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Andrea Rossi’s quest for visual art is manifested through paintings and moving images, the combination of which has resulted in cutting edge video projects. The artist is also a keen designer of sensitive environments. His works have been exhibited in Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the USA.
The artist lives and works in London.

The Academy has asked the artist the following questions:

A painter in London. What is your experience of this city?

The aesthetic experience of any city, in general, is very important. As far as museums, collections and exhibitions, London is just incredible. The landscape too is quite varied, and so is its multicultural society. Beyond its art, London never stops to fascinate me: its river, its architecture, the power of its financial centre, and all the things that, according to those who was born and bred here, hardly has anything in common with the rest of the country - London is truly unique.

What is 'the most' interesting aspect of your job?

The most interesting? I wouldn’t know exactly, however my work often presents a communative dimension that runs parallel to the aesthetics. In communication everything is important. For example, a good magazine picture is the product of different efforts: a casting to find the right model; a hairdresser and a make-up artist to give that model the best possible styling. Then is the location and the right props etc. And then, of course, there is the photographer who ‘puts everything into the magic hat to pull out his rabbit’. Similarly, when I think of painting, I visualise many different aspects of the object I would like to paint before I aproach the canvas.

Who or what has been fundamental to your artistic training?

I still remember the first time I saw the Sistine Chapel.

Your paintings appear to highlight what oppresses and at the same time what is most celebrated by contemporary society. Which of your works would you say best expresses this concept?

I express my thoughts as and when; the public recognises situations - sometimes people realise they are oppressed and at other times exalted. This, I think, applies to all my pictures. I don’t have a specific one that can embrace this concept.

In the series of paintings "flirters Without a Face" is a sense of anonymity. It portrays a reality where social values, relations and relationships are strongly influenced by the immediacy of a technological click .. Why give this interpretation?

One day someone told me that their best friends were those cultivated on the Internet. If they really believed that I would not know, but it left me puzzled. Personally, I need to see and touch - the virtual world doesn’t appeal to me in this way.

Your works invariably express sensitivity, sensuality, sexuality. How does this framewwork fit in the 'desir' of Jacques Lacan?

Perhaps Monsieur Lacan could explain it to me ... Joking aside, some time ago I chatted with a young lady about Lacan and how he was one of the first to point out that in every person there are both male and female sexual traits. I think Lacan would have appreciated the fact that in some of my paintings actualy speak of hermaphroditism and de-sexualisation.

If you couldn’t get to your brushes, which another communication medium would you use to express yourself?

Most probably i would experiment with three-dimensional space and and technology, but to this, I hope that it will not be necessary to deny me access to paitbrushes ...

In the series of "The Cabinet of the bioengineer" you discuss the conflict that sometimes exists between perception and beauty, between inner and outer reality. What is' perfection for Andrea Rossi?

Probably more than a formal synthesis, perfection is precisely the consistency between inner and outer reality where one enhances the other.

What is your message for young artists in search of affirmation?

Have a go at things ... experiment. Try to leave your mental blocks behind.