Raul CASASSOLA

Raul CASASSOLA - Stigmata #1.

Technique: Mixed media, on heavyweight Nepal cotton paper. Urban Art / Street Art.

Artist Biography: Casassola "Raúl Muñoz", was born in 1982 in Móstoles, in the outskirts of Madrid. From an early age he was attracted by the countercultural environment that developed in working class neighborhoods during the 80's and 90's and especially by urban movements such as graffiti or punk music. In the artist's own words: "I've been doing art for as long as I can remember, I'm interested in everything that has to do with the human odyssey, I embrace with equal curiosity the excessive passions of first loves, as the implicit tragedy of the soup kitchens". Since then he has participated in numerous group exhibitions and urban art projects that have led him to visit numerous countries where his work is increasingly appreciated.

 

From the triptych that closes the collection of the same name. From the collection "Stigmata" which consists of 8 works, 5 works made in workshop on kraft paper, left to their fate in 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 coexistence with the rawness of the city, were torn off and prepared for their exhibition at the Fig Bilbao Fair. Conceptually, they are a way of understanding the collectivity of a space and a 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 and defines us in a fortuitous way and that almost always leaves us breathless.