Rafael Grassi

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Artist Biography: Rafael Grassi Chur, Switzerland, 1969 In his works Rafael Grassi reconciles an attachment for the pictorial matter and a taste for generating an illusion of perspective, a deceptive generating an illusion of perspective, a deceptive figuration. The figures serve as a starting starting point that gradually decomposes, freeing itself from preconceived meanings and generating a pictorial and generating a pictorial surface full of paradoxes and chromatic diversity. Formal analogies, paradoxes, and linguistic contaminations are some of the notions evoked in his work. the notions evoked in his painting. Photographic images serve as a starting point, inaugurating a a process of manipulation and successive metamorphoses that allow to preserve the trace of an image in decomposition. the trace of an image in decomposition, in which the elements, once narrative, emerge narrative elements emancipate themselves on the canvas, reconquering an autonomy freed of meaning. of meaning. --- Rafael Grassi Graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, since the 1990s he has been exhibiting his work in galleries 1990 he exhibits in galleries and art centers in France, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. He has had solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Centre d'art de Dompìerre, the Fond d'art Contemporaine de Montpellier, the d'art Contemporaine de Montluçon, the Spanish College in Paris, Palazzo Mezzabarba. Pavia or the Valérie Larbaud Cultural Center. Vichy His works can be found in the collections of Fundació Banc Sabadell, Fundació La Caixa, Olor Visual, Olor Visual, Fundació de la Caixa La Caixa, Olor Visual, Italian Ministry of Culture, FRAC of Auvergne, Collection Passimessa Clermont Ferrand, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Collection Municipale d'art Contemporaine de Vitry sur Seine, Collection d'Art Contemporaine de Vitry sur Seine, Collection d'Art Contemporaine du Canton de Zurich, Peter Nobel Collection, PRISA Collection.