Casagrande Petar – Untitled II

He was born in Weilheim, Germany, in 1946. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Afterwards, he furthered his studies at the High School in Berlin, and in 1983 he was a scholarship holder of the city of Munich.
He has organized about fifty solo domestic and international exhibitions and participated in about a hundred group exhibitions: in Munich, Hanover, Vienna, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Budapest, Milan, London, Cairo, at the international biennial in Poland, Berlin, Genoa, Piacenza, … He is a recipient of the German national award for fine arts. He is a member of the artists’ association BBK-Bayer. His works are in numerous collections: the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and many galleries, the Fondazione Reverberi in Genoa, … Many publications have been published about his work and several television documentaries have been filmed. He lives and works in Maitenbeth, Germany.

His painting is traced back to the expression of a powerful, free gesture which he records with pure color on the painting canvas. Oriented towards pure action painting, using lavage, with his gesture drawn through huge fields he creates splashes and spillings, modeling with dense pigment thus bringing the painting process itself to the forefront. The paintings are his personal psychograms which depict the artist’s intensity and strong energy liberated across the spaces of the painting canvas.