Marco Grassi

Was born in Milan in 1966. He studied at the Liceo Artistico B. Luini in Canuto and graduated with a degree in architecture in Milan. Today he lives and works in Mariano Comense.

In-between Mystery and Definition.

presents a non-didactic portal for us to participate in his creations. Dedicated to figurative painting, he has no desire to follow trends: he is too busy creating his own path to sublimity.


His paintings are framed in series

which feel the specificity of the moment in which they are painted. They speak quietly of Grassi’s mood, his time, story, and out look of the world.

The Subject and the scene...

moments which can be traced back to the situations experienced by each viewer. Subject and viewer meet and play the game of their glance


The human form is at the center of Marco Grassi’s artistic practice. Renown for his seductive depictions of women, Marco Grassi’s models are at once delicate and determined. His portraits, suffused with vibrant colours, carry a complex sensibility. Devoting himself to portraiture, Marco Grassi succeeds in challenging the typical standards of this genre through abstract colourplay and directional composition.

The artist forgoes preparatory sketches, choosing to apply his pigments directly on the canvas with a palette knife. In doing so, Marco Grassi allows the medium to define itself, honoring its texture and character. In his recent works, backgrounds tend to gradually integrate themselves with the subject, softly blending the frenetic edges created by the palette knife. Marco Grassi’s style is defined by his layered work, each strata of colour holding a unique energy and significance. The onlooker is invited to penetrate these layers to discover the emotional complexity of the artist’s subjects. His female nudes are provocative and inviting, distinguishing themselves from traditional figure studies.

BIOGRAPHY

Marco Grassi was born in Milan in 1966. He studied at the Liceo Artistico B. Luini in Canuto and graduated with a degree in architecture in Milan. Today he lives and works in Mariano Comense.

For the past ten years Grassi has been faithful to the figurative style of his work, never allowing this to become an object of fashion or satisfying only a momentary taste. His language and subjects have remained constant and connected to his sense of vision and to the taste of his complex sensitivity. He depicts the fashionable female figure, dynamic color combinations, and a use of lacquering. Subjects have unjustly labeled him a contemporary Pop artist, but where Pop today stands for glamour – all sequins and shine, the dimensions of Grassi’s work extend beyond the fashionable.

Grassi’s subjects are delicate and attractive, but also energetic and resolute with constant attention to the form, subject, and his color techniques.

His paintings are framed in series – though not in accordance to the canonical sense of this term – which feel the specificity of the moment in which they are painted. They speak quietly of Grassi’s mood, his time, story, and out look of the world.

Grassi’s subjects are masked in some way, actors and figures, caught in the intense foreground, they tell of events starting from those encrypted by their creator, marked with their expressions, moments which can be traced back to the situations experienced by each viewer. Subject and viewer meet and play the game of their glances.

Regarding the technique, a relevant novelty can be observed. Grassi renounces an element which up until now was a decisive part of the architecture of every part of his work. In his most recent works we witness a complete absence of design: the sure and confident stroke with which he traced outer anatomic lines, showing stability in the whole of the figure, compared to a choice of bold colors which transforms and breaks down under the effect of the spatula and drippings, is less obvious. The figure loses the factor of certainty and sureness, a base which permits it to integrate itself completely in the complex weave of color, now depicted in a more decisive background and efficiently connected to the expression of faces and the intensity of their silence.

CURRICULUM VITAE | MARCO GRASSI

Marco Grassi was born in Milan, Italy in 1966

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 MAMA RAISED ME RIGHT
HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) London, UK

FOCUS
Galerie LeRoyer, Montréal, Canada

2019 DON’T JUST BE A PRETTY FACE
HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) London, UK

2018 KEEP ROCKIN’ SUPERSTAR Galerie LeRoyer, Montréal, Canada

WONDERLAND
Galleria Ca’ d’oro, New York, USA

MiXX project + atelier

2016 SUPERGOLDEN Ransom Art, London, UK

SUPERGOLDEN
Liquid Art System, Capri, Italy

2015 GOLD EXPERIENCE
Aspen Art Gallery, Aspen, USA

SUPERKIDS
Galerie LeRoyer, Montréal, Canada

CITY GIRLS
Niche Space, Los Angeles, USA

2014 GOLD
Franco Senesi Fine Art, curated by Marco Izzolino Royalty, Galleria Modì, Mendrisio, Italy

GOLDGIRLS
Komfort Gallery, Kazan, Russia

Helen Gallery, Ul’janovsk, Russia

2013 ICON KIDS
Stella Mccartney Space, Milan, Italy & New York, USA

ICONS
Gallery Vavilon, Samara, Russia

Presenze Loft Gallery, Corigliano Calabro, Italy GOLDENAMERICA, WFCUSA, Phoenix, USA

2013 SUPERGOLDENICONS, St Petersberg, USA THE GOLD EXPERIENCE

White Room, Capri, Italy

2012 COLOUR IN RETROSPECT Niche Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

OUR LADY
Franco Senesi Art Gallery, Positano, Italy

2011 YOUNGUYS
3401 Gallery, Miami, USA

THIRTEEN
curated by Igor Zanti, LEO’S Gallery, Lugano, Italy

THIRTEEN
curated by Igor Zanti, LEO’S Gallery, Monza, Italy

SUPERHEROES
Jamel International, Perth, Australia

WHY DONT YOU TAKE ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE OF MY HEART?
MA11, Atlanta, USA

