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27/9/2005

Mimmo Roselli

Two venues, Wien

Two exhibitions

“La grande acqua” - Theseustempel / Wien by support of Museum of Fine Arts Wien
opening: 28/09/2005 h. 6 pm

We present this painting installation, a cicle of 23 pieces, in this ancient building in the city center of Wien. The wiew of the installation will be pose above the human head line, so a virtual situation is created to find ourselves the receptors under water. This work by Mimmo Roselli was done before we had to face the power of water by floading desease in the last couple of years.

“La grande acqua”, hosted in his space of Kunsthistorisches Museum, reflects on water as an element of “… lightness and transparency, is mixture and stratification, is richness of details, is a transparency with thickness very light, is a quantity and ad libitum, is essential like art, so that there is history, there is variety, there is complexity (M.R.)”

opening 28/09/2005 h 6 pm
opening speech Dr.Wilfred Seipel (Dir. Museum Fine Arts – Wien)

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“Un km di linee di piú” – Museum Arterra
Berndorf-Wien
opening 02/10/2005 h 11 am

Three years after the opening of this private Museum for Contemporary Arts the italian artist Mimmo Roselli could be gained to work a group of 7 installations (Rounds) as a field of Rounds. Seven interventions are guidino through natural valley, creating and defining space in artistic matter.
“Un km di linee di piú” is a sort of conzert with 7 movements; the 7 Rounds take as site specific the large park of Museum Arterra to represent it.

At the same time a retrospective of the last decade will be shown as works on paper, a san epilogue focusing on the venue of the composition in the space.

opening speech Ewald Stastny (Dir. of Museum Arterra)

opening 02/10/2005 h. 11 am

the exhibition will run till spring 2006

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Write Mimmo Roselli about his work:
For many years, I have dedicated my work to analyzing the concept of the border: only using the glazing and layering technique, there is maximum reduction of image. Lightness and transparent together with rich of detail is produced through the stratification, multi-layering of glazing color to reach something that is not a body of matter, but a transparency with thickness, with weight, very light, that take his own power by depth. The spaces, so built, are furrowed by signs that cross like a walk in a vast landscape. So that there is no loss of history, no loss of variety, no loss of complexity, even if the is an apparent absence of things represented. This basic idea is linked to the “borderline” concept: everything that is on the border has the characteristic of being extremely unsettled. This situation has an enormous capacity, the power of changing.

My installations, I call them, lines defining a space as environmental sculptures, pulled from one place to another place, disappearing into that wall place appearing from another; they are a sign of a link, representing solidarity between peoples, the memory of the thousands of human destinies: meetings, disagreements, embraces, perspiration, perseverance, toil, pain, love, thought, omnipotence, poverty, filth, innocence.

Mimmo Roselli, born in Rome (1952), based in Bagno a Ripoli/Florence, Italy, works internationally in Europe, the United States and South America.
His work developed into two principals directions: one dedicated to explorer the idea in a public-political way (the experience with margin society with Guaranì people, Bolivia from 1985; Favela of S.Marta, Rio de Janeiro 1991; Hospitals, curator and editor of an international conference about Art and Hospital, Firenze 1998, as the principals), the other one, as his studio working, with different exhibiting experiences, from wich recent projects include: Kentler International Drawing Space NYC, 2005; Lodz Biennale, Poland Oct.2004 (see the report by Christopher Lyon in Art in America, April 2005); “Il paesaggio dell’acqua”, Ashaffenburg Museum, Germany 2003; “Round Thetis” (permanent installation), Venezia Arsenale, Italy 2003; “Cosmogonia” (oms), Bergamo Museum, Italy 2003, Heidelberg Museum, Germany 2002; “Samadhi”, CAM, NYC 2002; “Der Berg”, Heidelberg, Germany 2002; “Terra Agricola”. Open Air Museum Arterra, Berndorf/Wien, Austria 2002; , L.A. International Biennales Invitational; Prato, Museo Pecci, “EcceHomo”; Munchen, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Bergamo, GAMeC and Firenze, Museo Marino Marini, „Circum 2 2 2, 2002“ “Viajes a Bolivia” (oms), La Paz Museum, Bolivia 2001; “Del paisaje” (oms), Buenos Aires Centro Recoleta, Argentina 1999; Editor of the book “Art in Hospitals”, Gli Ori 1999, presented at IIC NY, Dec.1999.

Theseustempel inVolksgarten - Wien
open hours: tu–su 10 am–6 pm

Museum Arterra, Buchbachg.6, Berndorf/St.Veit – Wien

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