SIX in Venice:the artist GIADA GRASSO at Ruzzini Palace
In the art exhibition at Palazzo Ruzzini, titled Six in Venice, from April 18 to Nov. 24, 2024, the artist:
GIADA GRASSO
Born in 1998 and raised in Ceva in the province of Cuneo, Giada Grasso moved to Milan in 2023.
The traditionality and circumstances of a small town, while fascinating and beloved by Giada, soon create a complex condition with which to relate.
Personal vicissitudes and insecurities, typical of adolescence but which when experienced in a limiting context tend to emphasize themselves, increase the desire to feel perfect in the eyes of others, the need to disguise herself in order to feel equal with the world around her, and create a difficulty in externalizing her emotions, cutting off that charge that the beating heart of art produces but struggles to vent.
She then began to draw quietly, away from extraneous gazes, hidden and in solitude, until in 2020, approaching oil paints she finally recognized her means of analysis and expression at the same time, the tool that allows her to understand herself and manifest herself to others.
Painting quickly becomes a path of personal introspection and communion with the outside world, her habitat, in which canvases become conquered territories and in which, painting herself, she finds favorable conditions to occupy her place, recognize herself and make herself known.
The work takes on the role of a point of arrival for a personal analytical process but also a starting point for the manifestation of what has been elaborated.
The works in the exhibition arise from Giada Grasso's personal reflection starting from the Rorschach boards, a kind of answer to the test told through art, the visual result of the search for herself, projecting into the ink boards and returning oil-painted canvases.
Each brushstroke, guided by innate mastery in the composition of chiaroscuro, inspects the relationship of one's own image and its reflection, composing what the artist sees coming out of the Rorschach blots, with the intention of investigating one's inner dialogue and reflecting on the duality of the self in relation to the surrounding context.
The integration of aesthetic research with the study of body language and personality are the conceptual foundation for the reinterpretation that the landscape of contemporary figurative art provides, the tangible evidence of a personal elaboration manifested through painting.
He lives and works in Milan.
Text by.
Livia Ruberti.
