Anna Galtarossa returns to Studio la Città on Saturday, June 15th with an all-new exhibition. The artist enters with her tapestries in a solo show that should answer the question What is painting?
Therefore, it is interesting to understand the process that prompted the artist – of inexhaustible creativity and animated by an intense and multifaceted activity of research and careful study of materials, mostly textiles – to produce tapestries as if they were paintings: is thread both color and canvas at the same time? She, who identifies herself in the role of sculptor, offers a lateral point of view for these works, which do not seem to accept too rigid cataloguing and she also leaves the way open for a form of painting.
This is how the artist presents her most recent work:
At a certain age historical revisionism becomes inevitable and mythologizing one’s past is a formative activity. The tapestries are a hagiographic exercise that portrays my sculptures and installations of the past by transferring them to a legendary dimension. I am constructing a retrospective woven from wool. Like the tapestries of the past that told the exploits of heroes and kings, I tell the stories and settings of my monsters, spirits, and the characters that populate my installations. Now as then, the narrative elements do not always correspond to the truth, sometimes places and times are mixed in a continuous meditation on memory and perceptions. New paths, forms and stories are already emerging from this linguistic transfer. I hope that, like weaving, they will help us strengthen our relationship with the land and our ancestors.
