Rosemarie Fiore
Monday, 7 September 2009
Recently, I have been wondering about the control I have in my life. I like to think that I have complete control in my life - in my actions and my undertakings, but since life revolves largely, if not entirely, around cause and effect, can I truly say my actions are not mere reactions? To what extent do I control my life? And to what extent does the force of randomness and chaos rule it? This is the very notion that spoke out to me when I stumbled across Rosemarie’s work and read her artist’s statement.
“My drawings are created by containing and controlling firework explosions. I bomb blank sheets of paper with different fireworks including color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, fountains, magic whips, spinning carnations, ground blooms, rings of fire, and lasers. As I work, I create imagery by controlling the chaotic nature of the explosions in upside-down containers. When the paper becomes saturated in color, dark and burned, I take it back to my studio and collage blank paper circles onto the image to establish new planes and open up the composition. I then continue to bomb the pieces. These actions are repeated a number of times. The final works contain many layers of collaged explosions and are thick and heavy.
I consider my firework drawings invented dimensional spaces in which the forces of chaos and control combat. The visible traces of the fireworks’ detonations, transform the explosion spectacle into fixed mini universes of streaks, shooting sprays of vibrant pigments and shimmering fields of color.”
Artist’s Statement sourced from Priska C. Juschka. Visit Rosemarie Fiore’s website to see more of her beautiful work.
No. 1 — September 8th, 2009 at 2:56 am
i respect your work, but for me there are too much colors,.. but i love your logo! its fantastic!
No. 2 — September 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
[...] Rosemarie Fiore is an artist from NYC who creates some amazingly organic pieces of art. These puppies look like they are some kinds of living organism soaked in ink and fluid of some kind. They look to be captured mid-flow by a slow motion macro lens. She created all these images on a large canvases (6ftx6ft) out of fireworks. Attaches smoke bombs and other pyrotechnics to a long stick and paints with them as they explode and erupt. What a great idea with an even greater result. Check here work here. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]
No. 3 — September 8th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
[...] Rosemarie Fiore’s colourful ‘Pyrotechnics’ pieces are made by painting with fireworks! Brilliant colour, clean geometric shapes and an great illusion of depth. via Siong Chin’s blog [...]
No. 4 — September 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
[...] Source: siongchin [...]
No. 5 — September 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
[...] Rosemarie Fiore’s colourful ‘Pyrotechnics’ pieces are made by painting with fireworks! Brilliant colour, clean geometric shapes and an great illusion of depth. via Siong Chin’s blog [...]
No. 6 — September 9th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
A colorful adaptation of Cai Guo-Qiang’s work with gun powder?
No. 7 — September 11th, 2009 at 4:21 am
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No. 8 — September 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am
[...] Rosemarie Fiore’s colourful ‘Pyrotechnics’ pieces are made by painting with fireworks! Brilliant colour, clean geometric shapes and an great illusion of depth. via Siong Chin’s blog [...]