February 2014

Energy of Wire

The wire material that Rosa Spina uses to express her creative energy becomes the protagonist of her artwork. With the gesture of painting and filamentous material, the artist combines two main ideas: casual gesture and informal material. She proposes a new way of interpreting the reality of wire, which is released from the wire’s common utilitarian use, instead using it to looking outside the instrumental meaning. Spina is inspired by the de-collage process of the artist Mimmo Rotella, which leads her to de-weave her canvases in an act of restoring the primacy of the work. She uses this “de-weaving” process to create dense networks of colorful symbols that become joyous explosions of life.

Italian artist Rosa Spina, was born in Sicily but grew up in the Calabria region. She currently lives and works in Catanzaro, Italy where she teaches “pictorial disciplines” at the School of Art. She is considered a pioneer of experimentation in Italy’s contemporary Fiber Art scene, an artistic movement that spread to the United States and northern Europe in the late sixties.