Raul Casassola

Raul CASASSOLA - The skin language, 1.

Técnica: Mixed, on high -gramage Nepal cotton paper. URBAN ART / STREET ART.

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.

From the triptych that marks the closing of the collection of the same name. From the “Stigmata” collection, which consists of 8 works, 5 works made in a workshop on kraft paper, left to their fate on the street on advertising paper, and recovered for exhibition during @fig_bilbao 2021 and 3 live painting works during the fair. The works were conceived as an urban intervention, applied on layers of advertising paper that, after a period of living with the harshness of the city, were torn off and prepared for exhibition at the Fig Bilbao Fair. Conceptually, they are a way of understanding the collectivity of a space and time, in the city of the 21st century. The city left its mark on the work, rain, pollution, attempts at destruction. In short, they capture the soul of this space-time, they are a memory and an analysis of the urbanity that destroys us and defines us in a fortuitous way and that almost always leaves us breathless.