HOFA Gallery Launches Acclaimed Artist Marco Grassi’s Exhibition

Italian Marco Grassi creates figurative portraits that combine realistic and abstract elements. Since the beginnings of his career, Grassi developed a very personal style which praises the identity of the female subject in the specific moment in which they are painted. With his intense female portraits, Grassi searches to captivate the viewer, by creating a silent dialogue between the subject and the audience.
In his forthcoming exhibition Grassi has abandoned the element that was once his trademark style and technique: the decisive strokes which outlined his anatomic forms and lent a sense of stability to the whole of the figure, and contrasted with bold colours, blended with a spatula, and drippings to break them down and make them more subtle. His recent subjects display less certainty, which once allowed the figures to integrate themselves fully with the complex weave of colours. The background against which they are represented is more decisive and reflects the subjects’ facial expressions and intense silence, creating a complicity with the observer.
Grassi says about the exhibition, “Central to my forthcoming exhibition is the expressiveness of the body and my determination to portray to our younger generations a truthful and realistic picture of themselves. An image that goes deeper than cultural standards and opinions of the media and discovers the inner beauty that lies beneath the surface in all human beings.”
Marco Grassi’s works have been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, and international fairs such as Art Basel, Art Miami, SCOPE Basel and the Moscow Art Fair. He was also selected to exhibit at the opening of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.