Through a thin wall, Giangiacomo Rossetti's first institutional exhibition in the United States featuring work from 2016 to the present opens at The Power Station, Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, April 19.
Rather than a survey, Rossetti imagines the exhibition as "a remix or a mash-up." For the occasion he has invited the architect Alessandro Bava (and studio partner, Fabrizio Ballabio) with whom he previously collaborated to create a large-scale intervention for the industrial space of the Power Station: a thin blue wall made of wool cloth that splits the space in two.
Rossetti's work outlines the implications of feverishly looking at, studying, and absorbing painting, while retracing the imprint it makes consciously and subconsciously on his production. Borrowing from Realism, High Renaissance, Mannerism, and Futurism, Rossetti makes use of style and painterly tropes to filter the compositional strategies in his own work. This impulse, uniquely woven through the fabric of Western art history, entangles subjects taken directly from the artist's personal life and surrounding orbit–sometimes, the subject is the artist himself.
Giangiacomo Rossetti
Through a thin wall
April 19 – July 1, 2023
Source: Mendes Wood DM
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