Texture

Brunella Rossi was born in Genoa in 1957. Since 1991 she has lived and worked in Milan.

After an initial self-taught path, she refined her technique thanks to the teaching of the painter Tata Ferrero. She is influenced by the new Ligurian artistic current (Rocca, Sturla, Zappettini), but it is her acquaintance with the sculptor Ferraris that ignites the spark that will lead the artist to gradually abandon traditional painting technique in favour of a stylistic form that intends to transfer the expressive power of matter onto canvas.

The need to overcome the insubstantial materiality of watercolour or tempera pushes Brunella Rossi to make the pictorial surfaces increasingly rough, experimenting with the application of the most diverse materials (sand, glass, marble dust) on her canvases. Her painting becomes increasingly freer and more informal, but no less rigorous in its skilful handling of the naturally undisciplined material that is sand.

Her sandstones have practically replaced the colours of the 'tubes' in a great natural palette with incredible tonal variations, and his compositions are, in the end, lyrics dedicated to the great Mother Earth, executed only with what the earth itself gives her. Her ability to establish a relationship of intimacy with matter still constitutes her most heartfelt and evident peculiarity as an artist.