Portrait of Pushkin from the "Queen of Spades" series, 2024
Enzo ROZAMILIA, Italy

In the works dedicated to the story “The Queen of Spades”, there is no portrait of the heroes. The images dissolve in the historical space of the city and the interior. This technique allows us to convey the idea that passion, addiction to gambling, and the desire for easy money kill personality and erase individuality. The artist allows the viewer to complete the portrait of the characters in his imagination, and each of us becomes a co-author. The shell, the form, is clothing that exists independently in Enzo’s works, regardless of the real characters in the literary work. The space produces a mystical impression, just like the secular culture of the 19th century, with its passion for card games, spiritualistic seances, belief in the other world and the influence on the fate of Mephistopheles, not the individual. Pushkin, following I.V. Goethe and J.G. Byron, was fascinated by the theme of the influence of the spirit of evil on man, which Enzo Rosamilia subtly managed to convey in his works.

Limited NFT collection, specially for ART UNITES THE WORLD. BOUNDLESS PUSHKIN.

International exhibition project within the framework of the BRICS cultural program | October – November, 2024 | Russia, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan