Luisa Rabbia at the opening of her exhibition, Love, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2017.
Luisa Rabbia blends the distinctions made between the human and the natural, expressing solidarity with the cosmos through the organic, bodily landscapes of her expansive paintings. The scale of Rabbia’s paintings suits the themes she explores, oftentimes depicting overlapping abstracted figures joining and breaking apart, seemingly overcoming their physicality. She alludes to interconnected natural processes forming a thread between microcosms and macrocosms and interweaving them in a nebulous primordial state. Continually in flux and transforming, her forms created in expressive hues also evoke spiritual transitions. Upon closer viewing and bringing this substantial work to a more intimate level, her physical and intuitive process becomes visible with its rhythmically scraped paint, the stratification of pencil marks, and imprints of fingertips. Rabbia alludes to the minute traces that each person leaves over the course of a lifetime, yet simultaneously asserts an expansive and interconnected vision of a wider universe.
Luisa Rabbia (b. 1970, Turin, Italy) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy. Solo institutional exhibitions include The Drawing Hall, Bergamo, Italy (2022); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2017-18); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (2015; 2008); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Fondazione Querini, Stampalia, Venice, Italy (2009); Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (2009) among others. Group institutional exhibitions include Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy (2025); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2025); Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (2023); Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA (2022); Reggia di Venaria Museum, Venaria, Italy(2021); Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, Cold Spring, NY (2020); Palazzo Drago, Palermo, Italy (2018); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (2018); Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (2016); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2013) among others.
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