Monique Rollins
WELCOME TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND

Description

The monograph “Welcome to Electric Ladyland” offers an overview of Monique Rollins’ most recent artistic production, alongside previous works, tracing an excursus of her career. Rollins’ production is composed of oil paintings, acrylics, charcoal drawings and paper collages on canvas, using different mediums, including pencil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink and, in the latest production, textile material. Throughout her career, Rollins has exhibited in prestigious galleries and art institutions in America, Europe and Asia.
“Rollins’ post-expressionist abstraction manages to generate an aesthetic space that presents as a portal to another dimension in which thoughts, imagination and spirit come together, giving life to a multiplicity of aniconic narrations that question the observer and establish a dialogue with them around the existential issues of the human being. The beneficiary is encouraged to follow the forms and colours of the works as if they were maps for inner voyages and, when they believe they have achieved a final understanding or to have listened to the last verse of this silent music, then suddenly a new story seems to begin, a new symphony of colours and forms.” (From the essay by Roberto Mastroianni)