GIANGIACOMO ROSSETTI – CABBAGE FIELD
2024-03-18Taking its title from an 1873 Camille Pissarro painting once seen as ‘vulgar’ for foregrounding the lowly cabbage plant, Cabbage Field imbues moments of everyday urban life with an auratic stillness.
While trying to abandon any metaphysical subject and adhere to the realist tradition—by portraying ordinary scenes without mediation—Rossetti was nevertheless led astray. His attempts at realist representation here are disrupted by mundane fabrications. The characters that populate his paintings, those dear to him, gaze past one another, isolated despite their physical proximity. The result is a mirror-like world where intentions are shaped by impulse and desire.
Opposite – The Connoisseur, 2024
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024
Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York
