A R T S T A T E M E N T

My need for self expression started at the very early age. Overwhelmed by powerful emotions and in search to the existential question: Why am I here? …I unconsciously felt that the only way to be well was to become one with Nature, dissociate from the world entering a state, that I can now recognise as the so called ‘flow state’.

I spent hours being with animals and observing the ‘Movement of Nature’ made of moving forms: smoke rising, fire dancing, waves, branches intricately embracing each other, clouds interesting with the wind…and the perfect astonishing forms of animals, insect, minerals, shells, flowers….

I always felt mesmerised by this complex simplicity and I presume that in some way I absorbed it. I loved it and still do.

Feeling a need for freedom in my body the first form of self expression was dance. I became a professional dancer, but when I got injured I searched for other means of expression and healing.

I found that drawing abstractly and in particular posing one line after another forming abstract forms, was effective for my nervous system. I could self regulate my emotional state and find inner freedom and peace.

I also searched and found healing and answers in many other Body-Mind techniques(Yoga-Traditional Thai Massage-Meditation-Family Constellation-EFT-Shamanic Journeys-Rosen Technique-Ayurvedic Massage….) and Artistic Techniques (Sculpture&Installation - Videoart - Ceramic), but DRAWING is my main door to inner peace.

My drawing are now between me and you (the other)….. What do you see?

My drawing are based on the concept of PAREIDOLIA. The instinct of human mind to search for forms where there are none.

Our specie communicate with energy, shapes, sounds, intuition… Anyway the codified letters and words came after. There are shapes that talk to our collective consciousness and subconscious mind.

Archetipal shapes triggers some emotions and we are constantly surrounded by logos, signs, symbols…. The apparent chaos respond to rules of self organising order.

Symmetry and Asymmetry trigger our mind in a different way and Sacred Geometry is embedded in nature around us and in the vegetables we eat.

The question now is: if we heal our inner nature are we still in time to heal the world? 

E X H I B I T I O N S

2021 - September 17th - October 23rd

‘Pareidolia’

Solo Exhibition ‘The Palm Beach’

Curator Sandrine Viu Masia

Rue Meyerbeer 61 - 1190 Brussels

2020

Joined ‘The Palm Beach’ website as Artist

www.thepalmbeach.be

2019

‘Honouring Nature’ Exhibition - Installation - Performances

L’Usine - Brussels

Curator Antonella Cusimano

‘Nothing But Art’

Palazzo Velli Trastevere - Roma 

Curator Monica Ferrarini M.F. Eventi - Anna Isopo Arte Borgo

‘Unconventional Visions’

Galleria Spazio 40 Art - Roma

Curator Monica Ferrarini M.F. Eventi

2018

‘Una Solida Leggerezza’

Curator Monica Ferrarini M.F. Eventi 

Complesso Vicolo Valdina - Roma 

2017

‘ACAF’ Accessible Art Fair

Curator Stephanie Manasseh 

Palais des Beaux Arts  Bruxelles

‘Ehtic Lab’

The Palm Beach - Sandrine Viu Masia - Brussels

2016

‘TAP - The Art Project’

The Palm Beach - Curator Sandrine Viu Masia - Brussels

‘Pure Art Fair’

Curator Lesley Samms

Battle - UK

2015

The project ‘Labyrinth - Os’ passed the first selection at Laguna Art Prize - Venice - Italy

2014

ACAF - Accessible Art Fair 

Curator Stephanie Manasseh - Brussels

‘Parcours D’Artistes’ - La Hulpe 

2013   ACAF Accessible Art Fair - Stephanie Manasseh -Brussels

C O L O R I N G B O O K

‘S Y M M E T R Y & A S I M M E T R Y’

This Colouring Book has been conceived to enjoy the colouring process and relax your mind. Colors have an inner power and the action of colouring has a soothing effect on our brain.

The Hand-Brain coordination is an elegant, fascinating and complex system that we often give for granted. The eyes react to shapes and colour in astonishing ways and all the time. Shapes and colour can awaken emotions, attraction or repulsion. They both communicate to the conscious and subconscious mind.

This Colouring Book focuses on S-ymmetry and A-symmetry. The natural world is mostly symmetrical as well as the animal kingdom and our human body.

S-ymmetry

links to aesthetic, harmony, beauty and respond to the rules of Sacred Geometry and golden Ratio. We can appreciate it in a flower, a butterfly, a bird….as well as in our human body.

A-symmetry

instead confuses the brain, but also intrigued it. The brain made ‘curious’ by watching something asymmetrical, opens up to a wider range of possibilities of interpretations. Choose the tool you prefer: watercolour, pastel, pens, pencil etc…. Just let go and be transported by the pleasure of your eyes and the movement of your hand. ….. b e h e r e a n d n o w …. and just enjoying colouring freely! ;)

Antonella Cusimano has always been fascinated by the brain, its wide range of possibilities as well as its difficulties and dysfunctions and how A R T, as a mean of self-expression, can facilitate and support a Mind - Body - Soul Healing Process.

The Power of Colouring

Colours have an inner power and a personal meaning for each of us based on personal experiences.

Even if many colour theories exist and different cultures attach to colours different meanings, colours are a personal experience. They communicate to our conscious and subconscious mind.

This Colouring Book focuses on Symmetrical and Asymmetrical shapes. It presents 12 Symmetrical and 12 Asymmetrical original drawings, that you can enjoying colouring using different tools. It has been created playing and overlapping 14 original hand made drawings