Mimmo Roselli (b.1952 Rome), a renowned international artist, works with minimal line paintings and linear sculptural installations. The current exhibition at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, titled DIAGONAL, presents 24 paintings and one sculpture-installation made with transparent fishing line. Roselli's work focuses our attention on the presence of the line in space. His paintings present very delicate lines made with a distinctive technique, carefully incising on the reverse side or the surface of the canvas. Roselli's linear motifs are also translated into a large sculptural installation located towards the rear of the gallery. The installation articulates and modifies a space through the use of transparent lines as a kind of three-dimension- al drawing. The height of the lines is higher on one side than the other, moving in a diagonal direction, ascending and descending, and thereby energizing the space. Roselli describes his work as follows: "Paintings and installation speak about transparence that was always a trait very relevant in my work. My transparences, my landscapes of a world caught from a point of view high in the sky, show signs of different nature. However, in this show I worked also with more individual signs, more specific of a human activity, how dance, direction, love, friendship, solidarity."

Mimmo Roselli lives in Florence, Italy and works internationally in Europe, the United States and South America. This summer he will exhibit his work in the Venezia Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. Selected solo exhibitions include OK Harris, New York (2009); Kiscelli Muzeum, Budapest (2008); and Galleria II Ponte and National Archeology Museum, Florence, Italy (2007); La Paz Museum, Bolivia (2001) "Del Paisaje", Centro Recoleta, Buenos Aires (1999). In addition, he has participated in many important group exhibitions projects, including "Art on Lake", Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (2011); Residency at Art OMI, NY (2009); The Lodz Biennale, Poland (2004); "The Landscape of Water" Aschaffenburg Museum, Germany (2003); "Round Thesis" (permanent installation), Venezia Arsenale, Italy (2003); "Cosmogony" Bergamo Museum, Italy (2003), Heidelberg Museum, Germany (2002); "Samadhi", Chelsea Art Museum, NYC (2002); "Der Berg", Heidelberg, Germany (2002); International Biennales Invitational, "Hunsaker/ Schlesinger", Santa Monica, L.A. (1997).