About her work

Beautiful Trash Series by Rosario Bond are neo-expressionistic sculptures made out of thick layers of materials collected from her daily experiences. Beautiful Trash Series are ensembles of recycled objects, industrial plastics, feminine artifacts, artificial plants, found toys, discarded packaging that set over dislocated compositions and disrupted combinations. They are covered with black pigment and glossy resin, creating a daunting visuality that alludes to our dislocated and chaotic world.

In her paintings, Rosario Bond juxtaposes numerous layers of thick impasto, set over multiple drippings, disrupted lines, and child-like figures where individuals, objects, and nature intertwine in voracious relationships. She depicts parodies portraits represented through gestural brushstrokes and a bright and intense palette. Bond dislocates the modern narrative, dismantling logic and linearity in the character’s connections in the scene. She tackles and traps her figures in a challenging Meta discourse dominated by parody and dark humor. Her paintings and sculptures are collections of personal mythologies combined with critical imagery, posed over disrupted settings and dislocated compositions inhabited by unusual and eerie objects. Her works are a monumental palimpsest of delirious and contrasting characters that allude to the feminine condition as well to other critical aspects of our contemporary civilization. War children, displaced and abandoned minorities, are also part of the metaphors she proposes underneath these compounds of wild and rough elements. Bond establishes a radical dialogue with the Contemporary German neo-expressionists. In her works she satirizes through sarcastic figures in allusions to fashion, consumerism, and the cultural demands in our contemporary society. The saturated scenarios and the broken blocks of materials only give us a hint of what is the sociopolitical environment nowadays.

Milagros Bello \Curator