Rossana Taormina (Partanna 1972) is a growing presence among the contemporary Sicilian artists.
Her childhood is marked by images of the landscape devastated by the violence of the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley.
The charm of the ruins and the construction of a temporary building, the first slow emergence of the artistic utopia that would culminate in Burri's Great Cretto in Gibellina, deeply affect his formation.
The dazzling encounter with the family photographic archive, recovered only in part from the rubble, the progressive loss of the configuration of the places of her childhood following the post-earthquake reconstruction induce in her a natural feeling of memory that finds a way to express itself from the very beginning. artistic achievements production the sense of loss and recovery become fundamental coordinates of the artistic reflection that revolves around the re-elaboration of the poetics of the object trouvè.
Her artistic intervention, which involves authentic photos, maps, nautical charts and favors the use of thread, linked to the memory of her grandmother embroiderer, has a strong inclination for the contamination of languages. Painting, drawing, site specific installations and in some cases, as for the series of frottage of the soil of the city of Palermo, performances make up the whole of his works
Rossana Taormina's work has been exhibited in Italy, Spain and the United States and her artistic research appears in international magazines and publications.
It was noticed last summer in the group show held in Palazzolo Acreide at San Sebastiano Contemporary https://www.sansebastianocontemporary.it/Artisti/gli-altri-siciliani-8-fotografi-1-ingegnere/ even if its presence among the handful of selected photographers was perhaps the most eccentric being Taormina a great user of photographic images but not a photographer in the proper sense.
Her presence is now expected at the stand of the Ragusan Galleria Lo Magno https: //www.gallerialomagno.ita which represents her at Fiera Arte next January in Bologna, while there is already talk of an important personal exhibition that will be held starting from next May inside the Teatro Tina di Lorenzo di Noto.