Details of 9 brand new paintings! (Click on the image for better view).

I’ve been keeping these back for a while now because they’re part of a big project I’m working on, that I’ll share with you very, very soon!

Will you be able to handle it? Stay tuned to find out…

;)

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!

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 :]

]]> http://rossinabossio.com/2009/10/commissions/feed/ 5 http://rossinabossio.com/2009/10/holy-beauty/ http://rossinabossio.com/2009/10/holy-beauty/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:26:25 +0000 Rossina http://rossinabossio.com/?p=1052 Finally! I have the time to sit down and write an update. The last couple of weeks have been crazy, traveling, organizing the exhibition as well as creating some new works** I’m really looking forward to share here. But first things first: the exhibition in Rennes! To be honest I was very nervous because this was my first solo exhibition in France. I thought no one would show up, but to my surprise the place was full! At some point it was even hard to move around. It was really exciting to see my works filling up an entire place again and people looking at them, which is twice more satisfying than selling them individually.

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

Pink II. Acrylic on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. 2009

(Click on the image to enlarge)