“Beats per minute” will be inaugurated on Saturday 7 October 2023 from 6.30 pm at the Pallavicini22 Art Gallery exhibition space in Viale Giorgio Pallavicini 22 in Ravenna. Alessandra Rota's solo show, curated by Roberto Pagnani and Claudia Agrioli, with a critical text by Roberto Pagnani in the catalogue, will remain on display until Sunday 22 October and will be open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. Free admission.
The exhibition is included in the calendar of the VIII edition of the Ravenna Contemporary Mosaic Biennial.

The event, promoted and organized by CARP Associazione di Promozione Sociale in collaboration with the PALLAVICINI 22 Art Gallery Exhibition Space and with the Ghigi-Pagnani Collection Archive, benefits from the patronage of the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia Romagna Region, of the Municipality of Ravenna Department Culture and Mosaic, of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna, of the Port System Authority of the central-northern Adriatic Sea and of the support of BCC Ravennate Forlivese and Imolese, Gruppo SAPIR Ravenna, DARSENALE – BIZANTINA BREW PUB Ravenna.

The Exhibition

Alessandra Rota was artistically trained in Milan where she also worked in the world of design. Her work is influenced by both Western and Eastern styles such as Japanese ukiyo-e.

She produces bas-relief wall mosaics. She prefers toulipier wood (Magnoliaceae family) which she works and reduces in tile format, giving life to a construction similar to mobile chessboards made up of several superimposed layers. In this exhibition of hers, she also presents works on wood with chisel incisions, connected by a tile that refers to the mosaic.

She works on the monotonal, colors that bring out the vibrations of the shadows thus animating the work.

Her work also has a strong sound value; her structures resonate with harmonic vibrations, so much so that they look like the construction of a musical score. The different size of the individual tiles refers to the amplitude of the sound or the sensation given by the vibration of a body in oscillation. This vibration, which propagates in the air or in another elastic medium, reaches the senses and creates a suggestion related to the nature of the vibration. The tiles transmit the movement to the other nearby tiles and these in turn to still others, causing a local variation of the pressure; in this way, a simple vibratory movement propagates mechanically, originating a sound wave.