Paul Rousso

Paul Rousso - DONALD DUCK SEPTERMER 1949 Vol. 9

Técnica: Mixed technique on hand modeling polystyrene

Biografía del Artista: Paul Rousso is an American artist who was born in North Carolina in 1958 and trained at Ohio's Cleveland Institute of Art and the California College of the Arts in 1981. His work is based on creating volumes from a flat surface, what he calls "Flat Depth", using complex artistic techniques including painting, printing, digital manipulation, digital printing and hand modeling with heat, to turn two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional objects. Rousso takes pop culture and its inherent contradictory sensibilities, such as money, candy wrappers or magazine pages, and turns them into large-format works of art. He seeks satire by inflating their size to unusual dimensions, creating a crumpled three-dimensional appearance of these objects. Rousso's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, fairs and art centres in the United States and Europe, and he has been commissioned by institutions and public authorities to create large-scale pieces in public spaces. Before dedicating himself full-time to his artistic career, Rousso worked in advertising and set design, and was a set painter for Warner Brothers films. He subsequently worked as an art director for companies in the world of fashion and luxury, such as Revlon, Clairol, Condé Nast and Bloomingdale's. Rousso's work is an extension of the advertising print of design and media, coinciding with many of the assumptions of American Pop Art of the 1960s, which made objects of consumer society into icons of modern life. With his "Flat Depth" technique, Rousso seeks to subvert and transform everyday objects into something new and surprising. Rousso's work can be found in numerous private collections in North America, Europe and the Middle East, as well as in numerous public projects throughout the United States.