Painting with wine. In Florence, the new solo exhibition of Elisabetta Rogai

Elisabetta Rogai, among the best-known contemporary Tuscan artists nationally and internationally, returns to star in an exhibition in Florence after her solo show in the Sala d’Arme of Palazzo Vecchio: in fact, at La Loggia in Piazzale Michelangelo, the Florentine painter’s new solo exhibition entitled Sliding doors will be inaugurated on May 25, open to the public until June 25, 2022, with free admission.

About forty paintings completed in a decade of art will be on display, summarizing the techniques used by the artist: from painting on denim canvas to traditional oil painting, to paintings made with Enoarte, painting with wine, or with wine and oil paints. Since 2011, the painter with her Enoarte has succeeded in fostering the meeting of painting and enology. In fact, she paints using exclusively red wine instead of color: on the palette, wine becomes art thanks to the natural fixing technique adopted by the artist, that is, the colors do not fade beyond a certain threshold. So the wine ages on the canvas, passing from the typically youthful colors to those characteristic of maturity. Normally, in the cellar this process takes several years, while on the canvas the transformation of the nuance starts already after one month and is completed in the following months. For Sliding doors Elisabetta Rogai will propose several collections: flowers painted on denim canvas; female images with elegant, sophisticated, sporty women, to which are added more recent ones, painted on board and bearing behind a bar code as if everything was coded according to market rules; and then horses, a frequent subject for years in her art.

“Based on the assumption that we all have a desire for beautiful things and to be optimistic,” said the artist, “I thought of sliding doors, beyond which we can find different and positive things after two years of pandemic, then war and now even these earthquake tremors that have sown panic. Here, with my art I would like to convey this need to look at life with confidence again.”

Supported by Podere Fortuna di Cafaggiolo (Barberino di Mugello), Tiziana Petracchi (Private Advisor Santandrea Luxury Houses), Chianti Banca, Allianz Assicurazioni, Bartolacci Design, Macuz and Malva, the exhibition represents Elisabetta Rogai’s first artistic endeavor for 2022, having given up her already scheduled exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Hours: Daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Free admission.

Painting with wine. In Florence, the new solo exhibition of Elisabetta Rogai

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