Jonna designed the clothes, inspired by the the figure of Carolyn Cassady, and afterwards we met to create a series of photographs where I was the model. The final result is a book, titled Comme des Filles, that is currently being exhibited at Stockholm, Sweden Gallery Grafiska Sällskapet. As I promised on my Facebook, today I’m sharing with you more pictures from the series! I said I was going to show you the entire series but we’re now looking to possibly edit several copies of the book, and if I show you all the pics now I’d spoil the possibility of actually selling the book ;) hope you’ll forgive me! In the meantime, have a look at these:

As a final treat, here’s a recent interview I did for Colombian magazine Neon, where you can see footage from the making of photos 3 and 5, as well as me talking about my work (in Spanish):

Entrevista a Rossina Bossio, artista colombiana. Exclusiva para revista NEON segunda edición from REVISTA NEON on Vimeo.

*Note: If you are an editor and are interested in this book, please do not hesitate to contact me.

After the opening, Pascale Heloïse Nivet, artistic director of La Marelle Editions, kindly wrote an article about my work and posted it at La Marelle’s blog. You can read it here (in French). Thanks Pascale! I have some more exciting press to show you but it’ll have to wait until I figure out how to upload it…

I finished this painting last week. The model is Natalie Dybisz aka Miss Aniela, who I met in August 2009 to do a self-portrait collaboration. I started the painting right after I met with her, but stopped working on it for several months until the first week of February 2010. I’m very excited to share this with you, my first piece made (or finished) in 2010, that will be showcased soon in Singulière Plurielles, my second exhibition in Rennes, France!!

View of the flyer. I’ll be exhibiting with French artist Elsa Alayse at Gallery L’Antre Temps.

I’ll show the rest of my new work soon. In the mean time here’s a preview of my most recent series of drawings, which will also be exhibited at L’Antre Temps:

Pencil on paper. 28 x 24 cm. 2010

Stay tuned for more!

With my mother, niece, and sisters

With my friend Clara Isabel Mendoza, who was in charge of organizing everything.

Thanks to everyone who came. Check more photos of this and other events here.

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Gracias a todos los que vinieron, a la inauguración y al conversatorio. Les recuerdo que la exposición va hasta el 29 de Enero de 2010. ¡Los espero! Centro Cultural Skandia (Av. 19 No. 109A – 30). Entrada libre. Click aquí para más información.

I’m very excited about this! Besides, I really can’t wait to see my friends & family, and I’m already drooling with all the delicious things I’m going to eat -no offense my French pals, I’ve had a great time in your country, but French food is definitely overrated! ;)

On another note, I was invited as a guest speaker for the conference “The Status of Women Artists and The Representation of Women in Art in the 21st Century” at University Jean Moulin Lyon III. Last Monday I gave a 2 hour presentation about my work, at Auditorium Andre Malraux. Big thanks to Emeline Chaurand for inviting me to come! Preparing this presentation was a great exercise to straighten out my thoughts on art, feminism, my origins, the Internet, my work, among other things I talked about. I’ll share a report of the event -which was video taped-, later on…in the mean time, you can see some pictures here.

Oh, and, did you watch my filmed interview already? if you haven’t, click here!

View the interview on ArtplaTV’s site (without subtitles): artplaTV.com/galerie

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A photo from this summer (click to enlarge)…models are Agathe and Aziliz. There are more from this shooting to come…

ps: Click here to see pics from the exhibition in Bourges, mentioned in my last post.

I’d also like to showcase another commission from a dear Flickr friend, Pia Liikala, who I also met in person this year. When we met last April, besides the shots of her I took for the painting, we managed to find some time to pose together for this photo.

(Pia I and Pia II. Acrylic on canvas, each one 73 x 60 cm) Click >here< to see other commissioned paintings.

Last but not least, next Friday launches the exhibition “Regards Colombiens sur l’art contemporain” (Contemporary Colombian artists), in which I’m participating with 9 paintings, at Galerie Pictura in Bourges, France :]

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The morning of the opening day, the team from ArtplaTV came to film while we were getting things ready, and later did a short interview. I’ll post the video here as soon as it’s ready, although it might take a while because everything was done in French and I suspect it’d be useful to add subtitles at least in English.

The exhibition presented 16 unedited drawings, along with 8 paintings. You can click here to see more pics of the event and have a look at the works. Bellow I’m posting 12 of the 16 drawings (soon I’ll upload the other 4). They are a sort of continuation of La Peregrina, a rather ambitious project inspired mainly by Colonial Latin American Arts (I’ve already ranted about this matter. If you’re interested please go here). I had several ideas in mind for new images similar to La Peregrina, and at some point I felt urged to start doing something about that. That’s how the idea of making drawings came to me. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge:

These 32 x 24 cm drawings are unique artworks, sold at a very approachable price. If you’re interested, do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes and to those in Rennes who attended and made publicity. HUGE thanks to Nicolás, who helped me with absolutely everything -and more, also to Charlie and Mathilde, Le Cheval Bleu and ArtplaTV.

**My portfolio at my agent’s has been updated. You can have a look and discover some new photos I haven’t posted here yet: www.juliesagency.com/rossina.bossio

* holy beauty :: belleza sagrada :: la beauté sacrée

I’ll be exhibiting in Rennes, starting the 1st October, in the former location of a Polish restaurant, Niebieski Kon (The blue horse). During the entire month, I’ll be showing a series of unedited drawings and paintings (I’ll post a small preview on the blog soon). The owner and chef of the restaurant -who moved to a bigger place just across the street- will delight us with some typical Polish treats on the day of the launching. The title -in Polish- means “Holy Beauty”.

More good news: an article about me has been published in the first issue of international magazine Arte Libertino, which focuses on Latin American arts and culture. I have been invited to participate with my work on the occasion of the magazine’s launching. To read the article (in Spanish) follow this link : Los oscuros ríos del corazón by Felipe Clavijo.

On another note, I’d like to take the opportunity and make public that, after a year and a half of endless postponements and vague answers, I have decided to call off the exhibition in Paris that was due for November 2009 at Door Studios. The lack of seriousness and reliability from the gallery’s team forced me to cancel the -yet hypothetical- event, that was being planned since April 2008. Regretfully, I had accumulated and reserved a considerable amount of work, which led me to turn down some very good exhibition and sales opportunities. I want to make clear that I was always honest and prompt towards the people at Door Studios, and in response I got complete negligence and incapability to deliver on previous agreements, along with several ignored phone calls and messages. In other words, a total lack of professionalism.

Thank you to those in Paris who’ve shown interest in viewing my work live. Although I’m sorry that this time it won’t happen, I’m certain that it will in the near future. I’m eager to show all my new work and willing to seize new opportunities. I’ll continue my research. In the meantime, see you in Rennes!