Themes
Rossella Rossi is an Italian contemporary painter whose work explores water, light, and landscape as shifting states between reality and imagination. Her paintings move between abstraction and “subjective figuration,” where forms gradually emerge from layered color, movement, and energy.Across her themes, she investigates encounters between bodies and nature, the memory of places, and the symbolic power of color. Water, in particular, becomes a central element, representing transformation, freedom, and emotional depth, while light and landscape are reinterpreted as immersive, almost timeless spaces.
Blu Risonanze
Blu Risonanze is a series exploring human figures in urban swimming pools, where water becomes both a symbol of constraint and a path to freedom. Through deep shades of blue and fluid brushstrokes, bodies dissolve into movement, evoking a timeless, almost spiritual space beyond physical limits.
Terre vierges
The early series “Paesaggi” (landscapes) is inspired by Varigotti, a Mediterranean village, and is characterized by pure, vivid colors and an intense luminosity that captures the energy of the place. These works reflect the direct experience of the surrounding environment and its vibrant light.
From this foundation evolves “Terres vierges” (virgin lands), where the landscape becomes more essential and symbolic, moving beyond representation toward an inner, untouched vision of nature.
Rencontres
The theme “Rencontres” (encounters) emerges from a journey in Corsica, where the clarity of mountain streams and natural pools revealed a new relationship between body and water. This experience inspired a series of works depicting floating figures carried by the current, where human presence blends seamlessly with nature.
In “Rencontres” / “Incontri”, bodies cross, meet, and dissolve into fluid movement, expressing a sense of freedom where the human element becomes part of the natural flow. Between dream and reality, the work explores a state of continuous transformation and harmony with water.
La memoria del bianco
The series “La memoria del bianco” (memory of white) is inspired by the traces of sea foam left by waves on the shoreline, translated onto raw linen using only white paint. From this “white matrix” emerge ethereal, textured landscapes suspended between abstraction and figuration, where light, movement, and silence become the true subject.
At times, human figures appear within these compositions, blending into the wave-like patterns of foam, evoking a timeless space of purity, contemplation, and dissolution between reality and imagination.
Nocturnes
Nocturnes (Nocturnal) explores the beauty of water as a vital, life-sustaining element at the heart of natural balance. Through the contrast of day and night, the works unfold a symbolic language of color, where ochre evokes light, blue water, red life, and green nature, creating a powerful, elemental visual world.
In this series, water and sky merge into a poetic, emotional landscape shaped by a “subjective figuration,” where recognizable forms emerge only at the final stage of creation.
La memoria del bianco
The series “La memoria del bianco” (memory of white) is inspired by the traces of sea foam left by waves on the shoreline, translated onto raw linen using only white paint. From this “white matrix” emerge ethereal, textured landscapes suspended between abstraction and figuration, where light, movement, and silence become the true subject.
At times, human figures appear within these compositions, blending into the wave-like patterns of foam, evoking a timeless space of purity, contemplation, and dissolution between reality and imagination.
La via dell’acqua
La Via dell’Acqua (Path of Water) is a theme inspired by the continuous flow and transformative power of water. It explores fluid movement, light reflections, and shifting forms, where landscapes and figures merge into a dynamic, ever-changing rhythm between nature and emotion.
La forma dell’acqua
La forma dell’acqua (The Shape of Water) explores the ever-changing nature of water as both subject and medium, where movement becomes form and form dissolves into flow. The works reflect a fluid universe in which light, bodies, and landscapes merge into shifting, organic rhythms between abstraction and reality.
Oltre l’area… oltre l’acqua
The series of paintings “Oltre l’area… oltre l’acqua” (Beyond the Air… Beyond the Water…) explores the themes of wind, water, and the human body, seeking to fuse these elements through the free movement of the brushstroke and the dynamism of color, thereby achieving a new expressive power.