Dear Artist,

on the 14th of June 2022, the jury gathered in the seat of the Cultural Association Arte&Arte, to select the 54 minitextile artworks finalists of the contest.

The jury composed by Mimmo Totaro founder of Miniartextil, Paolo Bolpagni Art Critic and Historian and Sergio Gaddi art curator, examinated 314 adhesions.

We are happy to inform you that your work HAS BEEN SELECTED, and will be on show in Como, for Rosa Alchemico the 31st Edition of Miniartextil.

We wish to meet you at the opening of the show, scheduled for the 15th of October 2022 in Como.

Sincerely yours

Arte&Arte
Via Pannilani, 23I - 22100 Como
+39.031.4492481
www.miniartextil.it

                  Gertraud Enzinger      secret songs of a pink bird

                                                           anodized aluminium, steel, wood, 2022

Alchemy, a very ancient discipline between science and art, was inspired by the search for the philosopher's stone, a very pure substance that could transform metals into gold, heal the human body, distil a pure and universal medicine and reach the quintessence of nature. It was cultivated by eminent scholars such as Bacon, Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus. Carl Gustav Jung wrote a treatise on psychology and alchemy that explains how much the ancient discipline had helped him to develop his studies on dreams.

Pink, colour, flower, proper name, shade of nature, colour associated with kindness and sensitivity, is a powerful symbol which, in the history of costume, has not always only represented the female gender. In Luisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, pink was not only not associated with girls, it was considered to be a stronger colour than sky blue and was thought to be more suitable to represent boys.

 After the Second World War, in the United States in the 1950s, the choice was made to associate pink with the birth of a girl. And, from here, the colour began to mark the clear difference between women and men: from toys to clothes, to pink literature, to the Pink Line that supports women victims of violence, to pink routes in hospitals, to pink quotas.

We want to try to imagine the colour pink as something that does not create any gender distinction, that goes beyond the historical stereotyping and that, in an alchemic way, merges and mixes to generate new ideas. It is a complex and painful historical moment, in which we need to overcome all differences, without ever ceasing to think of the future with hope and magic.