Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | Feb 2023

Poetic digital illustration
“My imaginative universe is a mixture of suggestions,
references, and paradigms of memory in which I feed
on the past to claim a new order dominated by feminine
sensitivity and delicate timeless beauty,” says Alessandra.
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Alessandra Roccasalva, an Italian
graphic designer and illustrator,
lives and works in Marina di Ragusa,
Sicily. Alessandra graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, specializing
in painting and cultural heritage. She started
making collages for fun, mostly drawing
inspiration from works of art, and with millions
of dots of “Bézier,” she cut out, isolate, and
piece together other beautiful nature. She
believes that images, due to their ambiguity
and immense range of meanings, are a much
more accurate means of breaking down and
transmitting our perception of sensible reality.
Women, fishes, flowers, constellations,
chemical formulas, vectorial math, mind
syntagms, and subconscious ontologies.
Alessandra’s inner universe is a blend of
appealing, references, and memory paradigma
where the author absorbs the past to set the
path for a new order ruled by feminine sensibility
and gentle, timeless beauty.
In a figurative short-circuit between past
and present, her surreal collages are a welleducated
retread of the history of art upon
a technological note. The artist makes some
of the most famous contemporary icons to
narrate, in some sort of sarcastic puzzle game,
her passions, her driving concepts… in short,
her life. She does it with that typical, close-toobsessive,
care of details that is the well-known,
modus operandi of a graphic designer.
A reworking that turns these illustrations into
mirrors of the soul, into metaPHYsical visions able
to convey a sensation of a seductive mystery
where everything is symbolic and engages
further meanings. Behind the references
is hidden the explicit will to share, with the
audience, the rediscovery of ancient art; with
the recursive use of the number three, mainly
connected with the fish image, her own identity;
with the recalls to the water theme, the choice
of a life in close contact with the sea; with the
female portraits the belief that the role of the
woman should be more and more leading in
contemporary society.
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