Oreste Edgardo Rossi

Headline: Oreste Edgardo Rossi
Authors / artists: Oreste Edgardo Rossi
Texts: Maria Teresa Castellana
Language: Italian, English
Translations: Margherita Rossi
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-88-6057-296-7
Size: cm 16,5×24
Binding: paperback binding
Pages: 80
Price: € 20

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He ran at breakneck speed, after a day outdoors, in the meadows, In fields. Oreste ran because he had another game in mind and had to get home before his grandmother took over the kitchen to prepare dinner. Now, on his knees, he no longer feels the burning of his skin peeled by the brambles, absorbed as he is by the undertaking that has blackened his little hands and poured in the last cone of light at the window, his day so full of discoveries, of images. Oreste proudly contemplates the patch of brick-red flooring in the kitchen full of his drawings, while still clutching the vine wood cooked from the stove that he used as charcoal. This time too, grandmother Elisa will not be able to scold her favorite nephew. A child with a craving for drawing. First of all, what he sees around him: trees, animals, houses in the Cartosio countryside, in Alto Monferrato, where Oreste Edgardo Rossi was born (1946), he lived his early childhood and where he always returned to find his home, affections, the memories. Perhaps also to find himself in that innocence full of amazement and recklessness which still today - after a long artistic journey - makes him say that to draw you have to throw yourself on the paper like a child does. With impetus. Without the brakes of fears or hesitations and conditioning.
And since Oreste Rossi's graphic adventure started from an agricultural world, in this “place of images”, still full of surprises today, we pause while the papers flow on the work table in Albissola's studio, almost a stream full of... pages and pages that slip out of the folders, follow each other, they overlap, lights foam, ombre, chiaroscuro.
They are pages that tell stories entrusted to the expressiveness of objects: things take on the meaning of visual narrative cues, where memories emerge.
[Taken from the text by Maria Teresa Castellana]