Rafaella’s artistic and curatorial voyage expores both concept and idea; of the textual language in art both written and metaphorically. She is interested in the trouble and the missundersdanding of the words, dialectos, letters and language(s) itself. More specifically, she is investigating the idea in which words tend to lose its references and by doing so are capable of finding new meanings and becomes totally something else. She defines her self as ‘the painter of writing as the writer of painting’ literary. Rafaella, paints the feeling of writing and the emotion of a letter by hand she is focusing in the process of writing as much in the genesis, of a new. What new?
Throughout the years Rafaella, has developed an imitable alphabet that comes out of her self really physically, an alphabet of new signs and objects, an unreadable for the majority that she is constantly creating and investigating thoroughly. She explains;
‘I am blessed with the letters of an alphabet and I am the Mother of Alfarale’. I paint and I create with it, this is my greatest obsession’.
Within her latest solo exhibition in 2021 Rafaella baptises her work and her alphabet as Alfarale, alfa, (alphabet) and rale (the abnormal sound of the chest…). This is the most suitable anagrammatism of the artist name, Rafaella, in which can exemplify better her poetic works 2D and 3D. She is stating; ‘Through the abstract merging of the letters, I re-create the objects I see, sometimes will be considered as creatures, figurative, portraiture, another abstract, but truly realistic through the authentic gesture I hold into my hand and I feel for the language, I call this realism’. In the procedure of the genesis, colours will be existed and blended together, and this is where the writings become paintings. This is where language looses its references to become something else and the artist gesture speaks louder, the depth of the letters accompanied with the colours will take the viewer into…
Rafaella’s works have the potential to work and speak differently upside down, horizontal, vertical viewers have to read her artworks with the eyes of “a new”, dis-joint – dis-locate…
