Raul CASASSOLA

Raul CASASSOLA - Coronation 2.

Technique: Mixed media, acrylic and paper glued on advertising posters.

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.

 

CASASSOLA. Wurth Foundation Award, Tabacalera Walls, CEART, national and international murals. https://ddrartgallery.com/collections/raul-casassola Belonging to the collection of four works that are the final result of the first solo exhibition of the artist in the CEART museum in Fuenlabrada. The works were conceived as an urban intervention, applied on layers of advertising paper that after three weeks of coexistence 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-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.