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| Jose Romussi in collaboration with Amanda Charchian |
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| Jose Romussi in collaboration with Amanda Charchian |
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| Jose Romussi in collaboration with Amanda Charchian |
Jose Romussi was born in Chile in 1979 but currently lives and works in Berlin. Romussi originally studied landscape design before pursuing a career creating multimedia collage works. The combination of found imagery, usually from magazines and newspapers, or the work of other artists (see the collaborative works between Romussi and Amanda Charchian) alongside colourful embroidery makes for a profoundly haunting exploration into media manipulation. The images, usually of people, are defaced and masked by floral designs or skulls which leads questions into Romussi's work as an exploration into the ephemerality of life.
In a statement about his work published on his website, Romussi states:
'My work is a constant search to express and represent my ideas. My occurring artworks are a reaction of my inspiration.
This starts with an image, that inspires me in certain way to do an embroidery that changes it into a new one. I am always searching for a new sense of interpretation for my pieces. My technique for that is using thread as the medium to merge different time spaces. I am not afraid of breaking a picture, the important thing for me is using embroidery, a technique not usually used on paper, to do it on a photograph, because this is a part of the process.
I intervene images by applying my own perception of beauty to them. Sometimes by giving them a new identity or a different aesthetic concept. It’s the chance to give this image a new emotion, a new life, a new interpretation of beauty through embroidering.'
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