Raffaele Rossi

After his training at the Felice Casorati artistic high school in Novara, where he was lucky enough to meet the poet Sebastiano Vassalli, he moved to Mogliano Veneto in 1975, to study ancient painting. In 1978 he held his first personal exhibition at the Galleria La Fenice. He attended the courses of chalcography at the International School of Graphics and always in Venice, the Free School of Nude. In the lagoon he attended painters Valeria Rambelli and her husband Ottone Marabini’s workshop. From the two artisans he learned to grind and chew colors with egg tempera and oil,  the preparation of tables and canvases, the fresco technique and the mosaics’ composition. His later encounter with the craftsman-restorer from Treviso Giacomo Voltarel, who trained under the guidance of Mario Botter, was fundamental.

Passionate about the research on the reuse of materials and ancient techniques, he reinterprets them mixing material and painting in a single artistic gesture.

For the canvas preparation, Raffaele Rossi still uses egg yolk, rabbit glue, rice or flour starches, marble powders, sands, organic or inorganic elements that he mixes with Venetian turpentine or with other types of resin, using well-established recipes or at the moment reinvented ones.

In the nineties, Rossi visited various Murano furnaces, becoming passionate about the glass art, creating vases and objects.

He lives and works in S. Ambrogio di Trebaseleghe in the province of Padua. His works are kept permanently in the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano (TV), at the Splendor Museum of Giulianova (TE), at Credit Suisse, Bank Julius Baer, Bank Sarasin & Cie Ag and at the Hotel Sheraton in Hong Kong, at the frescoed hall in Son Apau, Azahar Jardineria y Riegos, in Palma De Mallorca in Spain.