Price: €320
Artist is based in: Estonia
Francesco Rosso / Red Sherberth is an animation artist whose work focuses on everyday life and the fleeting moments that reveal themselves as sacred. He experiments with different techniques, combining gouache and oil painting, photographs he develops himself, and digital processing. Alongside making animations, he illustrates poems and music releases. He is a member of the Estonian Artists’ Union and the Estonian Animation Union.
Rosso completed his MA in Animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2014. He earned a BA in Visual and Performing Arts from IUAV in Venice in 2010 and a BA in Fine Arts from Hacettepe University in Ankara in 2008.
His filmography includes Four Stones (2021), a drawn animation produced at Eesti Joonisfilm, and Destined to be Dead(2018), which combines photographic and drawn animation and won first place at the Etherea Art Prize in Genoa in 2021. Fok Nabo Distorio (2014), made at the Estonian Academy of Arts, won Best Debut Film at Primanima in 2015 and received an honourable mention at Anifilm that same year for non-narrative, experimental and boundary forms of animation. Black Seed (2014), an oil-on-glass animation, won Best Baltic Animation at the 2ANNAS International Film Festival in Riga.
Rosso’s solo exhibitions include Peegeldus at EKA Gallery in Tallinn (2013) and Groundzero in Campagnola di Brugine (2010). He has taken part in group exhibitions in Genoa, Moscow, Berlin, Pärnu, Tallinn, Helsinki and Venice. His work has appeared in the collections Animazioni Vol. 6 (2019) and Animazioni Vol. 4 (2016), and in the literary magazine Värske Rõhk (2014).
