KAMCHATKA (NERO) | ANNA GALTAROSSA

Anna Galtarossa’s (Verona, 1975) work is conceived as a sort of diary, a self-portrait offered to the viewer, pursuing the creation of connections and relationships between human beings, bypassing both spatial and temporal distances.
The artist has recently discovered tapestry as an intriguing and fitting medium for communication and dialogue, aided by a family inheritance: upon inheriting a historic old villa from her grandfather, Galtarossa gradually began to inhabit it, transforming it piece by piece into a fully-fledged atelier. The tapestry, considered both furniture and artwork, also becomes a way for Galtarossa to communicate with the villa itself, a place very dear to her.

Kamchatka (nero) is a tapestry created in 2023. It depicts some significant elements from a previous installation set up by Galtarossa in 2005, titled Kamchatka, which was later re-proposed in 2016.
The tapestry shows two skyscrapers, between which are two figures – the yellow one and the blue one – which respectively represent a goat being eaten by a lion.
The landscape represents the union between the artist’s imagination and reality itself, shown to our eyes in magnificent and captivating shades of red, purple, blue, and yellow.

Galtarossa’s choice of tapestry stems from its historical use as an artistic object to exalt the depicted scene, whether it was a historical event or a sacred scene destined to be hung in a church.
It almost sounds like self-celebration, when in fact it is more accurate to define it as a reinterpretation of language, an attempt to give new form to what is, in fact, the artist’s personal history.
Galtarossa’s tapestry represents an attempt to leave her own mark impressed over time, a time that flows inexorably and inevitably transforms both people and their language. A natural mutation that affects each of us, sooner or later, in an instant or in a slow but constant progression.

Anna Galtarossa
Kamchatka (nero) / Monster (black), 2023
Hand woven tapestry, pibiones technique, wool and cotton, 200 x 440 cm
Handmade at M/U Mariantonia Urru by Alessandra Piras, weaver, photo Matteo Danesin, courtesy Studio La Città and the artist

Anna Galtarossa, Kamchatka (nero), 2023.
Hand woven tapestry, pibiones technique, wool and cotton, 200 x 440 cm.
Handmade at M/U Mariantonia Urru by Alessandra Piras, weaver, photo Matteo Danesin, courtesy Studio La Città and the artist.

19/06/24