Marco Grassi
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Born in 1987, Marco Grassi lives and works as a painter in Italy. Since early childhood, Marco grew up surrounded by the old masters’ paintings and Chinese pottery gathered through the years by his grandfather, a small collector from Northern Italy. Despite having a strong fascination with fine arts from the very beginning of his life, he chose to follow his passion and turn it into a career during his university studies.
From an early stage in his art career, Marco studied the painting techniques of many of the old masters. Over time, he modified and reinterpreted them in new ways to create his unique personal style and contemporary finish. Marco also employs “sfumato”, a technique mastered during the Renaissance by Italian paintings, in a new way with soft transitions between each part of the painting. This achieves very delicate and natural colour passages.
Marco is particularly interested in the changes within a person’s body and personality. This is why he often portrays people in a moment of metamorphosis. The bodies of the characters become allegories, figurative expressions of various concepts and above all, the relationship and fragile balance between humans and Nature. Those continuous transformations, human figures evolving into unanimated matter, the contamination of Nature, as well as the resilience of human beings, are the main focus of this artistic research. In this way, Marco’s paintings slip away from the boundaries of the typical definition of hyperrealism.
