Biography
Elisa Rossi was born in Venice on February 10, 1980. She graduated in 1998 from the Artistic High School of Treviso and in 2004 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. She lives and works in Treviso.
Elisa Rossi has nurtured a great passion for drawing since she was very young, considering the choice of the art school a natural one. She later completed her education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, graduating with a thesis on Nan Goldin. American photography establishes an inseparable connection between art and everyday life, representing the effects of the passage of time and sometimes unorthodox habits on its characters. Elisa Rossi starts from here. She photographs what surrounds her, particularly her sister Giulia captured in the intimacy of the family environment, and constructs a sort of preparatory sketch. Then she proceeds to create the painting. Not very sensitive to the aesthetics of hyperrealism, however, she chooses tonal painting: in this way the image evokes, more than the sphere of reality, that of memory and therefore assumes a timeless character. Furthermore, thanks to the light inspired by that of Jan Vermeer, the everyday takes on a magical tone. In the "No Entry" series, the atmosphere becomes more unsettling: it seems that the protagonist feels threatened and denies herself to our eyes. The dialogue with the viewer is interrupted, as if to indicate the need to reclaim the intimacy violated by our gaze. Or, the young woman is symbolically standing on the threshold. Alongside the focus on the person, Elisa's research also focuses on fabrics. The repetition of the gesture in the execution of lace, or a weave, a word that can also be used for writing, becomes like a meditation on the painterly gesture, which also becomes an intimate reflection.
Everyday objects also take on symbolic significance: the clothesline becomes a hiding place, a protection, the washing machine indicates a moment of cleaning and renewal, the scissors cut dry branches foreshadowing a new bloom, the key marks the end of the "no entry" from a few years ago. Elisa Rossi, opening up the most intimate part of her soul, actually leads us on a journey made of eternal moments.
