Introduced to you through our interview, from Saturday on our friend and Milan-based artist Marco “Pho” Grassi will show his latest works at Circle Culture Gallery Hamburg (read his interview with IWISHUSUN here). The solo show which is titled [Plù-ri-mo] will overview his most recent artistic research by displaying a selection of multiple materials (“Walls”), ceramics, works on paper (“Monotypes”), as well as his new “Rayographies” – even though he variegates materials, concepts and techniques, at the second glance all seem to be connected with each other and keep a coherent aesthetic. No matter what media Grassi has chosen, the used material enters into a direct dialogue with its medium provided.
The “Walls” series which Grassi started in 2012 is composed of found objects and detritus from urban public spaces that he utilises as a subsurface for his strong and expressive abstract paintings. The artist also presents a new series of ceramics which were crafted in collaboration with the famous crocker Marco Tortarolo in 2013. As with ceramics, the “Monotypes” paper works – also part of the exhibition - emphasize the intrinsic need of the artist to commence a dialogue with different materials. Furthermore, Grassi introduces two selected “Rayographies” of his most recent project called “Le Grand Verre” that were produced in collaboration with the artist Matteo Bologna.
If you are in Hamburg, make sure you don’t miss the show! Check out a preview of his exhibited works here.
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Also, donÄt miss to check out Marco’s interview with IWISHUSUN here.
Photo: Marco Pho Grassi.
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When our friend as well as curator and founder of Circle Culture Gallery, Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer recently opened his new gallery space it turned out to be reunion of friends and supporters of IWISHUSUN: after twelve years Circle Culture has moved to Berlin-Tiergarten opening its third gallery space at a former warehouse on Potsdamer Straße and presents “POTSE 68″, a group show celebrating their new space and 23 artistic positions from Italy, Iceland, Mexico, USA, Germany, France, Austria and the UK, among them Jaybo Monk, Marco “Pho” Grassi and Kevin Earl-Taylor. You can check out their exhibited works below and read their interview here.
1 & 2: Marco Pho Grassi - read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.
3 & 4: Jaybo Monk – read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.
5: Aaron Rose - read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.
6: Kevin Earl-Taylor – read his interview with IWISHUSUN here.
Photography: Maria Ebbinghaus. Intsagram photography: Teresa Koester for IWISHUSUN.
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Marco “Pho” Grassi
Artist – Milan
Marco Grassi aka Pho has been rooted in street art and graffiti since the early nineties, but his art is more than that: urban elements merge with an approach to art history. A master of texture and paint, the Italian artist translates his urban background to his intense abstract paintings by hinting at graffiti writing’s traditional elements: the word, the rhythm of the line and a performing dynamism – all these elements find their perpetuation on found, weathered materials which reflect his urban environment in the style of Arte Povera.
Marco Grassi’s art is all about building and tearing down: He creates textures that are devoted to the aesthetic common on aged walls within our cities – walls full of memories and history, their living embodiments with cracks and traces of weathering. His work has been exhibited at galleries, art fairs and institutions worldwide and he has been a supporter of IWISHUSUN since the very beginning. We are very happy to welcome him as a friend.
What is the most important sense to you?
The sight and its memory.
Why?
Seeing allows me to “touch” the horizon, clouds and stars.
As a creative person, what is your vision for your personal work?
I ask the balance to survive between order and disorder. I ask the white to listen to the black. I ask the material to explain time to me.
What is the most beautiful thing you ever saw?
The sea. I often try to imagine what’s going on under that mysterious black and blue sheet.
When was the last time you gave back and what did you do?
I donated a big artwork to Mario Negri Pharmacological Institute of Milan.
Do you have a vision to make this place a better one?
Go back to an intimate relationship with nature.
Who is your personal hero?
My maternal grandfather and his unbelievable story of resistance to the nazi-fascism during World War II.
What is your picture for I WISHUSUN?
The “Outre-noir” artwork series by French painter Pierre Soulage in which the artist seems to discover light and white colour inside big black canvases.