"We have to build our paradises ourself, with our own creativity and in harmonie with the creativity of the nature"

Rosina

Gabila Rissone (civil name Gabriella Musumeci) is born in 1960 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her parents are Rosina Wachtmeister and the painting artist Paolo Rissone. Her family left Brazil in 1967 and moved to Rom. Gabila studied and passed her degree at the Conservatory of Music.

However it is not easy to ignore painting by living with parents who are both painters!

So began Gabila Rissone to paint small pictures and collages. She was just equipped with a notelock and a folder and sold her pictures on the Piazza Navona in Roma, where could be compared with an open air artists´gallery in the 70s because of the other artists on the place.

Her pictures are reproduced on art prints, calendars and floor mats. Gabila Rissone creates also stage design.

She has a son, Battista, who is born in 1980. He is ceramicist. Her daughter, Beatrice, is still studing.

 

"I have ever loved cats and all other animals!"

Rosina

„When we came back from Brazil, we were living in Rom. I sold on the Piazza Navona my first paintings!“

Rosina

"When I came to the ruinous village of Capena with other artits, I have been schocked by all abandonned cats and their miserable life, and I decided to take care of them"

Rosina

”Every cat looks different and has its own character. That is the reason why I have found a suitable name to each of them”

Rosina

”In 1974 we mooved to Capena. At the beginning we had no house and lived in a tent until we bought the ruinous church of Capena and rebuilt it in a house”

Rosina

"I draw my inspiration from Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Nicki de Saint Phalle"

Serafino

”Most of the decorative pieces in the house are coming from bulky waste where I have collected them. I restored them and have given them a sort of second life ”

Rosina

"My first tomcat was named Serafino. It was the cat of a 101 years old woman, Serafina, who I promised to take care of her cat after her death"

Rosina

"Arturo, my faithful friend!"

Rosina

„Capena would not be so beautiful without Capena!“

An habitant of Capena

„Rosina has so much energie and imagination!“

Battista