Artistic statement
"Scattered thoughts"
In a society as ours where every day news
and events mine the thought and they destroy the vital strengths of
the spirit it is difficult to be indifferent.
The artist is the one who looks forward and perceives more than other the folly
of our time: at times the disgust for what surrounds us it is so strong that
annihilates us, yet we are able and we want to react, to defend us to still
hope in the life and in the strength that comes the nature and from the art,
to intend as place of dream and liberty.
'Meet me at sunset' it is also a metaphor of the death but it is also a hymn
to the life because the two things are tightly tied and, as I have tried to
explain in my poetry ‘Unpredictable details of blue’ there is always
something beautiful and of good person that arrives unexpected, all it takes
is knowing how to see him/it and to gather it.
I greatly appreciate the irony and the spirit of the English people and he
is dedicated my work entitled 'Flies': everyone can interpret it according
to its own irony and wisdom.
I apologize if the translation is not correct.
Thanks.
"Unforeseeable details of blue
this garden gives me
I have seeded shrubs
and certainties
there, he is here
an exaggerated hyacinth
came from who knows where
between violets wild
and narcissus
in beatiful row"
"Pensieri sparsi"
"In una società come la nostra
dove ogni giorno notizie e avvenimenti minano il pensiero e distruggono
le forze vitali dello spirito è difficile
rimanere indifferenti.
L'artista è colui che guarda avanti e percepisce più di
altri la follia del nostro tempo : a volte il disgusto per ciò che
ci circonda è talmente forte che ci annichilisce, eppure possiamo
e vogliamo reagire, difenderci, sperare ancora nella vita e nella forza
che ci viene dalla natura e dall'arte, intesa come luogo di sogno e libertà.
' Incontrami al tramonto' è anche una metafora della morte ma è anche
un inno alla vita perchè le due cose sono strettamente legate
e , come ho cercato di spiegare nella mia poesia 'Imprevedibili dettagli
d'azzurro', c'è sempre qualcosa di bello e di buono che arriva
inaspettato, basta saperlo vedere e cogliere.
Apprezzo molto l'ironia e lo spirito del popolo inglese e a lui è dedicato
questo mio lavoro dal titolo 'Mosche' : ognuno può interpretarlo
secondo la propria ironia e saggezza.
Mi scuso se la traduzione non è corretta.
Grazie
Ada Villa
"My paintings are for me as children;
I have all generated myself and love them, everyone, without distinction.
But just as it is right that
children at some time take their road, I think it is necessary that
my works do their path, find other homes, other people who love them.
We must detach and let them go free.
For me participating in the Liverpool Biennial as well as being a
pleasure, it is an honour.
I love this city and its traditions and its people. I hope to stay
long in this place.
As training and cultural experience of life I’ve
always sought the meeting and dialogue, multiethnic then hope will
create a true
collaboration and help from both sides.
Regarding the issue “Meet me at Sunset” my
position is metaphysics, where at sunset join the idea of time passing
and then
old age and death.
In many of my paintings is found the anguish “Pasoliniana” of
the absence of knowledge linked to the future, to the uncertainty of
day, while the sacred place of memory is none other than what we want
it to be.
My exhibition in Florence last year was called “Cutting memory” because
it was based on the sunset life and the memories tied to childhood.
Even my new series, flies, is none other than the awareness of an inevitable
end, to which we can not shirk (sometimes irony helps).
Then the sunset not only died pink but also in tone of pearly grey
or darker blue night in a symbolism where rather than the actual canvas
landscapes are saturated by emotional situations.
Currently my paintings are exclusively
oil on canvas, although in the past I experienced pigments and wax."
Ada.Villa
"Ada Villa has made Abruzzo
her adopted country. For many years, she travelled around the world
(Europe, South
America and Canada),
but it was only in the Abruzzo countryside that she found the serenity
that permitted her to devote herself entirely to painting.
After her graduation in the Institute of San Giuseppe in Macerate she
attended the Faculty of Philosophy. She published novels and wrote
poetries and stories, but it was only in 1995, in Provence, in the
South of France that she started painting on the wake of emotion derived
from the brightness of the landscape beloved of Van Gogh.”
Due to her husband’s job, she has travelled to Caracas where
she met the artist Hidelmary Viscaya, of whom she became a pupil. Because
of this cultural experience and the stimulus of her teacher, who says: “Ada
has a real and authentic natural talent”, is sure that her painting
acquires an ever more determining weigh in her life.
Later, she has spent a long time in Paris and Holland, where she has
visited some of the most famous museums in the world, which stimulated
her need to express herself and to improve her painting technique through
studies and comparison with other contemporary artists.
Ada has exhibited widely through many
group and solo exhibitions in countries such as: Italy (Pescara,
Florence,
Chieti,
Ferrara,
Francavilla
al Mare, Lazio
and Molise, Frisa, Perugia (“The 8th Award Biennial of Contemporary
Art Torre Strozzi”), etc); Holland, France (Paris) and has also,
participated as a poet to a variety of art and poetry related events.
She is a member of the artist group “Forms Opens Art” from
Pescara,
“I have not 40 years of painting, but I can affirm with pride
that my painting hang both in magnificent French houses, in the barrios
in Venezuela or in the country side of Italy”.
(Ada Villa)
Literature:
Since 1988 when she has published her novel “Una Luna”,
Ada Villa has participated to many exhibitions and highly official
poetry events in Pescara (Italy) and Paris (2007).
For her 2007 literature, “Writing Women” with the story “My
job’s Mom”, she has been awarded by critics the Silver
plate during the National Competition.
In 2008 she has been awarded the National Prize for Poetry “The
door of Paradise” with the book “With Naturalness”.
The ‘Traces’, publishing company, has chosen some of her
paintings for the covers of several published books.
At the moment, Ada Villa lives and
works in Liverpool.
www.adavilla.com
adavip@yahoo.it
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