Jose romussi

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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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Artist Jose Romussi's embroidered photos of dancers turns vintage postcards of ballerinas into a new piece of art, adding a unique and colorful dimension.

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…

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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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Jose Romussi is a Chilean artist who currently lives and works in Berlin. The beautiful women you see here are part from his Dance series, in which he gives famous ballerinas a playful, fresh new look with colorful embroidery. On his website you will find more series that are definitely worth a glimpse. cargocollective.com/joseromussi [Back […]

16 x 11", Embroidery over fine art print, $1600