Casagrande Peter – Untitled IV

He was born in Weilheim, Germany in 1946. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He then furthered his studies at the Higher 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 around one 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 state award for visual arts. He is a member of the BBK-Bayer artists’ association. 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 released about his work and several television documentaries have been filmed. He lives and works in Maitenbeth, Germany.

His painting is traced by the expression of a violent, free gesture which he records on the canvas with pure color. Oriented towards pure action painting, using lavage, through his gesture dragged across huge fields, he creates splashes and spills, modeling with dense pigment to bring the painting process itself to the forefront. The paintings are his personal psychograms, depicting the artist’s intensity and powerful energy unleashed on the spaces of the canvas.