Raul Casassola

Raul CASASSOLA - Coronation 2.

Técnica: Mixed, acrylic techniques and glued paper on advertising posters.

Biografía del Artista: Casassola “Raúl Muñoz” was born in 1982 in Móstoles, on the outskirts of Madrid. From a very young age he was attracted by the countercultural atmosphere that developed in working-class neighbourhoods during the 80s and 90s and especially by urban movements such as graffiti or punk music. In the artist’s words: “I have been making art for as long as I can remember, I am interested in everything that has to do with the human odyssey, I embrace with equal curiosity the excessive passions of first loves, as well as the implicit tragedy of soup kitchens.” Since then he has participated in numerous collective exhibitions and urban art projects that have led him to visit numerous countries where his work is increasingly appreciated.

CASASSOLA. Wurth Foundation Award, Muros Tabacalera, CEART, national and international murals. https://ddrartgallery.com/collections/raul-casassola Belonging to the collection of four works that represent the final result of the artist's first solo exhibition at the CEART museum in Fuenlabrada. The works were conceived as an urban intervention, applied on layers of advertising paper that, after three weeks of living with the city, were torn off and exhibited in the museum. Conceptually, they are a way of understanding the collectivity of a space and a time, Madrid in 2016. The city left its mark on the work, rain, pollution, attempts at destruction. In short, they capture the soul of this space and time, they are a memory and an analysis of this Madrid that destroys us and defines us in a fortuitous way and that almost always leaves us breathless. Note: The process of working with glued paper generates imperfections on the edges of the work, which is delivered with the random effect of the roughness of the paper, unique and unrepeatable.