Rosemary Salkin Sbiroli

My creative imaginary is the tempting encounter within new and old, idea and form, rigor and creativity, East and West.

I work within representation and abstraction trying to find equilibrium within contrapositions. I pursue an intimate path following the suggestions of what’s around me, conscious of the subtle veil that divides representation and abstraction; I brake down and reassemble elements keeping the suggestion of the original archetype. This process induces you to perceive figures that are at the same time familiar and elusive.

A creative choice that allows me to deepen the exploration of subtle emotions, not yelled, that overlap layer after layer in my works to create a complex emotional syntax.

I love the raw material and the manual skill: the imperfection in the repetition, the uniqueness of the gesture. In my works. I employ new (resin) and old (encaustic) techniques making use of the infinite opportunities that paper, photography, digital manipulation can offer to reach my formal idea. The final result is an infinite interest for many ways of doing art and an intercultural language built on many levels.

“Overlapping and organized cells with a complex epidermis, disclose to the artist in all oftheir articul...

Rosemary Salkin Sbiroli was born in Rome in 1974 from a Russian-American mother and an Italian father. She lived and worked in Los Angeles, London and Milan. She studied painting with Alberto Parres at La porta Blu, Encaustic with studio Borghi and advanced photographic postproduction at the 10 B photography studio with Claudio Palmisano. She lives and works in Rome Italy.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Rome (Italy), Miscellanea, Ex military base Guido Reni, Via G. Reni 7, exhibit curated by Tiziano M. Todi
2016 Rome (Italy), Surfaces, Galleria Vittoria, via Margutta 103, exhibit curated by Tiziano M. Todi critic essay by Romina Guidelli (catalogue)
2014 Rome (Italy), Contaminations, Galleria Vittoria, via Margutta 103, exhibition and catalogue curated by Claudia Zaccagnini
2012 Monopoli (Ba - Italy), Unnatural Nature – Recent Works, church of S. Maria della Zaffara, with the endorsment of the municipality of Monopoli, catalogue curated by Claudia Zaccagnini
2012 Rome (Italy), Unnatural Nature, MakeMake Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Livorno, ‘Immaginare Leonardo’ at Castello di Sonnino. Group exhibition introduced by prof. Philippe Daverio as part of the events organized for the 500 years death anniversary of Leonardo. Promoted by Editoriale, with the patronage of the muicipality of Livorno and Cecina, the International Association of via Margutta e della Chamber of Commerce of Maremma and Tirreno. This is a traveling exhibition, a significant stop will be in October in Rome at the Galleria Vittoria di via Margutta. (Catalogue)
2019 Soriano del Cimino (VT), ‘Splash! Un tuffo nell’Eros'. Contemporary ar...