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ABOUT US
Rondella is a rather bizarre character. He is the last heir of the infamous "Ancient Rondella Robottery," the workshop where the "Peaceful Robots" are born, and he lives in a place called "Cortésia." Cortésia is very close to the sea and surrounded by boundless countryside, places he frequently visits as his main source of inspiration. Cynical, sarcastic and ironic, sometimes vulgar and grumpy, but with a big heart, he is an empathetic man, excessively sensitive, easily moved, very attached to memories and pervaded by a perennial, calm and healthy sadness, so much so that he has earned the nickname "melancholic craftsman." He feels a particular attraction to the occult world, to funerary art and cemeteries, places where he takes very long walks. His "hermit-like" character leads him to confine himself to Cortésia with his beloved family, carefully rationing social relationships and meticulously selecting them.
Virginia, his adorable wife, or as the Robots call her "Mother Rondella," is a patient and calm woman, also "refractory" to worldly life, who accepts, not always willingly, all her husband's oddities. Anna is their only daughter. She is a very sweet girl with a strong character, also sensitive and respectful of others. She is stubborn, very curious, and has a deep repulsion for anything that is "banal entertainment." Her main passion is painting. Frida Kahne is their black dog, very intelligent, clumsy and a bit chubby, constantly looking for food and can't stand being washed. Grandpa Emilio, one of their family robots, is a very old automaton with a gruff and surly character. A great flirt, he has a visceral passion for all women and is officially in love with Mother Rondella. Particularly prone to getting into trouble, he often has problems with the law. He was built many, many years ago as an agricultural robot, and because of this, he walks around with his beloved hoe, almost as if it were a scepter. The Peaceful Robots are anthropomorphic automatons, inhibitors of negative energy powered by human energy. They manage to make the heartstrings of the humans they come into contact with vibrate at such a frequency as to inhibit the release of their negativity. In other words, they bring humans to a state of purity that can inhibit them from directing their bad feelings toward others. The intent of the Rondella Robottery is to spread their robots thoroughly, and when even the last human has been inhibited from releasing their negativity, only positive energies will travel through space. When this happens, the Rondellas will have accomplished their mission and the Peaceful Robots will have become the emblem of the greatest change in human history.
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SOUND EXPLORATIONS
Compositions created through the sampling of sounds from objects, materials, environmental sounds and through the use of unconventional instruments, built using recycled materials.
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February 2012. Video montage of images from the episode 5 of “Salento apArte” by Pompea Vergaro. Music: Rondella Filming and original editing: Fabrizio Palombella and Lucio Toma.
COMPOSITIONS 2010-2015
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PHOTOGRAPHY 2007-2026
STILL-LIFE
Compositions created with salvaged objects, food and waste materials (click on the image to enlarge it).
JOURNAL
Photos and texts: Rondella
TO MY DAUGHTER
Those lean paths that ennoble man - I've walked them all like a wretch, alone or with some demon like me. Remorse stung beneath my feet and I felt I was born to bleed. My father told me "you must wear a whore's face!" But I wasn't born to be a whore, I was born to bleed. I crossed them with lifeless eyes, shoulders heavy with self-pity, bent like a villain wandering to sow shame. Of all the damned seasons, there isn't one I haven't crumpled like a wrong page.
I know those paths, but I won't take you there. I want to see you advance without friction, without moving a muscle except in your mouth that only laughs and chews generous mouthfuls of conquests. I'd like to see you one day climbing up ambitions, without a scratch on your thighs, with those still-clean hands that once fit in my palm, gathering the fruits of all the damned seasons.
THE ELDERLY
The elderly walk with eyes turned backwards and memories in their mouth. At the mere intuition of death, they regurgitate existences and lay down lives in ears, like an inheritance. I, who habitually grow passionate and obey the law of the gut, notice, unfailingly, and take care to squeeze out meaning, like sap, finally wavering, saturated with experience and places, and affections, suspended, a foreigner in my body, between one life, mine, and a thousand others I would have wanted to live.
WINE AND TWINE
If you barely spot me with wine increasing the dose, you don't waste a chance to profit for the flesh. Remote you watch me, pierce me, clutch me and bind me to your darkened heart. Those arms like a snake wrap around me like twine so you lead me, beautiful and rapacious and poisonous, where others cannot imagine, yielded, to strip even my bones. And I, of fleeting worth, assimilate the poison, slowly, while red you tear apart my flesh.
FLOATING
When I was just a child, to teach me how to swim, they threw me in the sea without warning, as if to say: "survive, you'll find a way." At first, I was in an alien place, not comfortable at all. I saw that bit of water as if it were an abyss, and my kicking legs tried to climb it like a ladder without rungs. Endless. That water was a monster that swallowed me, a fierce beast.
Then, with time, I began to understand that even motionless my body floated. And I floated. I floated as if I had returned to water, proud like a tamer, convinced I had tamed it. Later I understood that the water had always been itself and it was I who adapted to it, domesticated.
RESIDUES
I am the product of a reciprocated love, the consequence of two individuals. Thrown as fodder to life, fruit out of season and out of place, I feel polluted. A sediment of social waste, a regrettable remnant of progress.
THIRST
In the act of burning the earth, I couldn't explain the euphoria even to the most erudite among men. Slippery, escaping hands in embraces, heretical in your word, among darting flames my servitude dissolves in a frightened dance of locusts where all is creatures' torment. In the ashen curtain that mind has become, I wet my throat with dubious words and that water, as putrid as vital, that dripped like frogs into my body, is now in the drought the blood I spit. In the darkness where I vegetate. In this rain of fire on hearts of ice I don't look beyond an instant, the instant that is end. I tried to quench my thirst with your words. Now gather these martyrs and you'll discover how much I've drunk.
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CINEMA
Rondella in the movie “Terra Mala”by Chiara Idrusa Scrimieri. (Trailer)
Production: Apulia Film Commission
Cast: Mino De santis, Rondella, Giovanni Dispensa, Giuseppe Pezzulla, Jonathan Imperiale, Massimo Cuppone, Giancarlo Montelli, Anna Cinzia Villani, Rachele Andrioli, Simone Dimitri, Pantaleo Colazzo.
The Peaceful Robot in the movie "The Garbage Man"by Alfonzo Bergamo. (Trailer)
Production: Fenix Entertainment, Gika Production.
Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Tony Sperandeo, Roberta Giarrusso, Randall Paul.