Jose Romussi Chile, b. 1979

Jose Romussi (b. 1979, Chile)works with materials rooted in textiles. His practice incorporates a variety of techniques - including collage, embroidery, weaving, and patchwork, allowing the materials themselves to guide the formation of unique pictorial and textural compositions. Inspired by memory, daily life, landscapes and flowers, Romussi explores natural dyeing processes, wools and threads, geometric shapes and organic forms. His work brings together formal and conceptual elements of modernist abstraction while simultaneously challenging traditional textile conventions.

In his latest series, "Taking Memories of a Landscape" (2024)—formerly titled Pasajes, in reference to vague yet deeply present images in his life—Romussi uses mohair and alpaca wool to create woven pictorial landscapes. The natural properties of the wool shape the creative process, resulting in ethereal skies, floral motifs and environmental imagery. He reflects on how time spent engaging with materials reveals their potential, leading to new and evolving bodies of work. His hand-embroidered pieces on linen and jute (2020) feature geometric shapes and colour gradients, subtly referencing the urban environment and the organic natural world. Here, the work is characterised by a harmonious interplay of shapes and lines, achieved through textiles and various painting mediums, including acrylics on cotton canvas. Crafted with remarkable precision and attention to detail, Romussi’s pieces explore depth and form, occupying a space between illusion and abstraction.

Romussi currently lives and works between Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. Recently, he presented his new series of landscapes in "Stitched: Contemporary Embroidery", a group exhibition at Bedford Gallery, USA (April 2025), and exhibited a series of eight paintings at Salón Acme and Solo Studios, both in Mexico City (February 2025). Notable solo exhibitions include "Days, Weeks, and Months" at Mommsen 35, Berlin (July 2023), "The Embroidery Image" at Robert Mann Gallery, New York, USA (2016), ArtConnect in Berlin, Germany (2015), and "Dance" at Terminal 1 Local Project, Santiago, Chile (2011). Romussi previously worked as a landscape architect, with a degree in Landscape Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.