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ROSSELLA ROSSI
BEYOND THE SURFACE- Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
Bellagio 9 -17 september 2025
GRAND HOTEL SERBELLONI DI BELLAGIO
Rossella Rossi speaks to us in an ancestral language made of translucent veils of colour that can penetrate deep into the human spirit.”
Elisa Larese Moro
Rossella Rossi’s works are born from the primordial flow of water — an ancient and mysterious source that shapes every form, every hue. It is the silent breath that flows through her canvases, a living element that weaves together memory and dream, matter and spirit, in a perpetual dance of nuances and transparencies.
What makes Rossella’s art truly extraordinary is her subtle yet incisive ability to go beyond the surface of the contingent, to probe what lies beneath the veil of everyday appearances. Her brushstrokes, light yet enveloping, do not merely depict the visible image: they delve into the DNA of matter, trace the deep currents of art history, and engage in dialogue with the oldest roots of visual culture and human sensibility — speaking a universal language of beauty and harmony.
“Voir c’est imaginer” is the motto of this artist, for whom seeing is never a passive act but a creative gesture, an opening toward imagination. Every glance at her works becomes a journey into the realm of possibility — a space where reality bends and transforms, yielding to dream, to memory, to emotion. In her paintings, water is the mediating element that transfigures the everyday and the contingent, dissolving into an imaginative yet powerful visual language.
We are no longer in the presence of a mere representation of a natural element: water becomes a metaphor, the keeper of ancestral secrets — a liquid memory flowing across epochs, myths, and symbols. Her canvases echo Greek myth, with its tales of life’s origins in the primordial waters. They seem to emerge from a timeless ocean, where each shade is the heartbeat of an ancient soul.
The water in Rossella’s works vibrates and shifts like a liquid dream, while faint echoes of great masters barely touch her surfaces: Turner’s evanescent light, settling as softly as a breath; Odilon Redon’s dreamlike delicacy, transfiguring reality into visions suspended between dream and symbol. And in this eternal flow, timeless figures resurface — Botticelli’s Venus, poised between sea and sky with ethereal grace, and the sublime harmony of Canova’s Amor and Psyche, reimagined as aquatic beings embodying the subtle force of life and love, at once material and ephemeral.
Each brushstroke becomes a wave; each colour, an echo of water traversing time and space. Her canvases transform into liquid temples — architectures of matter and dream — where the aquatic element shapes the very essence of form and existence.
Through the reflections of water, the artist leads us on a profound journey, where ancestral tales are rekindled into fluid corporeality: “aquatic creatures” that embody the subtle force of life and love. They are figures beyond time, draped in a grace suspended between sea and sky, bearing within them a harmonic note sublimated into a luminous, liquid substance — an eternal symbol of a feeling that knows no bounds.
An artist with an international reach, Rossella Rossi remains deeply rooted in the marine atmospheres of her native Liguria — an inexhaustible source of inspiration — while Paris has long been her second home. She has carried her “waterways” to prestigious venues in Dubai, Miami, and Paris. In Italy, her Ligurian homeland has hosted her in a major retrospective at the Palazzo Reale in Genoa and at the Botanical Garden Museum of Villa Carlotta. Her devoted, passionate public follows her ceaseless flow — an art of regeneration and rebirth that invites us to immerse ourselves beyond the surface and listen to the silent song of water, guardian of every secret and promise.
Rossella Rossi opens for us a suspended, intimate space — an invitation to be carried by the subtle current of life, where every reflection is a story and every wave a poem.
testo a cura di Elisa Larese Moro, storica dell’arte
SELECTED ARTWORKS:
Noces I, 150×200 cm, 2018
La forma dell’acqua, trittico, 180×300 cm, 2018-2024
Psyché et la transfiguration, 150×100 cm, 2020
La Révolte, 100×120 cm, 2021
La funambule aquatique, olio su tela, 100×100 cm, 2019
Mediterraneo 2, 150×100 cm, 2017
The Water Life, 100×120 cm, 2019
Matrice de Turquoise, olio su tela, 100×100 cm, 2019
Valse de liberté, olio su tela, 60×80 cm, 2020
La Recherche III, olio su tela, 50×70 cm, 2011
Equorée créature, olio su tela 30×30 cm, 2017
L’ARTISTA: ROSSELLA ROSSI
Rossella Rossi nasce tra i profumi salmastri e le rocce antiche della Liguria, dove il mare sussurra storie di vita e mistero. Dopo un lungo viaggio nel mondo della scienza, immersa nel linguaggio segreto della genetica e della biologia molecolare, il suo spirito si riaccende alla luce della pittura, trovando a Parigi la sua rinascita artistica tra gli atelier storici della Grande Chaumière à l’École des Beaux-Arts.
Ritornata a Milano, abbraccia completamente l’arte, tracciando con pennelli e colori un dialogo profondo con l’acqua e la natura, elementi eterni e mutevoli, custodi di simboli e di sogni. Le sue tele diventano specchi d’acqua in cui si riflettono corpi sospesi, figure che si dissolvono in spiriti leggeri, un gioco delicato di forza e fragilità che invita lo sguardo a perdersi in un immaginario onirico e magnetico.
