Sonia Ros. Inner Life

The Landside Departure Lounge of Venice’s Marco Polo Airport will be host -from May 27 to November 2018 - to a personal art exhibition entitled “Inner Life”, to one of Venice’s most renown ar tists: Sonia Ros.
After her recent grand installation “Nuvola di Stelle” in Palermo’s Cappella dell’Inco- ronata Sonia here continues and further emphasizes her ability to articulate the jux- tapositioning of public arenas with artistic expressions of considerable visual impact. These are very large canvases (diptychs) never before presented to the public some of which obtained from x-ray images of luggage tellingly chosen and assembled.

With this project – writes the curator Silvio Fuso – the artist intends to reconcile recogni- zable forms with unrecognizable lives: Indeed Ros’s works are neither realistic in form nor in the abstract, or are they three dimensionally textured but are born of an interpretation and representation of imaginary organisms (minerals, organs, machines, nascent beings) thatare ever in conflict as “subject or object” between that which perception offers and thatis perceived on one part and the illusory dichotomy “abstraction and reality” on the other. Even recognizable objects here taken by surprise and assembled by an inquisitive x-ray are dimensions away from the normal and give an insight to our subconscious secret life.
Inner Life leaves behind it the banal comparison between the real and the imagined in the certainty that fundamental journeying is an intimate experience, an ensemble of all that we hold precious and indispensable, in that perfect amalgam to which only art can give testimony. Inner Life continues the artist’s creative discovery on the meaning of man’s existen- ce and his existential vicissitudes. Begun in 2017 with Anime Al Fronte with theme “the obligations of art” the present production deals with our existential journey and with the fallout should the journey be short circuited or subject to excessivefriction or possible conflict.
For this reason Sonia Ros has felt the need to introduce “iper real” elements into her imagery: the voyeuristic x-rays - elements of prosaic necessity with visionary implication.

Technical details
The installation is comprised of three compositions.The groups are to occupy the sec- ond, the third and the four th wall of the “Landside”.
The first two works are paintings, then two works obtained from the x-raying of pass- ing luggage and the last obtained through the use of a melange of print and painting techniques.  

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