Tuesday 3 March 2009

MARCO GRASSI aka PHO ( Milan 1976 )




He approached Street Art for the first time in Paris trains and walls, influenced by NY and Paris Graffiti Art, he set himself on the Italian street art scene during the early nineties, becoming one of the major protagonists.

In the 1995 he attended the painting class with Luciano Fabro at the Brera's Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, extending his research in materials that the city can offer, recovering elements from the daily life like torn manifestos and wooded pallets, used as support for the pictorial intervention, where the action of the time destroys and transforms the artwork, posing its roots in a urban context.

Moreover (influenced by the oriental painting and the abstract expressionists like Emilio Vedova, Georges Mathieu, Sam Francio ) works using the spray alongside the use of brushes and sponges, characterizing his style with a strong and powerful gesture sign.

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