Rabarama Interview with Istanbul Art Snob Magazine

In 2014 Rabarama partecipated at the Art Fair Contemporary Istanbul, with Gallery Ilayda, and her artworks had a great success among Istanbul art lovers and collectors.

Following the event, the magazine Istanbul Art Snob interviewed the Artist about her career and the relationship with Oriental cultures.

The interview represent is the most recent one of Rabarama, regarding her recent career and has interesting points about her inspiration and focus on the body: “Our society is moving towards a total annihilation of the body even if many would say that this is not true because the body is so present in mass media and culture. This is the point: it is really present but as a product, not as the “temple of life” that it is.
I think that a way to contrast this is to refer strongly to the harmony and beauty of the human body, to make its inner value explicit: the body is the symbol of life, feelings, relationships, identity. “

The relationship between the Artist and Oriental cultures has always been a constant in her works, from the I-Ching series of sculptures to the symbols and letters of Chinese and Indian tradition on the skin of her sculptures, as Rabarama declares: “I feel that the Far Eastern culture was already present in my culture (maybe thanks to Venice, Marco Polo and many others) and when I repeatedly visited China I really recognized the importance of Asian culture (in general). I was fascinated by it, but not only because of “exoticism” but because of a sort of “familiarity”, as the Oriental spirituality is so universal!”

The interview reveals also some of the future projects of Rabarama:”I’m involved in very stimulating projects for 2015 and I’m happy to announce that the next year there will be the second edition of the Rabarama Skin Art Festival (with Kryolan) where the best body artists from Italy will be invited to create an artwork on the skin of the models.

In January I will be in Amsterdam at Artist-IQ event (www.artist-iq.nl) and in March there will be an important event in Las Vegas, a charity event with the Cirque du Soleil to benefit the NGO One Drop and I will donate one of my sculpture to contribute (and this sculpture is related to another big project involving art, science, culture but I can not speak of it now…top secret… )”

The full interview is published on http://istanbulartsnob.com/interview/interview-with-italian-artist-rabarama/

“The body of the woman for me is the sensuality and elegance while the male body represents power and balance…”

Excerpt from Rabarama interview with Istanbul Art Snob magazine.
Read the full interview here: http://istanbulartsnob.com/interview/interview-with-italian-artist-rabarama/

ARTSNOB: The body has a complicated structure but works very simply beyond our understanding. As an artist dealing with “body” how do you define the body?


RABARAMA: Thank you for asking, the “body” is really a central theme in my art. Last year I have presented an art-manifesto titled “SKIN ART MANIFESTO” (http://www.rabarama.info/#!skin-art-manifesto/c1667) that was subscribed by many artists and also by a famous brand in the professional cosmetics industry (Kryolan).

Our society is moving towards a total annihilation of the body even if many would say that this is not true because the body is so present in mass media and culture. This is the point: it is really present but as a product, not as the “temple of life” that it is.
I think that a way to contrast this is to refer strongly to the harmony and beauty of the human body, to make its inner value explicit: the body is the symbol of life, feelings, relationships, identity.

If it is treated like an object and a product, well, all life will become a product, together with sentiments and spirituality (sadly we see that this is really happening right now).
With this Manifesto I invite all the artists, designers and people to support the “beauty” as a real and living value.

ARTSNOB: I love the way you patternise the skin of your sculptures. At İlayda’s booth there were amazing ones. I interpreted it as the effect of the outer world on the human body and soul. Sometimes good sometimes evil. An existentialist effect that us humans cannot avoid. And that flourishes as energy on our bodies. How do you interpret the skin colors, prints, patterns?


RABARAMA: Our body reveals the signs of time, in the same way my “creations” tell through the use of symbols and colors the path of growth and knowledge that every human being faces along the journey of life. I chose a simple way to communicate and to confront the users creating visual cues in support of far more ‘articulated concepts , which refer to the understanding of the reason for our existence in this dimension of space-time.

Read the full interview here: http://istanbulartsnob.com/interview/interview-with-italian-artist-rabarama/