Erotica-mente: Rabarama

The SimonBart Gallery in collaboration with Philart, a cultural and social promotion society, presents Erotica-mente, an exhibition project by the Italian artist Paola Epifani, aka Rabarama. The exhibition will be inaugurated on November 23 at 6:00 p.m. at the main gallery in Bologna, in Piazza Cavour 6.

 

The exhibition consists of a central nucleus of twenty works entitled Erotica-mente, never presented before in Italy. Among others, the exhibition presents thirty very recent works, which integrate the theme of dualism between spiritual and material, some of which never show to the public.

 

The theme moves from a search based on the discovery of eros according to ancient and new declinations. Eros as power, energy capable of transferring, communicating but also managing and subjecting minds.

 

In a world where prevarication and manipulation seem to be the direct consequences of a lack of development of empathy and self-knowledge, where it is easy to confuse passion and possession, pushing man to violent behaviors of a psychological and physical nature, art tries to reconnect the senses and the body in a poetic dimension in which eroticism is investigated as an aspect of fundamental relationship of human nature.

 

Rabarama redraws the boundaries of the body and mind, presents complex sculptures in which the bodies thicken forming new identities, figures on whose skin sensations, thoughts, dreams but also needs and shortcomings surface. The works on display present individuals who seek balance through a closeness of a physical nature, but also of an elective, erotic nature, therefore, as a method of searching for the truth.

 

Con-giunto, Eleutheria, Dominus, Necronomicon are just some of the works of introspection and human relationship that the artist realizes in his path of philosophical and anthropological analysis, a journey within the deepest sensations inspired by an erotic and passionate vision of life that seems to culminate in works of physical and spiritual power such as Ikigai, representation of a self aware of one's voluptuousness, in the attitude of acceptance and protection of one's body and soul.

 

During the opening evening, a particular light path will be set up that will inspire the audience in a kaleidoscope of colors and motifs very dear to the artist.

 

The study of the body, the analysis of the philosophical concepts on which Rabarama's research work is based will be translated and interpreted by Serena Della Torre, artist, body painter, who will perform in a live performance, with the collaboration of models Serena Sgreccia and Reira Nanami.