Architectural and interior details,
rocks and animals are all hidden in the collage of trees. Overgrown painted animals
emerge from this uncommon vegetation. The richness of detail contrasts with the
monotonous repetition of the Florentine fleur-de-lis and the minimalism of
white and black fields of paint. A girl strolls by, flies, rests, climbs stairs
or simply lives in a world that does not follow the rules of gravity. The
landscape shown appears as though it were the reflection of a magic mirror.
This translates into symbols and synthetizes the complexity of reality and
restores it all in a new order.
Harmony and formal, spiritual equilibrium,
plus a desire of unity move my work. The factors called into play are many and
varied, and every work is a challenge and development strictly linked to
everyday life.
Alice Colombo
“Imagine a pure, crystalline dream, a tabula rasa where animate and inanimate
objects take shape. Imagine a delicate, sensitive creature like the heroine of
a Victorian fairy tale who is entirely intent on investigating, reflecting
upon, thinking, trying to set links, connections, conjunctions among seemingly
casual figures.
Eventually, imagine that this space of
images is like a notebook, a diary where one can write down the modus operandi
of every exploration.
Well, Alice
Colombo’s works are made in this way, unrealistic plates, conglomerations of
images to be decrypted as if they were enigmas, rebus, riddles created by a
feverish, restless and fanciful unconscious.”
(Ivan Quaroni _
extract from the catalogue The Place
Between)
