Margaret Levo Rosenberg
Margaret Levo Rosenberg (Bridges - AL, 5 June 1958)
Dedicated to painting since adolescence, He has defined himself as an artist since the very early nineties, with new and different awareness, he declines his own style as a code of cognitive proceeding, expression of the continuity of thought processes, regardless of the formal outcome of the work; begins his psychological research on creativity and psychotherapy through visual language. In those years he founded the Pandeia group, which brings together artists from different backgrounds, on the basis of the absoluteness of expressive freedom.
From 1995 to the 2014 he is the artistic director of the Museattiva Claudio Costa in Genoa, where he selects and curates the collection and temporary exhibitions of the Artismo project. The museum was dedicated to its founder (with the name of Museum for the Unconscious Forms and Materials) died prematurely in 1995.
In the same years, indicated by Tommaso Trini, he is a tutor for students of the Art Therapy courses at the Brera Academy.
He moves his research, from the very beginning, on the link between thought, verb and action, on new relationships between objects, linguistic representations and iconic representations. Stimulated by the procedural aspects of reality, experiments on relational levels, verbal, scriptural, iconic, aniconic, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, gestural. Operationally it expresses itself on multiple linguistic sides; from the performance, of a strong symbolic character, to the installation of plastic forms built with recycled materials, of nursery rhymes, tongue twister, poetic and lyrical prose. Investigates the expressive potential of different materials, almost always recycled elements, like colored plastics, acetic, x-ray films, books, magazines, advertising material and natural elements, exploiting the nuances of intrinsic meaning, be it linked to form, to consistency, to color, to transparency, to the name or function, transforming them into new forms of life; installations in which the play of irony and ambiguity merge in the disenchantment of his gaze. His poetics are inspired by “themes and problems surrounding interpersonal solidarity, to the relationship between being and appearing, to the homogenizing outcomes of the uprooting of the individual and the community from
terra, to the loss of the sense of belonging and identity, to the excessive power of the mass media..." (V. Conti ‘09), and “criticizes from within the chaotic obsessive flooding of the iconosphere that surrounds us” (L. Caramel ‘08). There are countless publications concerning her, both in Italian and foreign art magazines and in degree theses and catalogs that accompanied the numerous national and international exhibitions, in public museum spaces and private galleries, in various parts of the world.
His work has aroused the interest of important art historians and critics, collectors and semiologists who closely follow the path of this extraordinary artist who with her works creates coexistences that invite the viewer to become an interlocutor. Works in private and museum collections, in Italy and abroad. Lives and works between Ponti (AL), Genoa and Tel Aviv.
