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Roxy In The Box
 
 
About the Artist

Roxy in the box.
Born in Naples, Rosaria Bosso, alias Roxy in the box, lives and works there.
Roxy takes her school leaving certificate at the Art School; she specializes in Fashion design at the Naples Fashion Academy in 1988 and then in Fresco at the Building Institute of Bologna in 1993.
Eclectic in her art, she develops video-art and elaboration of images, installation and acrylic painting, offering to our senses a polyhedral and ironic imaginary made of a neo-pop taste of colour with sharp strokes and no shades.
Unlike the current use of digital technology, Roxy works with computers to project the first glamour-made image, that she makes comics-alike plasticized before painting with acrylic, all becoming a free hand work.
Her first experiences are concentrated on painting correlated to manipulation of widely use goods, from NUTELLA to powder detergents, following a new-dada philosophy, and creates ironic hints with her works, by playing with packaging – see the original group of the coloured blue-hair transvestite, an improbable testimonial of an improbable spreading chocolate, named Femmenella.
With a clear social background satirically formed, Roxy is always ironical about obsessions, habits, customs, feelings and everyday commonplaces without pedantry, only to make us think about them with a smile.

 
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Good Morning

2003
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150cm

A pop flower pattern is impressed on the picture and slides onto the blanket on the bed, becoming space to live within. A face shows up on the canvas, wearing a blue cap, reminding us about the Good Morning of any real day. Our room changes together with performer Rino de Masco. The installation excites the atmosphere, and a place transforms in the ironic territory of mimetism, of any possible excess, of an upside-down of any old normality taken for granted.

Femmenella

2003
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm

Mimetical and diverse, complex beyond the presence of brand names and bodies, Roxy identifies herself with the products she chooses to re-elaborate but also with the characters which feed her unique form of fetishism. The style of protagonism the artist adopts is cynically spectacular, deriving from intelligent and visual intuitions and a sensual form of irony which envelopes the culture of the highest form of pop imagery. Her visions harmoniously roar with melancholy and explode with languid sounding colour. The body shifts from excessive representations of herself to that of her many alter-egos seized from the endless possibilities available in today’s world. The actions, combined with still imagery, impend on the observer with the same natural and magnificent ambiguity of an emotionally touching. Roxy does not compromise; she is true to herself and to her need to create to survive. Colour becomes resistance, her figures become resistance. A battle in which transformism narrates the many faces a body is made of and in particular the soul.

Lady Rabbit

2003
acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm

Daprés

around and we all fall down

2004
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm

Psycodonkey

2002
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm

Strawberry juice

2002
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm

punti di svista

2006
acrylic on canvas
2pz x 75cm x 150cm

mai dire maia

2005
acrylic on canvas
50cm x 70cm

 
Education and biography
1986 High school certificate in art, major in print-making and graphic design for the advertising industry -L'istituto Statale d'Arte Filippo Palazzi, Naples
1988 Fashion Design - Academy of Fashion, Naples
1993 Fresco decoration Istituto Edile, Bologna


SOLO SHOWS
2008: "message in a bubble"_a cura di Micol di Veroli_Dora Diamanti arte contemporanea_Rome
2006: "Pulp...Azioni" Galleria Franco Riccardo Arti Visive Naples-Italy
2005: “La Svernissage” A cura di Antonio Arevalo_Galleria Studio Fontane_Viterbo_testi in catalogo di Vittoria Biasi e Antonio Arevalo.
2004: "Kitakkat" A Cura Di Gianluca Marziani_Galleria Stop.Sistema Creativo _Roma
·Presentazione Del Video " Kitakkat "_Operà Cafè_A Cura Della Galleria Stop.Sistema Creativo _Roma

2008:
. Emergencyrooms by Thierry Geoffroy Museo Pan Naples curated by Julia Draganovic, Laura Barreca e Francesca Boenzi
. Non Solo Pop_ Arte fiera off Bologna
2008:
. Lumin Aria segni luminosi lungo le strade del centro a cura di Simona Perchiazzi_ Napoli
.Presentazione del documentario Schiaffilife (Slapslife) by Massimo Andrei alla XIII edizione festival arteCinema a cura di Laura Trisorio_Napoli
. "The Enterprise of Art" curated by Julia Draganovic_Museo Pan_Napoli
. Bye Bye Baby a cura di Roberta Vanali_Laboratorio 168_Cagliari
• Arte contemporanea moderna Roma_palazzo dei congressi EUR con il progetto “Hotel Poooop” a cura di Gianluca Marziani
• N.EST 2.0 the making of the city/ disegna la tua città, Museo MADRE (Napoli), 13 gennaio-25 febbraio 08, a cura di Gigiotto Del Vecchio e Stefania Palumbo
2007:
• HOTEL POOOOP_Galleria contemporanea Pescara a cura di Gianluca Marziani
• N.ESTube, Festival della Creatività, Firenze, Fortezza Da Basso 25-28 ottobre 2007 (Palazzina Lorenese)
• Sagome 547 progetto di Domenico Giglio per l'Unicef a cura del Ministero degli Affari Esteri
2006:
• Arredo Palazzo Italia_Belgrado_a cura della Farnesina
• TRASFORMATION a cura di Gianluca Marziami_Stragapede & Perini_Milano
• WONDER WOMAN a cura della Sovrintendenza BAP PSAE di Napoli_Città della scienza_Napoli
• R-EVOLUTION a cura di Micol Di Veroli_Abitart Hotel_Roma
• Mind games a cura di Karin Andersen_Galleria Marconi_Cupra Marittima (AP)
2005:
• Cow Parade_”Polpa Fiction” Piazza della Signoria_Firenze
• Fair Play 1° edizione rassegna + concorso di videoarte a cura di Laura Carcano_Complesso di Santa Sofia_Salerno.
• Vitarte_Viterbo_Galleria Stop.Sistemacreativo
• Aural Sculpture (S) da un idea di karin Andersen a cura di Edoardo Bridda e Christian Rainer_Sanremo
• L'Angelo neomelodico_Video per la rassegna di danza contemporanea_Teatro Ballhouse naunystrasse_Berlino a cura di Mario Torella di Romagnano

