Chris Rocchegiani

Chris Rocchegiani (Jesi (AN), 1977), lives and works in Jesi.

She received a diploma in fine arts and a degree in Graphic Design from ISIA in Urbino. She is a painter and lecturer in Basic Design at the University of Ascoli Piceno UNICAM – Department of Design and Architecture. Together with Roberto Montani, she is co-founder of CH RO MO, a research duo on visual languages of design and art, specializing in editorial design. Founder of Pensiero Manifesto, a creative collective of artists, graphic designers and illustrators, who use the poster as a tool of public utility, cultivating practices of listening and giving back to the community. In the field of design, her projects have been awarded at the European Design Awards; at the Aiap Women Design Awards; by the ADI, accessing the short list for the award of the Compasso d’Oro; by the Fondazione Cariplo for Cultural Innovation. Painting is the heart of her research, the place and language where confrontation takes place in depth and without mediation. Painting is a necessity for her. Among the most recent exhibitions in his artistic career: 2024 Il mio Telaio, la tua Laura, Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan; 2023 Pittura italiana oggi, Triennale Milano, Milan; 2022 Linea 1201, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila; 2022 Jumelles culturelles, Château de Mayenne, Mayenne, FR; 2021 Una ripetizione, Projecktraum 145, Berlin, BR; 2020 I know You know that you know, Galleria Yudikone, Brescia; 2020 Total Recall, Galleria Bianconi, Milan; 2019 Libere Tutte, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese; 2019 Diagrammi, Cripta747, Turin.

STATEMENT

Through the use of different styles and executive approaches, Chris Rocchegiani explores the compositional aspects emerging from the overlapping of sign and color. His paintings are characterized by the coexistence of heterogeneous languages: more or less recognizable figurative elements mingle with gestural and synthetic parts, dictated by the predominance of sign and action, and undefined areas of color, with a more lyrical and evocative character. His language is multiple and nonlinear; it retrocedes and advances, lends itself to visual experience in moments of greater or lesser clarity, making error, uncertainty and contradiction the necessary attributes of a pictorial experience understood as an intimate exercise of freedom. Absence, the experience outside the body, the transformation of matter and the transcending of physical limits are some of the themes at the center of his artistic research. This idea of transition and change is accentuated by a recurring tension within her paintings between the female and male figure, human and animal, between the earthly life and the out-of-body dimension. In her works, opposites are amalgamated, genders and species blur; death becomes a passage that transforms the condition of being, while the concept of the wild is symbolic of the ancestral bond between man and nature. Always interested in the transcendental and spiritual nature of painting, Rocchegiani pushes “beyond” the materiality of the earthly experience from which it originates: her paintings suggest broader possibilities of life, breaking the conventionality of existence in which we confine ourselves when we fail to go beyond the human.