Touching stars with no sides
“They were a thousand summersaults / ceaseless in the emptiness. / You thought, what does life want / to be stopped? / Was it maybe the sun / which does not end, or a game / which not words? / ...They were a thousand confetti / a celebration of twists, / it was walking blindly / and not arriving to the pupil / of your eyes. I touched stars/ without no sides. Body of soap.”
Brigitta Rossetti, a poet and artist, already in these few lines, written some years ago, enclosed that which is her artistic imagination nowadays. The words she uses give name to some of the recurring images in her art: butterflies, the multicoloured confetti, the sky, the stars and flight. A lot returns in her of the imaginative and dreamlike teaching of Mirò and Chagall.
Her palette is always inspired by a creative poetic, fluid and elegant expression of an instant of the artist’s life, echo of a dream or marvellous story told to herself. The Eastern world is the “Enchanted country” in which her fantasies find their best setting or references, the fairytale scenery in which everything can be created and correlated. Colour is the medium used to create magical costumes for the characters and the objects of this universe of hers, in which live and dance elusive and indefinable creatures which only the instinctive and primary perception of our mind manages to capture.
The fact that everything is wrapped by a continuous motion and by a fluid and rare sky in which the tonalities of grey welcome and accentuate the directions of flight, helps us to understand well her technical capacity and the mastery of her colour palette. Her painting therefore results being generation, creation, more than construction, or maybe generation is better because it can be construction and, as such, knows how to cross the insidious territories of form without being captured.
The work is the result of an “instinctively conceived” expressive fact of the artist which transforms and enriches the forms of reality, joining them in a thousand different ways, all expressions of different visions of the world, confirming itself as a universal language which surmounts every cultural and personal boundary. Brigitta Rossetti allows us to “touch stars with no sides”, open over the universe, images of a cosmic energy which harmonizes everything. It does not matter either if stroke becomes colour or if it remains an indefinite and Easternized line. It’s the perception of that which matters, stimulating our mind and communicating feelings and emotions of a memory or a fact which is for her a conscious or unconscious source of something which is universal.
