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Inventory represents a selection of paintings produced by Rafael Grassi (Switzerland, 1969) over the past three years. All of them belong to thematic cycles that, with irony and a delicate sense of play, revisit some traditional painting genres.

From still life to landscape, including Memento Mori, these works reconcile a commitment to pictorial materiality with a taste for creating an illusion of perspective, a deceptive figuration. The artist embraces an uninhibited and straightforward approach to painting that embodies, as precisely as it does effortlessly, the possibility of continuing to invent images through the enjoyment of the pictorial practice.

A utopian impulse, a homage to the fragile and precarious beauty of flowers, or the acceptance of the finitude of existence are some of the themes that run through these works. Yet beyond the anecdote, the images emancipate themselves on the canvas, reclaiming an autonomy freed from meaning and constituting, each one, a vibrant and powerful celebration of painting.