2004:
• Finalista Sez. Emergenti "Premio Celeste" Galleria L'albero Celeste_San Gimignano
• Toronto International Art Fair_Toronto Canada_ Stop.Sistema Creativo
• Tra Scrittura E Fotografia_Festival Di Blera_"Primo Amore"_A Cura Di Antonio Arévalo_Viterbo
• Torre D'avorio A Cura Di Giovanna Coppa E Gabriele Di Labio_Cepagatto (Pe)
• Between The Sheets (2) Roma_ Stop.Sistema Creativo _A Cura Di Gianluca Marziani
• Between The Sheets Milano Flash Art Fair C/O Una Hotel Tocq Stanza 422 Curata Da Gianluca Marziani E Galleria Stop.Sistema Creativo
• Montecarlo Art fai_Montecarlo_Francia_Galleria Stop.Sistema Creativo

2003:
• Collettiva Stop.Sistema Creativo _Roma
• Delirio_Trani A Cura Di Giusy Caroppo
• Artissima 2003 Torino Galleria "Changing Role"
• Pill Number One_Pinacoteca Dinamica_Cambobasso_A Cura Di Koma' Gallery
• "D'aprés" _Da Azinger A Warhol_Collettiva A Cura Di Peter Weiermaier_Galleria Gas_Torino
• 1° Premio_ Concorso Spot Video Tim _ Convention Como _"Con Tim Sempre Vicini"
• Arte Al Cubo_Arte Fiera Bologna_A Cura Di Michele Mariano_Koma'
• Gallery

2002:
• Exhibition_Calendar_Works On Paper_Studio Tommaseo_Trieste_A Cura Di Franco Jesurun E Paola Bonora
• Progettazione Spazio People Care _Telecom Italia Mobile_Napoli
• Maredeu_Installazioni_28° Edizione Festival Di Corciano (Pg)_Regia Di Franco Zaccaro
• L'isola Del Tesoro_Palazzo Della Duchessa_Arte In Miglianico Tour 2002_Iv Edizione A Cura Di Gabriele Di Labio_Chieti
• Yourself_Autoritratto_Sesto Senso_A Cura Di Stefano Pasquini_Bologna
• Female Touch_Centro Culturale Il Navile_A Cura Di Isabella Falbo_Bologna
• Exit 6: Art Love & Peace_A Cura Del Campo Delle Fragole_Bologna

2001:
• Roxy In The Box, Karin Andersen, Squp, Consuelo Endrigo,Rivkah Heathering_A Cura Di Michele Mariano_Koma' Gallery_Campobasso
• A'madonna Maculata_Installazione_Teatro Della Bugia_Clips_Regia Di Franco Zaccaro_Roma
• Pasquale Cassandro E Roxy In The Box A Cura Di Maya Pacifico Per La Rassegna Intercity Da Napoli_Progetto Di Costantino D'orazio E Claudia Colasanti_Futuro_Roma
• H2o_Teatro Spazio Libero_Napoli

2000:
• Exit 5_Roberto Vitali_Centro Inaip_Bologna
• Roxy In The Box, Consuelo Endrigo, Graziella Reggio,Annamaria Iodice_Centro Culturale Il Navile A Cura Del C-Voltaire_Bologna

1999:
• Lo Specchio Di Venere_Galleria Il Campo Delle Fragole A Cura Del C-Voltaire_Bologna
• Che Madonna E'?!_Performance_La Casa Dell'arte_Laurino_Parco Del Cilento_A Cura Di Ugo Marano E Pasquale Persico

Hanno Scritto Di Lei:
• Maya Pacifico , Franco Zaccaro, Pasquale Persico, Ugo Marano, Isabella Falbo, Giovanna Coppa, Sabrina Vedovotto, Antonello Rubini, Francesco Urbano, Elena Savigni, Andrea Romoli, Giusy Caroppo, Gianluca Marziani, Gigi Padovani, Laura Carcano, Antonio Arevàlo, Vittoria Biasi, Federica La paglia, Julia Draganovic, Katia Ceccarelli, Micol Di Veroli. Renata Caragliano, Anita Pepe, Daniela Ricci, Stefano Taccone, Irene Tedesco, Sonia Grossi, Ciro Cacciola, Sarah Galmuzzi, Massimo Andrei, Diana Marrone, Fuani Marino, Renata De Renzo.
 
Website:  www.myspace.com/roxyinthebox
 
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