Philip Rossi. A contemplative Passion.

Like many Florentine predecessors of the Renaissance, Filippo Rossi is an all-round artist who has been creating and exhibiting, writing and teaching for thirty years, continually reinventing himself within a path of singular intellectual and stylistic coherence. Like the artists of the past, then, he is endowed with astonishing energy, as evidenced by his very dense exhibition chronology, which documents his varied and incessant activity from the 1990s to the present: collective and personal exhibitions; participation in competitions at national level; collaborations with ecclesial, academic and commercial bodies, with architectural studios and publishing houses; courses, conferences, essays, videos.
All this then - still along the lines of the greats of history - without ever betraying the contemplative nature of his art. Especially since 1998 Rossi has been exhibiting, publishing and explaining his works throughout the Italian peninsula - in Milan, Rome, Florence, Turin, Novara, Vicenza, Bergamo, Parma, Bologna, Trento, Bolzano, Caltanissetta, Monreale - and is very present abroad: in Romania, Germany, Switzerland, France, Morocco, the United States and China.
In the summer of 2019 he had meetings in Beijing and Shenzhen with directors of public, university and commercial museums interested in holding a personal exhibition of his in multiple locations the following year: a project, unfortunately postponed by the COVID 19 pandemic but resumed in this 'year. Even in Korea there is currently interest in an exhibition of his in Seoul, which is still being defined.

Rossi has always been open to new experiences, and a particular stimulus was the invitation to do an internship at the Derix Glasstudios in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2011, learning to translate his paintings into stained glass, Filippo understood the almost unlimited flexibility of his own style , moving on (a few years later) to producing jewelery and objects with a technique similar to enamel. He then carried out a similar 'translation' into textile form, creating sacred vestments in collaboration with the important Bergamo company Atelier Sirio in 2018. In this overview, Rossi's skills as an art historian as well as an artist should also be remembered - or, better , as a historian and artist.
In recent years his experimentation with varying the surfaces of paintings in terms of plasticity has led him to create real sculptures for the line of home furnishing works in collaboration with architects and designers which led him to create his brand Magnifice Filippo Rossi, a true Art Factory at the service of aesthetic taste and the beauty of everyday life.

Prof. Timothy Verdon
Director of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo of Florence