Simone Rosti
Artist/
Photographer
Simone Rosti
Photographer
Bio
Artistic Cv - Last Exhibitions/ Publications
February 2015: selected in a “Special Recognition Award” for on line exhibition at “Light Space Time Gallery” (“All Photography Art Exhibition”: www.lightspacetime.com)
6th–21th February 2015: international collective exhibition of contemporary visual art (”Vibraciones Cromaticàs”) at Crisolart Galleries in Barcelona
28th March 2015–4th April 2015: international collective exhibition “Italian Soul Contemporary Art in UAE” at “Art Hub” Abu Dhabi (Cultural and Artistic Center) - Official catalog published
9th-20th May 2015: international Exhibition of Contemporary ART EXPO 2015 at Palazzo Stella in
Genova - Official catalog published
13th July-31th August 2015: selected for Photissima Art Fair 2015 at Campo dei Fra-ri, San Polo, Venezia, simultaneously at the 56th Art Biennale Venezia - Official cata-log published
05th–12th December 2015: international exhibition “Italian Art Fair in UAE” at “DUCTAC - Mall of the Emirates - Al Barsha Dubai - Official catalog published
16th-18th January 2016: international collective exhibition of modern and contempo-rary art “Piacenza Art” at Piacenza Expo in Piacenza – Official catalog published
12th-15th February 2016: XII international exhibition of modern and contemporary art “Genova Art” at Genova Expo in Genova – My artwork published in the official catalog
28th January-28th February 2016: collective exhibition of contemporary art “Expo Bologna 2016” at Wikiarte Gallery, Bologna - Official catalog published
May 2016: my artwork "Claustrophobia" has been selected as Honourable Mentions in the London Photo Festival 2016
May 2016: 31st Chelsea International Fine Art Competition by Agora Gallery New York – Selected (with Award Certificate) for one year exposure on ARTmine web site which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers
July 2016: my artwork “In the Biginning” was shortlisted (with a critic statement) in the top 20 images winners for Life Framer Photography Prize “Open Call” 2016
04th-10th May 2017: international exhibition “Italian Vanity Art” in UAE at the Gal-lery of Light of the Dubai Community Theatre & Art Centre - Official catalog pub-lished
London Artrooms Fair 2018 - International Contemporary Art Fair for independent artists; from over 1.1K of applications from all over the world, I’m one of the 70 art-ists selected with the highest scores from the Selection Committee for the exhibition London Artroom Fair 2018 (20-22 January)
31th October-4th November 2018: selected at Paratissima 2018 for collective exhibi-tion (special section NO PHOTO, contest “You call it strange, I call it familiar”), Ca-serma Lamarmora, Torino
30th October-3th November 2019: selected at Paratissima 2019 for collective exhibi-tion (contest “Multidiversity”), Ex Accademia Artiglieria, Torino
24th-26th January 2020: selected at Paratissima 2020 for collective exhibition (con-test “Needs”), Magazzini Romagnoli, Bologna
Statement:
I am intrigued by essence and absence.
I shoot through rapid movement of scenery: this is the starting point for subtraction, exasperation of contrast and scarification of the image until nothing but essence is left, an intimate and hidden projection of Self, an outstretched hand towards the viewer. The viewer is completely immersed in a psychedelic dimension. In my art-works the viewer will find the starting point to ask themselves the meaning of time between past, present and future. In my artworks there is always a street, because streets are a symbolic place of transit, of transition, of passage, of thoughts, of dreams, of illusions, of tears, of loneliness, in suspension towards our mysteries. This is the reason why in my art time is frozen, with no visible place to reach, simply the world around me. The streets simply vanish into darkness.