Mario Rossi
Title
2D Pathway Leader
College
Central Saint Martins
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Biography
Mario gained an MA at Royal College of Art London. He has been a Gulbenkian Rome Scholar, undertaken a fellowship in Creative Art, from Trinity College, Cambridge University and gained a Fulbright Award for Visual Art.My research ranges across various media and specifically, in terms of production, focuses on painting; its enduring potential both as a space of action and encounter, in relation to dominant modes of representation and distribution.
I have recently been making work and exhibitions that place painting in an uncomfortable relation to itself, institutional procedure and the political subject. I am currently revisiting what might be considered the overdetermined subject of the 'seascape', which in relation to the issues above re-emerges as a loaded but charged site. A screen onto which we project a sense of who we are, or imagine we might be. I am co-initiator of the on-going curatorial visual arts project ‘strangers to ourselves', which since 2001 has taken on various experimental exhibition forms responding to context and site. I am a member and regular contributor to Paint Club a University of the Arts research network that explores and debates what it means to research painting within the context of contemporary art practice.
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Rossi M. Annex 1 Annex 2 (2018)
- Rossi M. 100 endings (2017)
- Rossi M. Annex/circulars (2016)
- Rossi M. 100x100 untitled (2016)
- Rossi M. Heaven and Hell (2004)
- Rossi M. A Bout de Souffle: Simultaneous Pulsations and Reminiscences of Killer Fog (2003)
- Rossi M. Killing Time (2002)
Article
- Rossi M. The Most Dangerous Game (2019)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Rossi M. Conversation with Michael Borremans (2010)
Show/Exhibition
- Rossi M. Annex: Circular no.11 in Sink Without a Trace (2019)
- Rossi M. The End/Untitled in As Seen On Screen (2019)
- Rossi M. It's a Front (2018)
- Rossi M. THE END/untitled + 100x100 (2015)
- Rossi M. Un-spooling: artists and cinema (2010)
- Rossi M. Heaven and hell (2010)
- Rossi M, Belleguic M, Stewart J. Strangers to Ourselves