Casagrande Peter – Untitled I

He was born in Weilheim, Germany, in 1946. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Then he furthered his education at the Higher School in Berlin, and in 1983 he was a scholarship holder of the city of Munich.
He has organized around 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 an international biennial in Poland, Berlin, Genoa, Piacenza,… He is the recipient of the German State Award for Fine 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 issued about his work, and several television documentary films have been made. He lives and works in Maitenbeth, Germany.

His painting is characterized by the expression of a powerful, free gesture that he records on the canvas with pure color. Oriented towards pure action painting, using lavage, with his gesture drawn through vast fields he creates splashes and spills, modelling with dense pigment and thus bringing the painting process itself to the forefront. The paintings are his personal psychograms that depict the artist’s intensity and strong energy released onto the spaces of the canvas.