ROSAE, ROSARUM, ROSIS by ANNA PENNATI
The rosary philosophorum by Anna Pennati
It is hard to imagine enclosing over two years of work that Anna Pennati has devoted to the rose in a few lines or within the walls of an exhibition space.
I think, however, that the result is as exciting as the subject matter, which is obviously not to be understood in a purely physical sense, but for all that the rose can be matched by analogy and experience.
an incredible exhibition for the depth of the subjects, as meditative as for great wines and great thoughts; to be sipped slowly, lest one become intoxicated with such profound beauty.
the rose
Works to be pondered also because of the choice of dimensions, which take us back to the ancient icons, holding prayers, canticles and rosaries.
The rose in art is present in numerous authors, but perhaps never has any artist devoted as much time, passion and works to it as anna pennati; and we are happy in Almach Art Gallery to be able, as the first, to propose this event, with the certainty that it is a “new stone” for a “rosary philosophorum” that is fundamental in our common path.
Anna Pennati Mater mixed media on board 40x30cm
Anna Pennati Mater n.2 mixed media on board 40x30cm
“I sank my face between the 100 petals of a rose ... and with my eyes closed ... I saw.”
The rose is not a flower but a vertigo; it is a time spiral in which to get lost.
I tried to go beyond classical iconographies by wanting to perceive the origin of the origin, going beyond the known symbolic aspect and realizing my “visions” on the subject.
The rose is not a flower but a vertigo; it is a time spiral in which to get lost.
A couple of years ago, tidying up my work table, I realized that most of the drawings accumulated over the past month had a recurring theme: that of the mother. “I would like to work on this topic,” I thought.
The need to have a symbolic reference led me, by analogy, to the concept of “rose,” which I became further passionate about, expanding it to such an extent that I devoted more than 2 years of work to it.
The new theme promised broader and less binding connections, though it did not betray the original idea.
I started working right away; the ideas were in urgent need of implementation.
Anna Pennati Suprema Dea tecnica mista su tavola 61x36cm
A single subject, namely the ROSE, declined in its various aspects or symbolic counterparts.
An exhibition of works based on the origin of the rose in a mystical, magical, spiritual, ancestral and symbolic sense.
I tried to go beyond classical iconographies by wanting to perceive the origin of the origin, going beyond the known symbolic aspect and realizing my “visions” on the subject.
Thus were born the works you can see.
Anna Pennati
Hortus Conclusus
I tried to push beyond classical iconographies by wanting to perceive the origin of the origin. Going beyond the known symbolic aspect and realizing my “visions” on the subject.
Thus were born the works you can see.
“TAT TVAM ASI”
...I AM THE WHOLE
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE,
BY ANY OTHER NAME
WOULD SMELL AS SWEET.
(WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - ROMEO AND JULIET - ACT II SCENE II)
