Annalisa Ramondino

Annalisa Ramondino was born in Palma de Majorca. She lives and works in Rome.The objets-trouvès, and the ready-mades, things that usually are thrown away, are rawmaterial for the artist's work. Her sculptures, made of old wood, iron, old zinced sheetmetal, are transfigured objets-trouvés, pieces of material placed in another context,bricolage-narrations, where materials are stratified in a coherent array of heterogeneousstories. The main themes of Annalisa Ramondino's sculpture are: "War Game", "Utopian Cities","Factories". The "War Game" is composed of several war devices. The encampment tents, named "CommandTents", made of sheet metal, remind us of the famous tent on the fresco "Constantine'sDream" by Piero della Francesca: in them the antique solemnity of it doesn't vanish. Thenthere are the "Belligerent", big funnels with wheels and flags, the "Darkroom's Towers"that present themselves as observation machines, the "Revolving Chimneys", obtained fromoverturned drainpipes, the "Imaginary Towers" made of wire from which other wires springout bearing flashing airplanes, pieces of glass, flags. Other works are the "Utopian Cities", microurbane constructions, in which the artistshows a great interest for the language of materials. The "Residual Cities" are composedof towers made of old painted wood, whose tops are either squared or cuspated, theirsurfaces are marked by time. The tower is a prototype that by repeating itself in variousdimensions and heights, in the assemblage as houses or towers, compose archaic, towered,medieval cities, downtowns, acropolis. A sense of immutability and at the same time oftenacious survival comes from these constructions, like a presence and like a memory.Some other buildings are made of iron net like the transparent skyscraper entitled "GreatBuilding Of Air Gages". The "Factories" are little constructions made of white or gray sheet metal with bigchimneys. They are Recreated, in the way one can recreate an architecture of the memory,showing a simpler form and some sharp details. Factories which make you think about thework, hard work, even if useful, but also about the buildings themselves, motionless, onSundays, seen from faraway. Dai suoi numerosi viaggi ha tratto ispirazione e materiali per la ricerca artistica cheporta avanti da tempo. Her many travels are a source of inspiration and materials for her artistic research.She has exhibited in: Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Cologne, Paris, In 1994 she obtained a special Mention of the Miart jury in Milan. She participated in: Artissima/Lingotto, Turin; Arte Fiera, Bologna, Palazzo delleEsposizioni, Rome; ParisForemost Exhibitions in:Museums: 2010 - August 14th - Video “Di aria e di guerra” – in ZE-IT.GE Schloss Museum Sinzig 2010 - “Arte e Gioco in Mostra” Via Larga Gallery - Florence 2010 – “Arte e Gioco in Mostra” Museum Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta – Gaeta 2008 – “Arte e gioco in mostra”– Museum Complesso Monumentale San Michele - Rome 2006 - "Arte e gioco in mostra " - Museo Civico di Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino) -Naples 2004 - Rassegna d'arte contemporanea sul tema "Giochi e giocattoli" presso il "Museo delgiocatolo tradizionale", Albano di Lucania 1995 - "La parola e lo sguardo"Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 1994 - Femail Art 94 (segnalata da M. Bentivoglio) Museo dell'informazione SenigalliaGalleries: 2006 - 2007 "Costruzioni " - Galleria Giulia - Rome 2005 - "Fabbriche" - Galleria Liberalarte - Rome 2003 - "Alice nella città" Galleria l'Ariete - Bologna 2003 - Fiera d'Arte contemporanea, Strasburg 2002 - "Art Vienna" Austria 2001 - Galleria Giulia, Roma 2001 - MIART, Milano 1999 - "Città utopiche" Galleria Giulia - Rome 1997 - "Favole di pace e di guerra" - Galleria Antonia Jannone - Milan 1996 - "Costruzioni" - Associazione Culturale Archarchivio Fototografico Parisio - Naples 1998 - Arte Fiera, Bologna 1997 - Arte Fiera, Bologna 1996 - Arte Fiera, Bologna 1996 - "Boites Magiques" (segnalata da Anne-Marie Sauzeau) Alliance Francaise, Bari 1995 - Arte Fiera, Bologna 1994 - Art Cologne, Koln (Germany) 1994 - Arte Fiera, Bologna 1994 - Artissima, Lingotto, Turin 1994 - MIART, Milano Menzione speciale della Giuria 1994 - "La Decouverte" Paris 1994 - Galleria Philippe Daverio, Milan 1994 - "Artissima" Lingotto, Turin 1994 - "Oidonk '94" Belgio (segnalata da Piet Bekaert) 1993 - "Attualissima" Florence 1993 - "Lineart 93" Gand (Belgium) Awards 2007 - 1° Price Medal of the President of the Italian Republic - for "Interni residuali"- XIX Porticato Gaetano 1994 - Menzione speciale della Giuria, Miart, Milano 1994

My Artist Statement

My sculptures are made of assembled materials ad objects that already have an history of their own: they can be some piece of wood - taken from broken boats abandoned on beaches, or thrown doors or beams from demolished houses - that shows many pelled off layers of old multicolored painting; it can be a sheet of metal whit rusty spots, with scratches and any sort marks; they can be old objects, fragments of things I found in my travels. I choose them for their beauty. I'm sorry if something beautiful is thrown away: I want to save, rebuild, I want to create a new story.