Exhibition

GIANGIACOMO ROSSETTI
Cabbage Field

8th Floor

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
The Connoisseur, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 36 x 48 inches (91 x 122 cm)
Frame: 41 x 53 x 2 1/8 inches (104 x 135 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Purple cabbage, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 39 1/3 x 27 3/8 inches (100 x 70 cm)
Frame: 44 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches (113 x 83 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Green cabbage, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 39 1/2 x 27 7/8 inches (100 x 71 cm)
Frame: 44 1/2 x 32 5/8 x 2 inches (113 x 83 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Purple cabbage, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 39 1/3 x 27 3/8 inches (100 x 70 cm)
Frame: 44 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches (113 x 83 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Green cabbage, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 39 1/2 x 27 7/8 inches (100 x 71 cm)
Frame: 44 1/2 x 32 5/8 x 2 inches (113 x 83 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Garden of Self, 2024
Oil on linen, artist frame
Artwork: 20 1/16 x 24 1/16 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Frame: 21 x 25 x 1 3/4 inches (53 x 64 x 4 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Taking 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.

Rossetti’s pursuit of representation lies not in the veracity of his painting, but in the verity of its subject. Whether leather shoes, common vegetables, or a raw piece of meat, ordinary marks of realism become signs themselves; some hazardous, unnerving. This mimesis is the simulation of inexpressible impulses, and not a faithful depiction of the visible world. The works on view endure as solecisms—painterly gestures that unravel their conceptual premise. Despite its semblance of everyday realism, Cabbage Field exposes the ongoing tension between a present rife with disenchantment and, by implicating the artist’s contemporaries, the earnest and winding paths of friendship.

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Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Golden spectacles, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (70 x 50 cm)
Frame: 31 7/8 x 23 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches (81 x 61 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Headache Department, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 49 1/2 x 38 x 1 3/8 inches (126 x 97 x 4 cm)
Frame: 54 5/8 x 43 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches (139 x 110 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Golden spectacles, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (70 x 50 cm)
Frame: 31 7/8 x 23 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches (81 x 61 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Headache Department, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 49 1/2 x 38 x 1 3/8 inches (126 x 97 x 4 cm)
Frame: 54 5/8 x 43 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches (139 x 110 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Nansen Kills a Cat, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 26 x 35 1/2 inches (66 x 90 cm)
Frame: 31 1/4 x 40 3/4 x 2 inches (79 x 104 x 5 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Guard, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 12 x 9 inches (31 x 23 cm)
Frame: 18 1/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches (46 x 38 x 4 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Summer here, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 14 x 18 inches (36 x 46 cm)
Frame: 14 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches (38 x 48 x 4 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Still life with mannequin head, 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 18 x 14 inches (46 x 36 cm)
Frame: 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches (48 x 38 x 4 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
Uriel (What was the right answer to the question), 2024
Oil on wood panel, artist frame
Artwork: 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (70 x 50 cm)
Frame: 32 1/4 x 24 x 2 1/4 inches (82 x 61 x 6 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti, Installation view, Cabbage Field, Greene Naftali, New York, 2024

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2023
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2022
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2023
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2023
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2022
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2023
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

Giangiacomo Rossetti
NYC Purple, 2024
Monotype on Rives BFK paper
Printed by 10 Grand Press
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29 x 22 cm)
Frame: 22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (58 x 41 cm)

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