Inspire and Empower: Alessandra Roccasalva
“My imaginative universe is a mixture of suggestions, references, and paradigms of memory in which I feed on the past to claim a new order dominated by feminine sensitivity and delicate timeless beauty,” says Alessandra.
Alessandra Roccasalva, an Italian graphic designer and illustrator, lives and works in Marina di Ragusa, Sicily. Alessandra graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, specializing in painting and cultural heritage. She started making collages for fun, mostly drawing inspiration from works of art, and with millions of dots of “Bézier,” she cut out, isolate, and piece together other beautiful nature. She believes that images, due to their ambiguity and immense range of meanings, are a much more accurate means of breaking down and transmitting our perception of sensible reality.
Women, fishes, flowers, constellations, chemical formulas, vectorial math, mind syntagms, and subconscious ontologies. Alessandra’s inner universe is a blend of appealing, references, and memory paradigma where the author absorbs the past to set the path for a new order ruled by feminine sensibility and gentle, timeless beauty.
In a figurative short-circuit between past and present, her surreal collages are a well-educated retread of the history of art upon a technological note. The artist makes some of the most famous contemporary icons to narrate, in some sort of sarcastic puzzle game, her passions, her driving concepts… in short, her life. She does it with that typical, close-to-obsessive, care of details that is the well-known, modus operandi of a graphic designer.
A reworking that turns these illustrations into mirrors of the soul, into metaPHYsical visions able to convey a sensation of a seductive mystery where everything is symbolic and engages further meanings. Behind the references is hidden the explicit will to share, with the audience, the rediscovery of ancient art; with the recursive use of the number three, mainly connected with the fish image, her own identity; with the recalls to the water theme, the choice of a life in close contact with the sea; with the female portraits the belief that the role of the woman should be more and more leading in contemporary society.