AGOSTINO ROCCO

Agostino Rocco was born in 1971 in Padua, the city where he still lives and works. Self-taught, Rocco has devoted himself to the study of art history and the work of certain Old Masters who have become a constant and vital source of inspiration: the Tuscan and Flemish artists of the 15th century, and the French and Dutch painters of the 17th century.

Rocco’s technically dazzling creations are in the portrait tradition, imbued with historical atmosphere and sobriety. On closer inspection, however, they reveal a subversive streak of humour and unexpected anachronisms that serve to disrupt our assumptions while remaining gorgeously seductive. Rocco thus manages to glide across two worlds, proposing classic images with a modern twist.