WHITE SCALES
Mosaic on wooden board
Year: 2017
Size: 70×24 cm.
Weight: 2,6 Kg.
All the works are sent accompanied by the original Certificate of Authenticity drawn up and signed by the artist Rossella Casadio in a single copy.
On half of what was once a round piece of brown wood, with beautiful grains and traces of cream-colored paint, I created a mosaic in the shape of a semicircle, blending harmoniously with the wood. I included an old saw, fixed as part of the work, to gently mark the line between wood and tiles. The mosaic depicts scales in shades of white, marble, and Venetian enamels, defined by gray enamel, with sparkling highlights of orange and white Venetian gold that shimmer like light on water.
Each of my mosaics is born from an encounter with the wood: cleaned, brushed, restored, and always protected with an anti-woodworm treatment. Its grain, shapes, colors, and traces of time inspire the subject and guide the composition. The wood does not merely host the mosaic; it becomes an essential part of it, dialoguing with the artwork and completing it with its own story.
Materials: Venetian orange gold (24k gold leaf), venetian white antiqued corrugated gold (24k gold leaf), mixed Venetian smalti, raku ceramic, white Italian stone of Nanto, Brazilian Azul Celeste marble, crystals.
