Rafael Grassi

Rafael Grassi - Skinny Bird

Biografía del Artista: Rafael Grassi Chur, Switzerland, 1969 In his works Rafael Grassi reconciles an attachment to pictorial matter and a taste for create an illusion of perspective, a deceitful figuration. The figures serve as starting point that is decomposing, freeing itself from preconceived meanings and generating a pictorial surface full of paradoxes and chromatic diversity. Formal analogies, paradoxes, and linguistic contaminations constitute some of the notions evoked in his painting. The photographic images serve as a point of reference departure, inaugurating a process of manipulation and successive metamorphoses that allow preserve the trace of a decomposing image, in which the elements Once narrative, they emancipate themselves on the canvas, reconquering a liberated autonomy of significance. --- Rafael Grassi Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, since the years 1990 exhibits in galleries and art centers in France, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. He has made solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Centre d'art de Dompìerre, the Fond d'art Contemporaine de Montluçon, the College of Spain in Paris, Palazzo Mezzabarba. Pavia or the Valérie Larbaud Cultural Center. Vichy His works can be found in the collections of the Banc Sabadell Foundation, the La Caixa, Visual Smell, Italian Ministry of Culture, FRAC de Auvergne, Collection Passimessa Clermont Ferrand, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Collection Municipale Contemporary Art Collection of Vitry sur Seine, Collection of Contemporary Art of the Canton of Zurich, Peter Nobel Collection, PRISA Collection.