Roberta Riccio Chirivino

Omnia Vincit Amor

Omnia Vincit Amor

Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori è tratta dalle Bucoliche (Egloga X,69) di Virgilio: letteralmente "l'amore vince tutto, anche noi cediamo all'amore". Divenuto proverbiale per esaltare l'ineluttabile potenza dell'amore e la sua vittoria, questo emistichio viene raffigurato da Ri.Chi. ponendo al centro il suo opposto: la sconfitta, l'istante di massima drammaticità in cui il trapassato dalla freccia scoccata da Cupido, viene colpito. Lirismo e grandiosità sono stilizzati in una sagoma dall'effetto figurativo "ritagliato", una reinterpretazione del collage come fusion di frammenti di celebri opere d'arte legate al turismo di massa: il Ratto di Proserpina , il Danubio, gigante della Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi di Bernini e i disegni-studio sulle torsioni per la Cappella Sistina di Michelangelo. Ri.Chi. rivolge la propria attenzione al linguaggio di internet , all'uso facile e distratto di innumerevoli frammenti di cultura ed informatica: internet ci rende davvero più superficiali , come afferma Nicholas Carr?

Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori is from Bucolics  by Vergilius: "Love conquers all things; let us too surrrender to love". A common proverbial saying to glorify the inescapable power of love and its victory. Ri.Chi. plays with the meanings placing at center stage its opposite: the defeat, the dramatic instant when the lover is struck down by Cupid's arrow. The man is represented with classical and lyrical canons which are but shaped in a stylized silhouette engineered to generate a cutout effect. A reinterpretation of the collage as fragments of  pieces of art well-known to mass tourism: The Rape of Proserpina, The Danube, giant of the Foutain of the Four Rivers by Bernini, Michelangelo's drawings for the Sistine's Chapel. Ri.Chi. turns her attention to the careless use of fragments of culture and information, available at easy hand: does internet really make us superficial, as claimed by Nicholas Carr?

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

 Holding a Degree in Economics for Art, Culture and Communication in Bocconi, specialized in Civilization Française in Sorbonne, Ri.Chi. decides to devote herself to art creation in Paris. She digs up her creative root building a  universe of references that draw eclettic inspiration from phylosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, religion, technology as well as from medieval, renaissance, modern and contemporary metre. Ri.Chi establishes hyperlinks with expressionism, symbolism, surrealism, dadaism and pop art with a contemporary attitude towards her cultural references. A freedom of speech to communicate and unveil the contraddictions, vices and superstractures of society in a playful, unconventional and, at times, provocative way. "We move into a collective unconscious made up of stratified traditions and symbols", writes art historian Federica Morandi, a "continuous codification of past and present symbols and icons, towards a personal path and the elaboration of a new artistic conception".

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