La sua produzione si fonda su un rapporto profondo con l’acqua e la natura, elementi ricorrenti nella sua pittura su tela o lino, con olio o acrilico. Attraverso la simbologia dell’acqua, Rossi conduce lo spettatore in un viaggio di sensazioni universali, dove corpi sospesi si trasformano in spiriti liberi, fondendo forza e delicatezza in un immaginario onirico e magnetico. Le sue opere esplorano tematiche diverse: l’acqua come elemento vitale e primordiale; il bianco come silenzio carico di possibilità; la natura in paesaggi vibranti e ipnotici; la mitologia con figure ibride che uniscono divino, umano e animale, simboli di metamorfosi e spiritualità
Attraverso il fluire dell’acqua, Rossi ci conduce in un viaggio di emozioni universali: il bianco è silenzio vibrante, la natura un mosaico di paesaggi vivi, la mitologia una danza di figure ibride, dove divino, umano e animale si intrecciano in metamorfosi che parlano di trasformazione e spiritualità profonda.
Rossella ha esposto in numerose mostre personali e collettive tra Parigi, Milano, New York, Seoul, Pechino, Tokyo, Dubai e oltre, partecipando a fiere e saloni prestigiosi come Art Capital al Grand Palais di Parigi e alla Biennale di Firenze. Ha ricevuto premi importanti, tra cui il Diploma d’Onore al Premio ARTE 2016, e il Premio della città di Saulieu nel 2018 su ARTE Magazine, Art Vision Monde e Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna, e sostenuta da istituzioni e progetti internazionali, tra cui Tablinum Cultural Management raccontando con grazia e potenza la bellezza nascosta tra il visibile e l’invisibile.
LA MOSTRA AL GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI
The luminous heart of a return to Lake Como – The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is not merely an exhibition venue: it is a place of the soul, where history merges with the infinite language of water. This historic palace, resting on the shores of Lake Como, becomes the perfect haven to welcome the art of Rossella Rossi — her brushstrokes, as light as they are profound, find here a fertile ground on which to reflect, dance, and renew themselves.
Following the success achieved at Villa Carlotta — a site already steeped in charm and history — renewing the dialogue with the territorium, yet in a different setting equally charged with emotion, takes on a special significance. The Serbelloni offers rooms dressed in light, gardens suspended over the lake, and vistas that convey the eternal breath of water. Here, the primordial element that so deeply inspires Rossi finds its ideal complement: historic architecture, a timeless landscape, and a sense of discreet elegance that amplifies her art.
In this setting, Rossella Rossi’s work is not simply displayed — it is reborn, resonant. Her “waterways” flow through the halls like invisible currents, walk along walls tinged with memory and transparency, and mirror themselves in the eyes of visitors, awakening that deep sense of wonder at the heart of her poetics.
The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni thus becomes, at once, both container and trait d’union: between past and present, between vision and myth, between matter and spirit. Its cosmopolitan vocation — an international breath of culture and beauty — finds a perfect counterpart in this place that has hosted illustrious guests, artists, and travelers of the soul. Now, it welcomes an artist who, with delicacy and depth, brings us back to our most ancient foundations: water, harmony, and dream.
UN INCONTRO TRA ARTE E MODA: LA COLLABORAZIONE CON PIERANGELO MASCIADRI
At the exhibition’s opening, her works encounter the refined world of design by Pierangelo Masciadri, fashion designer and creator of Arte e Moda in Bellagio, whose work unites art and fabric, culture and the gestures of everyday life. Masciadri, who has long adorned garments with references to masterpieces and archetypes — from the style of Roman mosaics to interpretations of Modigliani — will present some of the most precious pieces from his collections, an expression of “Where Art meets Fashion”: scarves, ties, bags, and accessories crafted from Como silk, leather, and Murano glass, all infused with artisanal mastery and a soulful essence.
In this symphony between painting and couture, Rossella’s liquid brushstrokes meet the refined textures of Masciadri silk. It is a dual sensory journey: water becomes visual perception, fabric becomes a poetic gesture. The viewer’s gaze is suspended between detail and the cosmos, between myth and modernity.
A unique opportunity to be swept away by beauty in motion and elegance that tells a story — to wear memory and behold the dream
TABLINUM CULTURAL MANAGEMENT: Founded in 2013, Tablinum Cultural Management is dedicated to promoting and enhancing art and culture on an international scale. By offering curatorial services, cultural project management, and organizing prestigious events, Tablinum creates unique connections between artists, collectors, and institutions.
Elisa Larese Moro – Art Curator
With her expertise in art history and art criticism, Elisa develops exhibitions and projects that showcase the work of artists, offering the public fresh and immersive cultural experiences.
Alessandro Cerioli – Project Manager
With a strategic and innovative approach, Alessandro coordinates cultural initiatives ranging from artist residencies to international events, integrating sustainability and creativity to enhance the impact of every project.