June 2024, during the solo exhibition The Gods at Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy
Letting herself be freely inspired by The Map of Hell, the key to the one hundred Drawings for the Divine Comedy commissioned from Sandro Botticelli between 1480 and 1495 by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, Luisa Rabbia tackles the ancestral theme of ‘evil’, transforming Dante’s circles into ribcages within which the most critical topics of our contingent history resonate, such associal injustice, war, abortion, anxiety or the impossibility to intervene. The distance from a pyramidal and religious vision of the world already emerges in the abstract approach of Luisa Rabbia’s hand, where the pure color of the wax crayon, be it spread out or scraped, speaks to us with an empathic-emotional rather than a mental-descriptive lexicon. (Excerpt from a documentary directed by Marco Marcassoli, produced by Yanzi SRL in occasion of Luisa Rabbia’s solo show at The Drawing Hall, Bergamo, Italy, October 2022.)
Brooklyn, NY, 2021, in studio. Directed by David Dixon.
October 2017, during the solo exhibition Love at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
October 2016, meeting the interns from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during my solo show Love at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
