www.rossinabossio.com has an entire new look! My website has been completely redesigned and updated. And now it also comes in Spanish. Come have a visit!
Rossina Bossio
Rossina Bossio is a visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia who works with painting, drawing, photography and more recently, video. Her art -whether she is the model in her images or not- is a continuous self-portrait changing at the pace of her life experiences. Growing up surrounded by women in a very religious and conservative environment, the multidisciplinary artist questions standards and boundaries within the themes of women, religion and seduction.
Bossio began studying Visual Arts in her hometown and finished at L'École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France, where she is currently based. However, her career as an artist started long before she obtained a diploma, having already participated in several group and solo exhibitions in Colombia and France and having her artworks sold internationally to private collectors.
Stream
01/11/2011
Stream
25/08/2011
In 2 weeks I’ll be returning to my country after living in France for 3 years and a half. Here's the last painting I made in France: a 5 times larger version of CRUSH (acrylic on canvas, 130 x 108 cm). Little red devils, dead nuns, pink love, self-fulfillment -and self-pleasurement. All of those things and more cohabit in CRUSH!
Stream
21/04/2011
In my last post I told you that my 2nd video for The Holy Beauty Project was ready. After premiering at Dazed Live Festival in London, the video has been finally launched online! and you can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/22207166
Stream
06/04/2011
My 2nd video for The Holy Beauty Project is ready! and it has been picked to be shown at Dazed Live Festival in London, on April 9th, at 5.30 pm. If you wish to enjoy a day and night of inspiration, rebellion and dancing, you can buy tickets at the official site of the Festival: http://dazedlive.com/ Expect further news about this video very soon!
Stream
20/03/2011
I Want You Magazine invited me to create an artistic interpretation of the historic Pernod Absinthe brand for their current issue. Here's one of the self-portraits I did. You can follow this link to view more images: http://www.iwantyoumagazine.com/sponsors/
Stream
13/02/2011
An image to announce the launching of the 2nd Volume of The Holy Beauty Project, in the following weeks.
Stream
22/12/2010
The Shoe
Acrylic on canvas. 64 x 47. 2010
I love it when good things come out of accidents. This is "The shoe", a small painting I finished a couple of days ago, after a rage impulse. I wasn't liking the face of the girl at all (the one I had outlined underneath that bit of paint scribble) and I felt it was ruining the entire image so I was about to cover the whole thing up and start over. With a brush I swept all the remaining acrylic on my palette and discharged it on the canvas (there was still quite a bit of fresh, unused acrylic painting which I didn't want to throw away). Since the face was the part that bothered me the most, I first aimed at it and crossed it out with angry brushstrokes.
Then I stopped and it hit me that the crossed out face actually worked pretty well. At first I doubted because faces are extremely important for me. They're usually the most detailed part of my paintings. The gesture in a face can be everything, it can evoke the right or the wrong message/feeling.
Finally I decided to give it a go and leave it like that. Who knows, perhaps it's the start of something new!
Stream
25/11/2010
The video for The Holy Beauty Project Vol.1
It's finally here! My first video for The Holy Beauty Project. Costumes by Swedish designer Jonna Bergelin; Music by Colombian musician Nicolás Díaz Durana and Mexican audio engineer Leonardo de Neymet; Concept, direction, performance and paintings by me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAVbjOlX0b8&feature=player_embedded
Stream
01/11/2010
MUSIC
Next Thursday will be my third appointment with Mexican audio engineer Leonardo De Neymet and Colombian musician Nicolás Díaz Durana. For the last couple of months, they've been working on the original soundtrack for the Volume 1 video of The Holy Beauty Project. Now I'm joining them to discuss the final touches, which might take another month or so. Quite honestly, my input in the meetings is sometimes limited due to my lack of knowledge in the field, but I still manage to express the type of sounds I would like to hear and where. Funnily enough, I always end up referring to them in 'visual' terms. After all, visual arts are my world. Yet music is, in my opinion, the deepest and most complex of all arts. I am in awe when I watch Leonardo and Nicolás work. People who are able to create beautiful harmonies of sound make me kind of jealous. I feel happy that I can borrow something of this world and incorporate it in my work. Can't wait to show you the results.
Stream
23/09/2010
NEW PAINTINGS TO COME
I'm currently working on the series of paintings for the second volume of the Holy Beauty Project. Hence, the last couple of weeks I've been a complete hermit. The brush is my master. Like in the first volume, there will be lots of religious and fashion icons, but also lots of new colors and other bits I can't reveal much about just now. You'll have to wait and see the final images. However, I'm sharing a few close-ups of the paintings I'm working on.
I'm getting a lot of inspiration from cultural elements of Colombia-which makes me realize, once more, just how much I'm missing my country!-. I always wanted to use its gold mine of music, colors, handicrafts and customs, but not in a clichéd way. It seems the right moment has finally arrived. Then again, you'll have to wait and see...
