Shahla Rosa

About me:

A Sincere Openion from DR. BRUNO FRANCISCI, Director of Cultural Affairs of the city of ABANO TERME.ITALY, also in charge of the MUSEO CIVICO DI ABANO TERME

La mia opinione SINCERA è assolutamente POSITIVA.

Non ho visto l'originale ma dalle due fotografie mi sembra che si tratti di un'artista di prim'ordine, un vero talento, un visionario potente, dalla straordinaria fantasia inventiva, di spessore culturale eccezionale, di grande capacità compositiva. Mi incuriosisce molto: Mi puoi mandare riproduzioni di migliore risoluzione e anche altre immagini di questo artista? Mi piacerebbe moltissimo che ci fosse alla mostra del Montirone. Complimenti per la scoperta!







I am what you see in my virtual images. Everything I love, think, feel, drag me towards a particular intense philasophy in my art work. I continue to be bound by the imperious need, upon which I insist, to search ceaselessly for what is new. My mind is in permanent communication with the earth's magnetism, the strictly non-derivative object being that people in my canvases possess their own distinctive affinities: & these affinities not only interpret everything in the universe capable of becoming an object of emotion, but do so in the one way that is truly felicitous- non literally. Such object beings require to be viewed as the resultants of the most diverse properties of everything that exists. website: www.LaLarosa.com





ART CRITIC, BY SHOKA GOLSABAHI. ART HISTORIAN. VIENNA, AUSTRIA

The Art of the Possible and Impossible

Wittgenstein points out in his Tractatus-logico- philosophicus the following sentence [6.13]: “ Logic is no science, but a reflection of the world in the mirror”. A reflection of whatever in the mirror is always either concave or convex, it is not a reproduction of what is reflected and this is what turns this sentence said by Wittgenstein to a well done description of the surrealistic aim. Obviously Wittgenstein tried to point out the role of logic in philosophy, but still the way he points that out by using the relationship between world and its reflection, is because of its importance in the arts in general, no matter, whether any kind of art wants to dedicate itself in reflecting the world or not. The point is that what human beings are interested in is the structure of the world and by using the term “mirror” and its concave or convex relation to the real, this issue turns into something highly controversial. Contemporary Art whatever it may be, has the aim of questioning everything that has been done until now, and as much as possible to renew and not to build on what is there already, which is one of the reasons why the vast majority of people have the feeling that visual arts is turning itself in a weird circle. But what if there is an artist who does not intent to reinvent the wheel but to connect on what is there already, to use this as a fundament and go further? What if after one art movement there is no need to negate it in order to bring another art movement into being? What would a surrealist artist of today paint, what would be his or her subjects? This question is not one of those which have no answer, if one gets in touch with the works of the female artist called Shahla Rosa. Born 1953 Shahla Rosa impresses with her highly complex paintings which are outstanding. She uses a “language” that is well known since the surrealists, the unreal and the illogic turn into the visible, for what one hardly finds words is translated by her into different forms and figures on canvas. There is no border; neither the surreal objects and subjects of dreams are left outside her works nor the so-called sub consciousness. It seems as if the more illogic the thought and the more paradox, the more interesting is the performance of it on canvas done by Shahla Rosa. Therefore it is no surprise that Shahla Rosa told Giorgio Vaselli in an interview that the biggest influence in her works are by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Fellini, Dali and Breton. The Surrealists themselves have not been homogenous, still Shahla Rosa’s works remind of Dali. Her works show the extraordinary power of her imagination and her intelligence which delights the viewer. She was raised in the USA and has studied in the US and in Europe (Italy, Germany) where she followed different studies, which shows her high awareness of the topics that she uses, for example a series of her works that is dedicated to Breton under the title „ Andre Breton Ideology“ and when she has been asked what inspires her she answered with the name of Freud. She uses Freud as a source of inspiration which for itself is quite extraordinary. This may be the reason why her works are so well done on the basics of the illogic and unreal, female bodies that seem to be half with mysteriously closed eyes, spread wings which seem to hold everything, with a fish wide eyed underneath the female body, next to a male arm which is dressed…..many many details that seem to play an important role in every picture. One has to concentrate and look very carefully to grasp everything and then in the end to wonder how she puts all of these details together as one. It is unbelievable how many details she hides in her works which one has to find, and with how much creativity she puts them all together and makes connections from one to the other. This also is one of the reasons why every time one looks at her works it seems as if we see something else in it and you wonder because there seems no end to her detailed way of painting. One of the impressive points about her is also the way she speaks about her works, that she follows a movement that has been there already without the aim to negate what has been done already. It is not about copying what is there but about building on the fundament of the surrealists, a way of expression that has been introduced by Dali and others. Therefore Shahla Rosa is someone who is able to “speak” through the “surrealist language” and go even further. She is also called “modern surrealist artist” but still staying loyal to the thought of not following any borders or limitations in order to show the irrational. Even this thought is quite contra dictionary, as Heraclites says; everything is an endless but fruitful battle between the contradictory. Shahla Rosa’s works are more than just interesting; she is a “modern surrealist”, which is easily shown if one has a look at her works because she answers through the surrealistic vocabulary TODAY in order to unite the possible and impossible in a highly complex and extraordinary way.


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