Giangiacomo Rossetti: The Dead

The exhibition presents an expansive body of work by Giangiacomo Rossetti. Curated by Milovan Farronato, the presentation features a series of new paintings, including the largest canvases the artist has produced to date, shown alongside existing works. The project marks a significant threshold in Rossetti’s practice, focusing on how painting can expand in both scale and vision.

His figurative language, traditionally rooted in portraits of friends and intimate circles, opens up to what the artist defines as a ‘cosmic breath’. This shift moves the work into a rarefied field where physical, abstract, real, and imagined worlds collide. The colour blue serves as a recurring thread of continuity across the exhibition, appearing in a series of single-colour monotypes that evoke spiritual and atmospheric tonalities.

A central point of reference is the 2018 work “Untitled, After Balla’s Scena spirituale uomo e donna nel fluido compenetrato di luce”, which pays homage to Futurism. This earlier approach is revisited and amplified in the current exhibition, notably through a new large-scale canvas inspired by Piero della Francesca’s masterpiece, “Dream of Constantine”. This trajectory reveals a form of painting that retains figurative truth while embracing a broader, fluid dimension where past, present, memory, and anticipation reconcile within a shared blue tonality.