Italia Ruotolo: " The artist is a kind of temporary container between heaven and earth"
"Awakening from a nightmare" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"O" - Tribute to Michael Comte
BPP: Identity: Who
are you? And who you really are?
Italia Ruotolo: Nice to meet You !
I'm Italia Ruotolo, Italian painter
artist and creative mind in general. Well, I hope to match between what I am
(do) and what I“really” am, namely the purpose of art is precisely to
expres themselves without mediation or falsehood. Art is the core of my
existence, everything turns around it, further more it gives me the opportunity
to challenge myself every day, to make sense of the elapsing
time: when you see a painting grow under your hands from day to day is like watching a child grow,
a feeling that could fill your
life.
"Olvidame ya !" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"The promise you made" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
I am a soul in constant movement toward a point of light that
budges and hides continuously, so I'm a
nomad deep inside. I live a objective life
neat and regular ,due to the fact of painting many hours a day every day
, inwardly however, everything is in constant motion as I’m devoured by
the thirst to know and show the magic behind the things. At the end what
leads me to paint is just to figure out which is the true energy that keeps us
alive.
"Yin Yang Yen" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: If you could say
something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?
Italia Ruotolo: Everything we do,
let's do it with love, all the time spent without loving it is wasted time!
"The Danish recipe" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"In the garden of Eden" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: What is your true dream, the one that keeps
you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and
calmness in your heart?
Italia Ruotolo: My true dream would
be to have an infinite amount of time with no restrictions in order to pursue
my artistic life and my affective life. Often the artist is seen by others as a
person self centred on his inner world, absorbed mostly by the artistic search
than by affection . This is because the artist is a kind of temporary container
between heaven and earth, a flow tube between inspiration and implementation,
when you have an idea in your mind it is impossible to resist, all becomes frantic until you materialize
it... so everything in your life is postponing to an unspecified "after
". In the meanwhile you are mentally absent even when you are physically
present ... my dream would be to devote myself more to the others .
"Raise crows and they'll peck your eyes out" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"A blue trip-tych" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: How is life
currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and
for the planet at large?
Italia Ruotolo: In last years, life in Italy has progressively got sadder,
people are tired and disappointed by the politician's squabbles. The emperor is
naked now, political power has proven to want to think only of itself and
has left the country to its fate. It is
not so much the lack of money that languish the Italians but the loss of hope
in better prospects. Young people accuse
politicians of having stolen their
future. I wish that the humankind of the future, perhaps a very far
future, does not have to need politic.
Perhaps we humans are at developmental
stage of childhood, so we still need to
be guided by someone, but when we will grow as adults anyone will be
responsible for himself in relation to the others. I think the exercise of free will is the only dignified
way to go on, so that an human being can be really achieved!
"The Hive" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"El leopardo bajo la cascada de marfil" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"The perfect doll fake chinese" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: If you had a
chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?
Italia Ruotolo: Absolutely not, I would not choose the same life but
would choose the same goals namely make art ! I would not let my path setted by anyone, but I would follow my instincts , because
(now I know) it has never failed. Nobody can know you well
enough to determine what is the best
for you.
"Diosa del mar" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"Spring Fever" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: What was the exact moment that you realized
what you wanted to do with your life?
How did you feel at this very moment?
Italia Ruotolo:There wasn't an “ exact” moment in which I chose one route
rather than another. I was born with the instinct to make art and actually I
have never considered the question of having to live by another way .I come
from a family of artists, it was natural for me to hold the pencil as soon as
physically possible and once I realized that pencil gave me the ability to
create worlds I never abandoned it ...
it's a kind of mystical pagan rapture !
"Grito" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
"No need to speak" - Image courtesy: Italia Ruotolo
BPP: Would you like
to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?
Italia Ruotolo: All of us living on
earth at this definite moment we are connected
each one to each other by a net of thoughts , feelings and vibrations
that, even if we don't know us in person, unites all as the different notes
making up the symphony ... to think
about this makes me love immensely life
and world !
Customized iPhone case created by Italia Ruotolo
Italia Ruotolo's sketch for BPP
Italia Ruotolo was born in Naples, Italy.
She classicly studied ancient Greek and Latin and later graduated at the Fine Arts Academy of Naples.
For many years she worked as a goldsmith and designer. Ruotolo's work is a broad range of pop art and art nouveau.
Her source of inspiration is the world that surrounds her.
In her work, there isn’t much distinction between high and low cultural level,
because she’s aware that the man lives in a myriad of sensory stimulation and is itself the
product of continuing contradiction between what is real and what is mere appearance or mere fiction.
We find echoes of these contradictions in her work in constant search of a balance between past and future.
Italia Ruotolo while working
21st Century Pin-Ups Exhibition :: Volume 4 :: September 2011, UK :: Finearte gallery
-Rock'n dolls- Mondo POP International Gallery
10th september-15th october 2011
MondoPOP International gallery
Via dei Greci 30 Roma
- Pornsaints Exhibition-at the Erotic Museum Amsterdam
Friday June 10th, 19:00 – 23:00
at the Erotic Museum Amsterdam
On view until Wednesday Aug 31
Erotisch Museum
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 54
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Interiora Artshow
2th-3th-4th june 2011
Brancaleone
via Levanna 13 (Montesacro), Roma
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