Wine Painting by Elisabetta Rogai

Italian painter Elisabetta Rogai uses red wine as artistic material.

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"I noticed what happened when some drops of wine fell on the dinner table, and I thought it could be an interesting idea to bring those kind of colors and shapes to my canvas. Of course, before arriving at a good piece of art I had to experiment a lot. It’s part of my nature since I used to paint on a canvas made of denim. About the type of wine, I choose those as dark as possible among young wines. Of course 95% of the wine I use is red (white ones are just for giving light in some spots)."

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Rogia notices a difference in the color and texture of her paintings around three months after she finishes them.

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"The wine aging, which normally occurs over the years, takes only a few months on the canvas.”

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"The difference between a freshly painted artwork and a three-months-old one is clearly visible; the texture changes and the colours evolve from young purples and cherry reds to more mature tones of amber, orange and brown."

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To keep the aging of the wine going on on indefinitely, until the colors fade almost completely, Rogai has created a natural color fixating system based on water and flour. This leaves the hues unchanged but prevents colors from fading over a certain threshold.

In addition to using regular wine, she also uses a grape residue similar to oil paints produced at the University of Florence, Italy.

Check her website: http://www.elisabettarogai.it/

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