Roberto Russo

My name is Roberto Russo (latigreassenza) and I was born in 1961 in Cattolica, Italy, but since I was a child I live in Pesaro. Although my paintings are understood in the genre of abstract expressionism for me they are stages of a research that I do about myself by exploring concepts and materials, beyond genres and classifications. Rather than abstractionism, it seems to me to do portraiture. Only that I portray figures, faces, physiognomies of creatures in nuce, in formation. Sometimes I think that my works represent life itself at the moment of conception: they are snapshots of molecules scattered throughout the universe, lumps of essences floating in space and time before being conceived ontologically. I realize how all this can be called abstract expressionism, conceptual painting, etc., because such is what emerges, the final evidence, but I like to simply portray glows of existences that arise from shadows, subliminal landscapes formed by figures that exploded or in aggregation. Something nascent, a presence that is not yet there but that could be there, that is going to be or, why not, that there has been.
Technically I work on canvases that I prepare with layers of plaster and then apply the color on it. I use acrylic pai...

My training is literary: I am a PhD in Italian literature; I have published poetry, poetry in prose, essays and translations. As a musician I have released records with the glam rock group "The Boohoos" (1986/1989) of which I told the events in a book ("Too much too Boohoos", Crac Edizioni) and I am still active on the main platforms. I recently released a double CD of random and rumorist electro-concrete music together with friends Giovanni Tommaso Garattoni and Pierangelo Caforio with the project ‘Tecno Zaclen / Zac Tum Tum’.