Il potere dell’arte esemplifica la ambizione umana di perfezionare il mondo, per dare alla realtà un contributo nuovo, migliore, esprimendo ciò che è ancora inespresso.
Daisaku Ikeda
About me
EVERYONE CAN BE CREATIVE,
EVERYONE CAN BE AN ARTIST.
EVERYONE CAN BE AN ARTIST.
Stefano La Rocca was born in Rome on 11/04/70.After 15 years working as an architect (dedicated to bio-ecological constructions and treehouses-www.lacasasullalbero.it) and 5 as a skipper, leaves Italy to make his dreams of travelling and painting come true. For almost 12 years he has dedicated himself to painting and to the organization of events related to art, music, culture and cooking-nutrition. He has participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions in Italy, in the Canary Islands, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, where he has a painting kept in a museum (“The Presentation” house-museum of art and culture, Cartagena). While traveling he left many murals in Mexico and Guatemala. The work is almost always configured as experiments of study and research about new language and different styles and therefore turns out to be very differentiated. So always changing, ranging from black and white, to color, sometimes move away from purely descriptive, and sometimes using resin, plastic, sand, acrylic glue and supports of different materials such as wood, vinyl and cardboard.
Should be mentioned many social experiments started 10 years ago, called JAM-PAINTING. Those are collaborations with other artists, or improvisations with people in the street, such as the SLOW DOWN event in Costa Rica, or COMP-ARTE in Spain, aimed to found an harmony in the totality of a group of people working in the same canvas or other medium, and participation, which have brought diversity and richness to the work of the artist too.
Artistic background
Carlo
Rovelli (Quantum Physicist) in his book “The Order of Time” writes:
“(the world) is a mutual interaction where quanta
actualize themselves in the very act of interacting, with respect to what they
interact with….. The
world is like a collection of points of view in relation to one another.”
When
I began painting influenced by architecture and comics, the work was
characterized by black and white acrylic silhouettes and perspectives, and
configured as a search for the viewer’s point of view, in the sense of forcing
the viewer to imagine subjective protagonists and perspectives. The viewer is
forced to redefine and rework the image subjectively: this is why the first
expo of this research will be called INDEFINITE and will culminate in a work
that almost always induces the viewer to create a new viewpoint of his or her
own and often to compare it with the diversity of that of others. At the same
time, the work has another symbolic meaning: shadows are the mirror of reality:
the hidden other side that changes depending on the surface where it is
projected. On the way to the light our shadow, that is, the part of us that we
consider negative, gets bigger and bigger, but only by recognizing and
accepting it as balancing, the other side of our positive part, can we grow and
improve. After all, only those who see the other, larger, hidden part of
themselves see whole unity.
The
last period tells of an even more free search, a subtle tendency toward the
abstract or a mixture of the abstract and the descriptive, which, however,
basically picks up and connects to the initial direction, even with different
results: that is, it is always the observer-spectator who is the protagonist,
who has to give his personal interpretation of the image, and it is always
wonderful and interesting when he tells and reveals what he sees, impressions
and often also different stories. Just as coming from different experiences,
what we experience is purely subjective, what we will see will be a reflection
of ourselves, each with his own personal experience that differentiates us and
at the same time teaches us the value of empathy.
What I do
MISSION
La maggior parte dei miei lavori reca un messaggio. Ho bisogno di dire qualcosa, dell’interazione con gli altri. Ed è da questo che si apprende.
A questo sono mirati i lavori in bianco e nero: a stimolare la creatività.
Cosi come i lavori astratti.
Anche pero negli altri lavori precedenti e posteriori c’è una ricerca dell’indefinito o incompleto, con riferimenti a Hopper o nei lavori con spatola.
Altri temi importanti sono le ombre nascoste della società moderna e l’importanza e la scarsità dell’acqua come fonte della vita.
- il lavoro è una ricerca sul punto di vista dello spettatore. L’idea è quella di indurre a ridefinire e rielaborare l’immagine in modo soggettivo. Un lavoro che quasi sempre spinge l’osservatore a creare un proprio punto di vista e a confrontarlo con la diversità di quello degli altri. L’osservatore-spettatore è il protagonista. L’opera è un confronto-specchio per lo spettatore che può immaginare e creare, come succede alle volte vedendo un’opera astratta. Per lo questo motivo non c’è ne titolo e ne firma. E’ un invito a trovare un interpretazione o un titolo personale. Così come provenendo da esperienze diverse, ciò che viviamo è puramente soggettivo, ciò che vedremo sarà un riflesso di noi stessi, ognuno con la propria esperienza personale che ci differenzia e allo stesso tempo ci insegna il valore dell’empatia e della diversità. Allo stesso tempo, l’opera ha un altro significato simbolico: le ombre sono lo specchio della realtà: l’altra faccia nascosta che cambia a seconda della superficie su cui viene proiettata. Nel cammino verso la luce la nostra ombra diventa sempre più grande, ma solo riconoscendola e accettandola come bilanciamento, l’altra faccia della nostra parte positiva, possiamo crescere e migliorare. Chi vede l’altra parte di sé, più grande e nascosta, vede la verità, l’unita del tutto. Tutto è connesso. Tutto è Uno
Contact
- +39 3397848484
- stefano.larocca@gmail.com
- Viale Liegi 7, 00198 Roma, Italy