I'm Rossano Caldaroni, born in 1965.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  I began to explore the world of applied arts, sometimes improperly called "minor", as I was attracted by the endless research, tests and experiments that works of this type involve, to verify the possibility of obtaining a convincing expressive result.

Seduced by the glazed and brilliant colors of the glass paste, i approached the mosaic technique, specifically that obtained through the use of minute tiles, obtained through the so-called "enamel spinning".

It is a technique that gives the mosaicist the possibility of obtaining almost all the shades of the spectrum of colors visible to the human eye, through the combination, by fusion at about 850 degrees, of glazes of different colors, called madretinte. The glazes, made malleable by the heat produced by the flame of a burner, are manipulated by the mosaic artist to create "sticks", then sectioned into tiles, with the desired geometric shape and size, using special tools.

I embraced this expressive technique because i imagined that it would give me the possibility to perform figurative representations as descriptive as possible, relying on the minute dimensions of the tiles, and on the possibility of “dirtying” them through a multitude of tones of different colors.

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While approaching the mosaic technique, I nevertheless tried to move away from the traditional historical canons of mosaic linked to the lack of volume, with the consequent flattening of the representations, to arrive at a language linked to the rendering of truth, understood as an external imitation of nature, read in its three-dimensionality.

Despite having a two-dimensional surface, from the beginning i wanted to pay attention to the ability to recreate a relief effect that does not actually exist.

I tried to achieve the typical illusion of three-dimensionality, not only by respecting the dimensional and spatial relationships between the various figures or objects represented, and between them and the background, but above all through insistent games of overlapping of different color tones.

My works are characterized by an assiduous search for chromatic contrasts obtained by scientifically mixing different pantones during the fusion phase, achieving pictorial effects with tesserae that take on the characteristic of transforming themselves into touches of enamel brushstrokes.

The combination of a multitude of minute tiles, characterized by permanently changing color tones, simulates the idea of ​​movement more easily, producing a curiously realistic effect. Thus everything is transformed into a rhythmic motif, through an assiduous alternation of obsessive chromatic games, which creates a sense of coloristic excitement and accentuated dynamism.
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The choice i made on the size and geometric shape of the tiles is suggested to me by what i want to represent. The main concern always remains that of effectively simulating reality, through the maximum exploitation of the yield that this mosaic technique can offer. I define myself as self-taught, having not had an academic background; once I briefly learned the rudiments of the material from a good craftsman, I preferred to follow my own personal path, giving up absorbing the style of others.

The choice of subjects on which i worked, as well as from personal taste, stems from my personal desire to try his hand at different themes, focusing on works that could have returned a happy outcome if translated by means of this decorative technique.

Although characterized by the same compositional style, these artifacts present the effort, not in vain, of having been able to adapt from time to time to the different interpretative needs that each individual subject has requested.