Vitra House 2, 2019.

The human experience can be accounted for through pain, tragedy, and love; a sense of never ending movement. Human existence is more than the singular, but rather a symphony of existence woven into one another is what makes community.

Mario Rossi captures this intersection between the grand and mundane, the hurt and joy, the going and stopping. His work, through fragmented pieces, isolates the things that make people feel. Rossi’s artistic influence has been shaped by the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement, which began to bloom in the parisian scene but soon met Rossi as a young Italian photographer in the late 1970’s.
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Expo Mirrors lll, 2015.
In contrasting fashion, Rossi photographs still moments in a moving life. His work has a rhythm identical to the pulse of the body. His work Che Fretta shows fragmented pieces of the lives of different people; a frantic and out of control rhythm, other times it shows a more mellowed beat, but always beating, searching and learning. Similar to that of the human body, Rossi’s photography is that exact reflection, how are we, as singular people, identical to those all around us. Those who make us part of a whole, a community.
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effetto Pantheon, 2018.

Rossi doesn’t shy away from the moving—in fact he encourages it. Rossi’s works are not posed or produced in order to sell the illusion of singularity or isolation, but once he stumbles upon moments of calm, he captures it on camera. Many of his pieces have the foundation similar to that of a chess board. Pieces moving around the board in order to get to where they need to go. In many ways, Rossi is a grandmaster, for he looks at the whole board. His familiarity with every corner allows for this immense intimacy with the isolated and singular.

In his series Effetto Pantheon, Rossi shifts the lens from getting the bigger picture to a more narrowed focus, a more intimate event. The background of each work fading from view, the one objection of affection in plain sight. He isolates the subject from the background in order to focus attention away from the chaos. Rossi finds a moment to capture candid and honest moments of solitude. These works are a reminder that isolation doesn’t have to be a constant state, but rather a moment.
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SL Forty Three, 2020
Mario Rossi captures moments in a landscape of life. Some works feel like they are still in motion, others are of a definitive peace, but nonetheless, Rossi shares the lens in which the world is, always moving, and always beating.

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