BOZHINOV/RICCI: TABULA IMPRESSA

5 - 26 April 2013

Francesca Ricci

Anarca (2012), ink and pastel on paper, version 1/3.

Francesca Ricci

Anarca (2012), ink and pastel on paper, version 1/3.

Francesca Ricci

Tabula Impressa, installation view (2013).

Francesca Ricci

Tabula Impressa, installation view (2013).

Francesca Ricci

Tabula Impressa, installation view (2013).

Francesca Ricci

Tabula Impressa, installation view (2013).

Francesca Ricci

Tabula Impressa, installation view (2013).

Francesca Ricci

Apocriphisms: The Sphere of Ethical Force (2013), transfer and egg tempera on board, 16 x 14 cm.

Francesca Ricci

Apocriphisms: Two Self-portraits With Parched Lips (2013), transfer and egg tempera on board, 16 x 14 cm.

Francesca Ricci

Apocriphisms: Lucky You! (2013), transfer and egg tempera on board, 16 x 14 cm.

Francesca Ricci

Apocriphisms: Whisper (2013), transfer and egg tempera on board, 16 x 14 cm.

dalla Rosa is proud to present the new project by artist duo Bozhinov/Ricci, Tabula Impressa is a visual-semiotic exploration broadly based on the Jungian idea that man is not born as a blank canvas but already carries elements from a communal, ancestral background.

The starting point of this project is a collection of signs gathered from the streets of London over the past year. This colourful and multiform alphabet, based on chance discoveries and carrying a limited vocabulary, has been classified in ten categories according to their shapes and arrangements, and grouped by their sensitivity to human experience and knowledge.

The surrounding circumstances – pattern of pavements, climatic conditions, presence of other elements in the immediate vicinity – and the embodiment of each sign with an inner meaning creates tools for a variety of descriptions and interpretations of reality. (Bozhinov/Ricci, 2013)

Bozhinov/Ricci is a duo of writer and artist sharing a communal field of interests, aesthetics and a cross-disciplinary approach to their research and practice. Their projects combine written and spoken word, visual work and references to other forms of human knowledge and experience.