Press release
CEREBRALE: a solo exhibition by Marco Rossi
The solo exhibition of works by Marco Rossi entitled Cerebrale, curated by Eleonora Mayerle, will open at 17:30 on Thursday 24 March at Spazio Thetis in Venice.
These works by the young artist from Bergamo offer the viewer an autobiographical exploration motivated by the simple, primordial need to identify oneself as a person and an individual.
The exhibition at Spazio Thetis consists primarily of paintings on paper of various sizes. There is also a multimedia work in which the artist presents a series of short, animated videos played in a loop on old 5-inch television sets.
The forms in Rossi’s works demonstrate the impossibility of situating oneself completely in one setting or another – his images go straight to the heart of the intimacy of existence, offering proof of a continual self-renewal.
His manner is therefore insecure, aniconic, contradictory, hard to define – he voraciously takes in all aspects of the reality that surrounds him, “filtering” it through his own consciousness and instinctively introducing it into his work. As the artist is not interested in one particular story, but rather all possible stories, he is able to maintain an energy that runs riot and “opens” the work to an infinite number of possibilities and developments.
The recurring figures in his works appear to curl in on themselves in a sort of autoeroticism that disarticulates the figures, dissecting them until they become human manikins or dummies. The human form thus becomes dismembered and overlapped in the framework of the space. The loss of the corporal shell not only allows what lies in the depths of the being to be seen but also shows the external forces that affect and alter its mechanics.
The exhibition catalogue, with texts by Marcella Anglani and Erica Bertoni, will also be presented at the opening.