Luisa Rabbia/ On Drawing
By Parola d'Artista
Parola d’Artista: What importance and role does drawing play in your work?
Luisa Rabbia: The rhythm marked by the act of drawing seems to be essential for me to feel in the ideal condition to create.
Over the years I have really explored many possibilities of expression through the accumulation of lines that from a small sheet of paper have extended onto large formats and different materials. I have drawn on papier-mâché sculptures, large-scale ceramics that extend into space, video animations and paintings on canvas, first with coloured pencils (reaching formats of up to 3×6 metres) and then with oil paint in which the line of the drawing instead of accumulating has etched and subtracted.