Rona   Boyarski 

Recollections

Rona Boyarski, born in Israel in 1945, studied in Rome and exhibited in numerous public and private institutions around the world, from Japan to the United States, from Canada to Sweden. For the first time she arrives in Italy with a solo show, with her art, her story and her world, sometimes just a bit complex, but playful and fun.
I met Rona in Israel at her Tel Aviv home in the ancient Jaffa area. It was a special meeting that I will never forget. Her home is the mirror of her life and her way of being an artist, so different from all the others. Before to see her works, I asked her to tell me about her private life and what led her to paint, because I could see in her speaking eyes the restless need to send me a message.
Rona is an intelligent, cheerful, but at the same time melancholy woman, with a difficult life and, in particular, a childhood, marked by a trauma that only painting has brought back to life.
Her artistic creations are not trivial, they are technically flawless and express a unique sensitivity and depth.
A little girl with a doll in her hand is at the center of the Recollections series paintings. Our first question is: "Who is she?"
These creatures with somewhat sad eyes represent Rona, whom we often find detached from the group, which surrounds her, but with whom she does not interact.
The girl, the only white figure in a world of color, has an open mouth, no one knows whether to scream or sing, she brings her inseparable doll, the only friend in a world that seems to belong to a dreamlike dimension: with the very particular colors and the vaguely abstract natural and architectural forms, there is never a feeling of negativity, even if there is no apparent connection with the white figure.
Rona almost plays on the subtle boundary that separates the realistic and the surreal, and does so by making the viewer play by bringing him inside the painting, just as if he were taking us inside his life.
The artist who has found, through colored brush strokes, balloons, toys, the joy and happiness of a newfound serenity, after having become aware of and metabolized a drama that has now passed.

Written by curator Ermanno Tedeschi