Casagrande Peter – Untitled V

He was born in Weilheim, Germany, in 1946. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He then specialized at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and in 1983 was a scholarship recipient of the city of Munich.
He has organized around fifty solo domestic and international exhibitions and participated in about 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 artists’ association BBK-Bayer. His works are part of numerous collections: the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and many galleries, the Fondazione Reverberi in Genoa,… Numerous publications have been dedicated to his work, and several television documentaries have been made. He lives and works in Maitenbeth, Germany.

His painting is characterized by the expression of a powerful, free gesture captured on canvas with pure color. Turning to pure action painting, using lavage, he creates splashes and pours with his gesture swept across vast fields, modeling dense pigment and thus bringing the painting process itself to the forefront. The paintings are his personal psychograms that depict the artist’s passion and strong energy released over the spaces of the canvas.