Karlo, 2017, David Rosetzky
Gelatin silver print, 59cm x 48cm
Provenance: Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
Melbourne visual artist, David Rosetzky works across the digital mediums of photography, video and installations. He is particularly noted for his emotionally evocative photographs in black and white. Rosetzky’s elegantly restrained portraits utilise the familiar language of advertising and cinema. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, and he was awarded the inaugural Anne Landa Art Award for Moving Image and New Media Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2005. The National Portrait Gallery commissioned Rosetzky to produce a digital video portrait of Cate Blanchett to commemorate the opening of their new gallery space (1).
David Rosetzky’s 2017 series of black and white photographic portraits present their young subjects in an unexpected manner. He layers and combines imagery both in front of and behind the subjects to explore themes of identity, memory and self; a focus that mirrors our age of individualism and self-interest (2).