian ink and the softness of the watercolours blend with each other in the texture of these papers, while the images remain before our eyes like sudden, instantaneous flashes.