2010 King’s Road Gallery, London, UK BE MY PRINCESS AGAIN

Gallery White Provision, Atlanta, USA

2009 GLAMOUR GRAMA T35, Milan, Italy

GLAMOUR GRAMA MA09, Atlanta, USA

2008 GIRLS SAVE THE PINK
Galleria Nuovospazio, Piancenza, Italy

GIRLS SAVE THE PINK
curated by Stefano Castelli, Villa Sartirana, Giussano, Milan

2007 PINK VELVET
curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Novato Arte Contemporanea, Fano, Italy

2006 I LOVE ROMA

Galleria Laura Rossi International, Rome, Italy

SMALL
curated by Marta Casati, Galleria Magrorocca, Milan, Italy

2005 LOVE ME TENDER
curated by di Paola Noè, Chiesa di S. Pietro in Atrio, Come

2003 SELF-SERVICE
cuarted by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Galleria Magrorocca, Milan, Italy

2002 AMSTE, Lissone, Italy 2001 GLOBALISLAMIZZIONE

Studio Gariboldi, Milan, Italy

2000 METROPOLITANI 2000
curated by Luca Beatrice, Studio Gariboldi, Milan, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 ART MIAMI AND CONTEXT MIAMI

Virtual exhibition, Galerie LeRoyer, Canada

MODEL UNIT AT MONAD TERRACE BY JEAN NOUVEL IN MIAMI BEACH
Galleria Ca’ d’oro, Miami Beach USA

2019 MARCO GRASSI AND CAROL KURTH: ALL I THINK ABOUT IS YOU

Galleria Ca’ d’oro, New York, USA

THE LOCAL ELEMENT
MiXX projects + atelier, Telluride, USA

REVERY
MiXX projects + atelier, Telluride, USA

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
MiXX projects + atelier, Telluride, USA

THE SALON
MiXX projects + atelier, Telluride, USA

2018 GARDEN OF EDEN
MiXX projects + atelier, Telluride, USA

THE EDIT

HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONT’D) 2017 FORZA

Galerie LeRoyer, Canada THE GOLD EXPERIENCE

Galleria Ca’ d’oro, New York, USA

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MASTERS: NEW AQUISITIONS
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA

2015 RITRATTI
Galleria Doppia V, Lugano curated by Emma Gravagnuolo

2013 SYSTEM
Bellano, curated by Martina Corbetta

2011 54a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Venice

STORYBOARD
BonelliLab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova, Italy

BRUTTA? NO SEMPLICEMENTE UNICA!
Teatro Filodrammatici Milano, curated by Diego Della Palna and Chiara Argentieri, Milan, Italy

FISIONOMIA DI UNA BELLEZZA IMPROPRIA Lo Gallery, Corigliano Calabro, Itay

2010 ATTENTION! BORDER CROSSING Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM

LORO CIUFFIENNA
Museo Venturino Venturi, Italy

2009 LOVE NEST Revel, Milano, Italy

UNDERCOVER
Galleria Wannabee, Milano, Italy

2008 CONTEMPORARY Superstudio, Milano, Italy

Convivio, Milan, Italy

2007 GIMME FIVE
curated by Ivan Quaroni, Galleria Novato, Fano, Italy

FILM ROUGE
curated by Chiara Argentieri, Galleria Grafique, Bologna

ART FAIRS


2020 CONTEXT Art Miami, HOFA Gallery, London, UK

ART MIAMI, Galerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada ART MIAMI, Contessa Gallery, Miami, USA

ART MIAMI, Liquid Art System, Italy
ART CENTRAL, Liquid Art System, Italy
ART WYNWOOD, HOFA Gallery, London, UK LA ART SHOW, HOFA Gallery, London, UK

2019 Art Aspen, ASPEN, USA

2019 CONTEXT Art Miami,
(HOFA Gallery, London), MIAMI, USA

LA ART SHOW
(HOFA Gallery, London) Los Angeles, USA

PALM BEACH MODERN + CONTEMPORARY (Galleria Ca’ d’Oro) Palm Beach, USA

2018 ART PALM BEACH
(Galleria Ca’ d’Oro) Palm Beach, USA

PALM BEACH MODERN + CONTEMPORARY (Galleria Ca’ d’Oro) Palm Beach, USA

CONTEXT Art Miami
(Liquid Art System) Miami, USA

2017 MARKET ART + DESIGN (Galleria Ca’ d’Oro) LONDON ART FAIR, London, UK
SCOPE New York, USA

2016 ART MIAMI, New York and Miami, USA SCOPE New York and Miami, USA CONTEXT Miami, USA

2015 ART MIAMI
SCOPE New York, USA

2013 ART MIAMI Miami, USA
ART MOSCOW Moscow, Russia SCOPE New York, USA

2012 ARTSHOW New York, USA
ARTSHOW Matalon Foundation, Milan, Italy

PUBLICATIONS


2015 IDOL Article “Marco Grassi and his ‘Gold Experience’” by

Oliver Korinek, July 2015

Arte a un Click Article “Fidelidad al estilo figurativo en los lienzos de Marco Grassi Grama” by Mila Abadia, June 2015

Artflex Article “HUG+Kids”, July 2015
2013 Artist Moods Article “Marco Grassi” by Sandra, October

Things Worth Describing Article “Beautiful girls painted by Marco Grassi” by Lindsey, February 2013

2010 Cimo-Asso Article “Marco Grassi: Solodrawing2010” by David Valsecchi

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