
FLAVIO ROSSI

Flavio Rossi, was born in Campinas and graduated in Visual Arts at the ‘Pontifícia Universidade Católica – PUC de Campinas’, he also did various courses in drawing, illustration, and painting during an artistic residency in Italy.
Being encouraged to draw by his father, at sixteen he was already working at an advertisement company, doing packaging illustrations, and through ten years of career he worked for big names in the editorial industry as ‘Editora Abril’ e ‘Folha de São Paulo’.
The painting starts to take place in his production after he decided to leave the advertising area to focus on his artistic career. The sculptures appear in his work during his artistic residency, when he started to explore resin and alternative materials. Soon he becomes known for the use of different media and techniques, the enhanced facial expressions, the humorous drawing, editorial illustration background, the pop aesthetic, and vibrant colors.
Exploring the mediatic explosion and the visual bombardment in the contemporary world as his artistic research, Flavio aims to represent the different ways our mind processes and normalizes the constant excess of images in our day-to-day, from our phones, social media, or in outdoor advertisements and street posters. Described by the artist as a “fragmentation and union” process, he collects diverse images from various places, dismembering them, and then uniting the pieces in a final image that represents our perception. Overlapping these figures with a focus on the human figure, he brings a portrait of the contemporary mind.
Inspired in names from the figurative, pop culture, and contemporary art, the artist references Lucien Freud, Yue Minjun, and Francis Bacon in his construction of the human figure, in Chaïm Soutine’s brushstrokes, and Jeff Koons’ pop representation of the contemporary world.
With over thirty individual and collective shows in Brazil, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, U.S., Portugal and England, Flavio Rossi has taken part in national and international art fairs, bringing with him over Twenty art prizes beyond having had artistic collaborations with great names such as Ron Wood.