Marco Grassi is an Italian artist born in Reggio Emilia in 1987 who instead of dedicating himself to the boring world of accounting, has decided to dedicate his life to his great passion for drawing. After graduating in accounting, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. As he himself tells:

“I attended a course of pictorial restoration that allowed me to get in touch with the reality of ancient art. This made me decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. “

Equipped with incredible technical precision and great talent in the expressive rendition of his characters, Marco manages to bring out the most hidden emotions in a completely natural way. Each work requires two or three months of work and finishing, but what makes these paintings different from a photographer?

The surrealist element given by the textures with floral motifs and the skin that turns into porcelain brings to light the fragility of the human being:

“It’s not about tattoos, they are metamorphoses, contaminations of the body and the soul of the subject.”

Painting manages to make what is the contrast between the inner world and the surface, aesthetically beautiful but at the same time aseptic. Surreal hyperrealism becomes a good compromise to represent the middle ground between the two parallel universes.

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