Marco Grassi

Marco Grassi has spent the last decade creating works with the aim of staying true to his figurative style and avoiding the vagaries of fashion and trend. His artistic language and the themes he chooses highlight his unchanging vision and complex sensibility, although his representations of the fashionable female figure, the use of particular combinations of colors and lacquers, and series that present themes with minimal variation have led him to to be mislabelled as a Pop artist. Although Grassi chooses delicate and attractive subjects, these female figures are also energetic and determined. The depiction of him in bright, trendy colors echoes the Pop Art genre, but the themes themselves are off-limits to that art category. In his more recent works, Grassi has abandoned the element that was once his signature style and technique: the decisive brushstrokes that delineated his anatomical forms and gave a sense of stability to the entire figure, and contrasted with striking colors mixed with spatula and drips. to break them down and make them more subtle. His recent themes show less certainty, which once allowed the figures to fully integrate with the complex fabric of colors. Today, the context in which they are represented is more decisive and reflects the facial expressions and the intense silence of the subjects, creating a complicity with the observer.