Self-taught painter, born in Catania in 1949, she developed her passion for art from an early age, expressing an artistic nature dictated by innate creativity and inspiration, demonstrated over the years by design, styling, embroidery and fashion studies. That of Anna Rondine is an immediate art, inspired only by the emotion of the moment, but mediated through an inner path that leads the artist into an "other" dimension, through which she observes the real and reproduces it according to her "vision". Each of Anna Rondine's works represents her very personal way of seeing the world, in which the subjects portrayed are marked and "signed" by the characteristic lines in movement, peculiar to her paintings, and by the spatial composition within colored painted frames also defined with curved lines, which represent a sort of "window" through which the artist observes the image from an external dimension, the arrival of a long, troubled and exciting journey that leads to serenity and inner peace.

The artist's journey, outside the visible reality we know, is expressed in the "spatial" subject paintings, where, through a work of objectification, an escape to a parallel world is expressed in which to expand the consciousness and release the deepest emotions of the ego, thus finding the key to dissolving and overcoming the anxieties and concerns of real life. The themes and styles of Anna Rondine are incredibly variuos and heterogeneous, as they are inspired solely by her interiority: the abstract subjects are flanked by figurative, landscapes and still lifes, always characterized by her distinctive and personal trait and versatility in the always new use of painting techniques and styles.

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Among all, we recall the folkloric themes of our Sicilian cultural tradition, from puppets and paladins portrayed with dense brushstrokes of bright and brilliant colors, to dancers of folk dancers in bright traditional costumes, to colorful carts in parade at patronal festivals, led by harnessed horses of multicolored ribbons and feathers, reproduced with skilful strokes capable of enhancing both the shadows and the lights and the colors, and that even without being clear, manage to make us perceive the image with such precision as to make it appear almost a photographic shot. Far from representing mere folkloristic icons, the Sicilian-themed paintings represent the strength that our culture has of channeling the vital forces and rebirth of nature through the rite and tradition that, in an eternal dance of energies, cyclically restart the time of our actions and found the history and principles of our land.

The works of Anna Rondine for 50 years have enriched exhibitions throughout Sicily, starting from experiences of extemporary nature up to the numerous reviews and both personal and collective shows, organized, among others, by the cultural association "I cavalieri di Federico II - Federiciana" and "OmniArtEventi " Study Center.

 

Between 1983 and 2019 she has set up 15 personal exhibitions throughout Sicily.

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E. C.