Morris Adjmi Architects

Olmo Gasperini comes from a lineage of artists and architects interested in landscapes and the built environment. As the son of Vera Rossi and Gianlorenzo Gasperini and the grandson of Aldo Rossi, his work builds upon but also differentiates itself from theirs. His paintings evoke the haunted landscapes of Giorgio DiChirico and make use of the recurring architectural forms and fragments often found in Aldo Rossi’s drawings and paintings. The forms in What Remains III, shown here, evoke buildings and a city but verge on abstraction. Pasted newspaper fragments pile up, suggesting remnants of human activity in a compositional void of life. While the forms are non-specific, the word “Milano,” legible in one of the newspaper fragments, pulls the composition toward the possibility of referring to an actual city rather than the idea of one.

Olmo Gasperini was born in Rome in 1997. He is currently studying at the Brera Academy in Milan. His first exhibition was the Antonia Jannone Gallery in 2020.