Art meets Treville – Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi at Treville Positano – July 28th 2021
Works by Marco Grassi will be the second protagonist of Art meets Treville at the Treville in Positano. The event is scheduled for July 28 in collaboration with the Liquid art system.
Marco Grassi was born in Milan in 1966 and has established himself in the international art world with an incredible growth and renewal of his pictorial language.
The artist has always been fascinated by the sensitivity and sensuality of the portrait, the power and strength of the eyes, and dedicated himself to the representation of feminine subjects: delicate, attractive, energetic, and resolute.
His technique, too often called pop, reveals much more than that. The use of gold leaf or silver leaf certainly gives the paintings an extremely captivating, bewitching aspect, drawing all the attention to itself. However, his technique, which has evolved over the years, speaks of violent spatula strokes, indefinite contours, strong colors, and wonderful contrasts.
In his paintings, the absence of background focuses the attention on the subject, thus accentuating the expressive power of the gaze and the complexity of the character, almost trying to show its soul.
Surrounded by works, all on aluminum and these incredibly dazzled, the Art meets Treville aperitif is the opportunity to spend an evening dedicated to art in a location where everything can shine.
His most iconic paintings are close-up portraits of young women, often painted on a gold background, almost as if they were Byzantine icons, but subjected to the acceleration of the contemporary. A painting, that of Marco Grassi, of great intensity that rivals that of Jenny Saville: the color is spread with frenzy and overpowers the drawing, overflows from it; the figures, caught in the moment of disappearing behind scratches and spatula strokes, take on a strong emotional charge, as if the point of arrival were complete abstraction.
