Raffaele De Rosa - From Platonov's New Life Village

The subject of the equestrian monument, or the man on horseback, has very ancient origins. It dates back to the classical world, the earliest example of which is the "Rampin Knight," and it had a fundamental political importance for Roman art. Generally, these are sculptures in the round, but there are also cases where this subject appears on painted supports. The theme of the man on horseback has pervaded the entire history of art, not only Western art, and has become a subject of research for contemporary artists such as Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, and Aligi Sassu.

Raffaele De Rosa's entire artistic output is aimed at creating a mythical, fairy-tale Middle Ages populated by magical knights. The artist pours his explosive imagination into his works, which finds expression in the fantastical inventions of highly original robes, vestments, and armor. This quest for a fairy-tale dimension is also expressed formally with an extremely elegant graphic line and the exploration of precious, brilliant color palettes. The formal synthesis of the subjects serves to convey a powerful sense of the archaic, further fueled by an anti-naturalistic conception of space.

Raffaele De Rosa was born in Podenzana in 1940. He first moved to Naples, then to La Spezia and Livorno, where he completed his artistic training. He opened a studio in Florence in 1963 and his career was already underway. In 1975, he began a fruitful collaboration with Graphis Art, which allowed him to gain recognition abroad. He has exhibited his work throughout Europe, the USA, and Israel. In the 1980s, he exhibited in Copenhagen at the Italian Cultural Institute and at the Art Expo in New York. In 1984, he held a show in Jerusalem and in 1985, at the Maison de l'UNESCO in Paris.

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