ANDREA ROSSI ANDREA

Visual artist (painter, sculptor, photographer, performer), musician (composer, electric bassist).
He graduated at DAMS in Bologna (Dipartimento delle Arti Visive), he studied bass guitar with Bruce Gertz (Berklee College of Music, Boston), Cameron Brown, Larry Ridley (ManhattanSchool of Music, New York). He also trained at Conservatorio of Vicenza and Padova (Double bass).
Since 1985 (the year of his debut) he has been working in the areas of contemporary art as a visual artist and electric bassist, combining these experiences with the activities (both in studio and live) in collaboration with musicians coming from different areas.
All his works, from his early ones (1970 approximately) are distinguished by the repeated use, implicit and explicit, of the antenna "like an umbrella", Ground Plane, a trans-receiver device even Made for an "ethical-aesthetical extension of the artistic work […] through inter-contextual situations of contamination and hybridization among genres, places, media, languages, etc." (Silvia Grandi). But the attitude of the artist towards his own works is, as he personally declares, "like that of an actor with his characters[…], according to tradition" showing himself, paradoxically, equidistant "from progress and tradition […]wonderful in describing the incongruities of post-modern times and particularly at ease in going through the deformed networks of the 21st century civilization" (Davide Ielmini).
"I found Andrea Rossi Andrea’s music view highly original and motivated by a serious personal close examination. His sound is well-chosen just as his timbre combinations, his composition ideas which are not banal." (Giorgio Gaslini).

In 2003 he was voted as one of the best new talents in the annual referendum magazine "Musica jazz" (Top Jazz).
His third cd "Textmeldg. Blue" has been at the top among the ten best international records of 2006 for the Top Ten by Giampiero Cane in "Alias - Il Manifesto".