Jose romussi

Chilean artist Jose Romussi adds embroidery to paper photographs to extracts a third dimension, and thus a nascent personality, out of an otherwise flat image. By doing so, Romussi opens space for alternative interpretations and methods of viewing a staged image. The artist refers to his work as an "intervention," and in many ways, his intentions are similar to other contemporary artists who use yarn as a method of interrupting the norm. Like "Yarn Bombing," which is often performed as a…

Berlin-based multimedia artist Jose Romussi has an ambivalent, push-and-pull relationship with photography; for Anti-Serie, he appropriates found fashion and beauty photographs and overlays them opaque embroidery that alternately reinforces and subverts the intentions and emotional currents of the original image.

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I love it when artists bring life and texture to two dimensional photos and drawings by way of embroidery. In his latest series Newserie, Chilean artist Jose Romussi embroiders flowers and geometric doodles over pages of fashion editorials. Look…

Jose Romussi proposes a creative exercise based on experimentation with materials related to textile art. We appreciate a delicate and subtle yet aberrant and enigmatic proposal. Jose succeeded in completing a rebellious, generational and contemporary discourse, a reflection in tension with the atavistic and the ornamental. Its manufacture gives way to free and unstructured embroidery, emphasizing the use of organic materials that make up an imperfect and expressionist geometric composition…

Chilean artist Jose Romussi adds embroidery to paper photographs to extracts a third dimension, and thus a nascent personality, out of an otherwise flat image. By doing so, Romussi opens space for alternative interpretations and methods of viewing a staged image. The artist refers to his work as an "intervention," and in many ways, his intentions are similar to other contemporary artists who use yarn as a method of interrupting the norm. Like "Yarn Bombing," which is often performed as a…

Chilean artist Jose Romussi studied landscape design but became famous with silk prints and collages over the past years. Romussi takes vintage black & white photographs and saw over some colorful thread adding a playful touch to the frozen postures of the models. He is especially attracted by dancers and ballerinas that seem very sensual […]

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