Maxime Rossi

Maxime Rossi creates conceptually-driven works that take social and cultural history as their subject. In small sculptures, prints, and other handmade multiples, Rossi often uses natural processes such as sunlight-exposed photographic images or wind-blown markers to produce randomized streams of information. He makes the complicated but mundane phenomena of everyday life tangible and visible, connecting them with the lived experience of culture. In TURE SPIRIT (ASPIRIN), a set of sculptures made in 2002, the effervescent tablets dissolving in water are commemorated. Rossi dropped hot bronze into the bubbling solution as the aspirin was foaming, forming the metal into froth-shaped clumps. The work immortalizes the soothing, airy bubbles as dense, heavy, polished metal blobs.