Marco Grassi's works have been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, and international fairs. He was selected to be at the opening of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.

MARCO GRASSI

He was born in Milan in 1966 and he lives and works in Switzerland.
For the past ten years Marco Grassi has been working with a sense of responsibility in his
works, always being faithful to the figurative style of his works, never has he allowed this to
become an object of fashion or only satisfying a momentary taste. His language and his
subjects have always remained constant and declaringly connected to his sense of vision and
to the taste of his complex sensitivity, whenever such choices – the fashionable female figure,
certain colour combinations, use of lacquering, the repletion with minimum variations of the
subjects have labelled him, unjustly so, a Pop artist.

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It is true that the privileged subjects of Grassi are delicate and attractive, but also energetic
and resolute, female figures shown in fashionable, bright colours, but this should not be sufficient to frame the artist in a genre which is his only in the form but certainly not in the
contents of his art.
Marco Grassi renounces an element which up until now was a decisive element and 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 colours which tran-
sforms and breaks down under the effect of spatula and drippings, is less obvious. The figure
loses the factor of certainty and sureness, a base which permitted it to integrate itself completely in the complex weave of colour, now depicted in a more decisive background and effi-
ciently connected to the expression of faces and the intensity of their silence and complice
with those who observe.