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!

I made most of the following before getting into the “Holy Beauty” series. I did some interesting discoveries while working on them. For instance, I think I might get into collage very soon…

(Click on the images to enlarge!)

Note: I’ve been asked if I sell or exhibit my Journal drawings. The answer is yes, you can buy drawings from my journals :)

I’ve hesitated a lot before deciding to publish this post. I was thinking the content probably fits my Facebook page better, but then the image quality on there is pure rubbish so I thought: why not?

I spent from December 1st /09  to January 3rd /10 in Colombia, half promoting my work and exhibiting, half visiting my family&friends and just having fun. I took several pictures, although not as many as I had planned before the trip. I first wanted to take zillions of pictures, particularly of the beautiful urban landscapes that many people abroad don’t know about (because sadly, a lot of people think Colombia is just an extremely dangerous jungle filled with drug dealers and guerrillas…which is rather far from the truth), and share them here. However, to be honest in Colombia I hardly felt like taking my camera out. I just wanted to be there and enjoy the experience for real -and not behind the camera-. Now I’m hating, for instance, not to have taken enough pictures of Bogotá, my city, the capital.

I did take some pictures, of those things that caught my eye strongly enough as to make me take over my laziness and get the camera working. Most of these pictures where taken in Los Llanos and Subachoque, two very different places with different landscapes and weather, but in the same country. I really enjoyed my time there. Now I’m back on track, in France, with some interesting projects ahead and a lot of pictures to edit from last year. In the mean time, let me just share a bit of where I come from with you…

I’ll probably add more city photos soon…

Ps: If you want to see photos from my exhibitions in Colombia, you can go here and here.

]]> http://rossinabossio.com/2010/01/back-in-france/feed/ 10 http://rossinabossio.com/2009/12/launch-of-casa-de-munecas-skandia-bogota-colombia/ http://rossinabossio.com/2009/12/launch-of-casa-de-munecas-skandia-bogota-colombia/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:44:07 +0000 Rossina http://rossinabossio.com/?p=1450 Last Thursday was the launch of my solo exhibition at Skandia, Bogotá, Colombia. I was extremely happy to see my family and friends there.

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!

About a month ago I did a fashion photoshoot in a professional studio. It was really an amazing experience…huge thanks to photographer Raphaël Auvray for the opportunity! Also to Les troubadours du Chaos, for the beautiful clothes; to Chloé Collewet and Camille Bodin for being such great models, and to Nicolás Díaz Durana and Aude Mazza for the great help!!

I was hoping to finish these pictures before traveling to Colombia but it was really impossible. I was cought up preparing my presentation for University Jean Moulin Lyon III and I even haven’t had the time to finish my Watermelon series, which I had already announced and hope to finish soon! At the moment I’m packing my bags, and I want to share the images I’ve already finished, before I disappear for several days. Click on the first image to view the slideshow.

Models: Chloé Collewet and Camille Bodin. Clothes: Les troubadours du chaos (link). Studio, lighting and general assistance: Raphaël Auvray. Concept, Makeup, Styling, Photography and Post-Processing: me. Thank you all!!

I plan to write a full report of this photoshoot whenever I get the time. In the meantime, if you’re curious, you can see a complete ‘behind the scenes’ coverage on my Facebook: CLICK. Thanks to Aude and Nicolás for those pics :)

]]> http://rossinabossio.com/2009/11/studio-photoshoot/feed/ 3 http://rossinabossio.com/2009/11/filmed-interview-with-artplatv/ http://rossinabossio.com/2009/11/filmed-interview-with-artplatv/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:03:51 +0000 Rossina http://rossinabossio.com/?p=1347 Even though I hate watching myself talk in French, I thought it would be nice to share my interview for ArtplaTV, on the occasion of my solo exhibit in Rennes “Holy Beauty”. Speaking of which, you can now see the complete series of exhibited drawings: click here!

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

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These last three are more like outtakes:

Model: Belladonna Friis.

I still have to finish editing the watermelon pics I mentioned in the last post, taken the same weekend of Bella’s shooting. Aaaand…last Friday I had an awesome photoshoot in a profesional studio, with a Phase One camera, two beautiful models and amazing clothes from a local store. I have several hours of post-processing ahead!

Here’s the first part of my work with Belladonna:

These 6 photos are certainly not the most glamorous because, although fashion was intended to be the main thing, I was trying to keep everything within my personal artistic universe. Bella was great to work with, very creative and enthusiastic, aside from being a beautiful and great model. These are definitely some of my favorites from the shooting. The last B&W picture showcases two of her paintings in the background.

After the ‘domestic’ scenes we passed on to a more ‘fashionistic’ atmosphere. At the end of the session Bella ended up taking a bath with her clothes on! Stay tuned for the rest!

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.