Il Ponte gets its exhibition season going after the summer break with a solo show dedicated to an artist whom the gallery has worked with for a long time – Rosa Foschi, film-maker, photographer and painter.

After studying the classics and arts, she went to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and made various animated short films (deposited at the Bologna film archives),
produced by E. Gagliardo’s “Corona cinemato-graphic”. Three of these, made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, are presented in the gallery: Amour du cinéma (1969), Ma femme (1970) and Amore e Psiche (1971), projected in the lower ground floor area of the gallery.
Later, she turned to photography, to which the gallery dedicated an all-Polaroid exhibition in 2019, and painting.

Three of her artist’s books are presented on this occasion. They are unique works gathering masterfully laid-out pages in a bound and decorated treasure trove. Her Dadaist vision of connecting different elements together merges and intersects her poetic writing with the freshness of ink and watercolour images which provide the book with its framework.

These works on paper, the focal point of the exhibition, give off a distant trace of art informel, offset by a rare lightness and grace, topped by an atmospheric vibrancy and je ne sais quoi. The brightly coloured Indian ink and the softness of the watercolours blend with each other in the texture of these papers, while the images remain before our eyes like sudden, instantaneous flashes.