Suelos, 2019
Installation. Cement, time, and gravity on sponge
3 pieces. 150 x 300 x 10 cm each
BilbaoArte Foundation Collection
Registry No.: 2021.461.1
Milena Rossignoli’s practice revolves around exploring the behavior of materials and their sensory relationship, delving into the dynamics of softness, rigidity, tension, suspension, and curvature. She works on space as a site of overlap and continuous transition between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. A nomad by biography, the world’s measurements appear in her research as relative and subject to perpetual mutation. Elastic. Space is subject to an individual and composite perception: gaze, body mass, sight, hearing, smell, and even mood. Milena creates a complex and oscillating system of recognition and definition, which each time requires analysis and a new approach. At the center of her focus is emptiness, emphasizing absence and free space because it is contained by a structure, an envelope like architecture. The geometry of construction serves as the structural value that defines the cardinal points of her work and constitutes the key to understanding, translating, and reorganizing reality.
Milena Rossignoli (Quito, Ecuador, 1990) studied in the Design and Visual Arts Research department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (2012-2016), the Painting department at Weisensse Kunstshule in Berlin (2015), and the Sculpture department at Escola Massana d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona (2014). She has held solo exhibitions at White Noise Gallery, Rome (2019); AnaMas Project, Barcelona (2019); La Escocesa, Barcelona (2017); Localedue, Bologna (2016); and Autofocus Spazio Vanni, Turin (2016), among others. She has also been awarded grants by the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2018) and the BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao (2019). Additionally, she has participated as an artist-in-residence at the cultural space La Infinita, Barcelona (2019), and collaborated as an artist on the Ping Pong project for the Sala Mendoza Foundation, Venezuela (2020).