Patrizia Casagranda
Paintings | Collages | Mixed media
Germany
About the artist
I consciously work with different materials and techniques to create an interesting aesthetic of familiarity and strangeness
Patrizia Casagranda's works are expressive symbioses of collage, painting and graffiti. In her series of paintings, the German-Italian creates enchanting worlds between nostalgic chic and street art. To create this special style, the artist deliberately incorporates the rusting process into the creation of her works. Contemporary beauties are projected onto the desolate charm of an advertising pillar.
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In an era of increasingly digital art, Casagranda's works rely on a tangible materiality. Layer by layer, they reveal weathered metal, torn and yellowed paper and structures reminiscent of crumbling plaster to the viewer. In this way, they also prove to be reflections on the fast-moving media world with its seemingly daily changing advertising campaigns and ideals of beauty. The German-Italian Casagranda was born in Stuttgart in 1979 and currently lives in Krefeld. In 2002, she completed her design degree with distinction at the FH Niederrhein. After changing jobs, among others for Markus Lüpertz and Günther Uecker, she has been working freelance in Germany, the Netherlands and India since 2015. Her art is characterised by expressive symbioses of collage, painting and street art elements. At the same time, her works exhibit a sculptural tangibility through relief-like surfaces of waves, mortar, burls and furrows on recycled materials. The resulting three-dimensionality of her works creates an impressive effect of depth, which appear like abstract reliefs at close range, but from a distance become expressive portraits of women. In a time of increasing digitalisation, which does not stop at art either, Casagranda consciously relies on a tangible materiality in her works. On wooden panels, jute or truck tarpaulins, she creates relief-like, jagged surfaces of waves, furrows, mortar and burls. Casagranda works with both the principle of collage and its opposite, the removal of decollage: she flames off the top layer of corrugated cardboard to expose the corrugated profile. She covers fabric over paper, applies graffiti lettering to In the paintings of the latest series from 2020/2021, Patrizia Casagranda reworks portraits of famous old masters such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. These pictures evoke a great emotionality in the viewer, which the artist wants to transport and preserve in our time. In some of these works, Casagranda has applied up to twenty layers and integrated four-hundred-year-old writings. Patrizia Casagranda's works can be seen at numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Numerous awards from the international art scene in recent years mark the success of her unmistakable style.
Works | Series
References
Awards
Artavita, USA 2021
Emerging Scnene Art Price, Dubai 2021
Kunstpreis Deutschland, Deutschland, 2021
1. Platz Lorenzo il Magnifico Award, Italien 2021
Excellence in Arts Award - World Association of Visual Arts
Italien, 2021
West Germany Prestige Award, United Kingdom 2020/21
Artavita, USA 2020
Musaartspace, Selected by the unesco – Italy, 2020
ADCfineart, Art comes alive Cincinatti, USA 2020
Art Foundation Berlin, Germany 2020
Art Prize Rome, Italy 2020
Südwestdeutscher Kunstpreis, Germany 2020
Kunstpreis Barcelona – Artboxgallery, Switzerland, 2019
Kunstpreis Zürich, Switzerland 2019
Kunstpreis Wörth, Germany 2018
Kunstpreis Worms Germany 2018
Solo exhibitions
2018 HIER UND JETZT / Galerie Palz - Saarlouis, Deutschland
2018 HIER UND JETZT / Art Life Gallery - Frejus, Frankreich
2018 HIER UND JETZT / Galerie Lauth - Ludwigshafen, Deutschland
2018 INDIAN SUMMER / Neue Kunst Gallery - Karlsruhe, Deutschland
Group exhibitions
2023
Art Herning 2023 | Herning, Dänemark
2022
Affordable Art Fair New York - Fall 2022
Bakerhouse Gallery | Graz
PALAZZO PISANI-REVEDIN | Venedig
Fair for Art Vienna | Wien
Art Center Berlin | Berlin
Alm & Art - August Galerien | Gamskogelhütte Katschberg
Art Gallery Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden
Kunst in der Fabrik | Oberbruch
27.Kunstmesse im Frauenmuseum | Bonn
Speicher Gramzow | Gramzow
Michael-Cleary Showroom | Los Angeles
Galerie Kley | Hamm
Part2Gallery: Nachtbrötchen-Gallery Event | Genk
Neu West Berlin Depot | Albershausen
Historische Zehntscheune | Stadthagen
Part2Gallery: Nachtbrötchen-Gallery Event | Amsterdam
Galerie Flox | Dresden
Galerie Freihausgasse | Villach
Jedlitschka Gallery | Zürich
Galerie Luzia Sassen | Hennef
Better Future Konferenz Welt am Sonntag | Berlin
Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022 | Skopje
Galerie Minrath | Köln
Art Gallery Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden
BEGE Galerien, Galerie am Saumarkt | Ulm
Galerie Luzia Sassen | Hennef
Part2Gallery: Nachtbrötchen-Gallery Event | Outlet-Center-Roermond
Art 15 | Bremen
Galerie an der Zitadelle | Jülich
FAIRS:
ArtExpo Dallas | Dallas, Texas
District 13 Art Fair | Paris
Biennale Venezia | Venedig
Kunst/Mitte | Magdeburg
art KARLSRUHE | Karlsruhe
Art Santa Fe | Santa Fe
Volta Basel | Basel
ARTMUC München | München
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead London | London
Discovery Art Fair Cologne | Köln
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm | Stockholm
ArtExpo New York | New York
District 13 Art Fair | Paris
Los Angeles Art Show | Los Angeles
Affordable Art Fair London Battersea | London Battersea
Affordable Art Fair New York| New York
Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary | Miami
2021
Part2Gallery: Nachtbrötchen-Gallery Event | Outlet-Center-Roermond
Galerie Depelmann: Kunstpreis Deutschland | Langenhagen
Galerie Kley | Hamm
Kastenmeiers Restaurant, Taschenbergpalais Kempinski | Dresden
art gallery Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden
Art Center Berlin | Berlin
Galerie Emporium | Millstatt
Jedlitschka Gallery | Zürich
Galerie Minrath | Köln
BitburgART | Bitburg
Art 15 | Bremen
Neue Kunst Gallery | Karlsruhe
Emerging Scene Art Price: exhibition on Elevision Media | Dubai
Galerie Lauth | Ludwigshafen
Galerie an der Zitadelle | Jülich
Urban Art | Pforzheim
FAIRS:
CONTEXT Art Miami | Miami
ArtMuc | München
Fair for Art Vienna | Wien
IIX Florence Biennale | Florenz
ArtExpo New York | New York
INC Corporating art fair | Hamburg
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg | Hamburg
C.A.R | Essen
Art Wynwood | Miami
Art comes Alive | Cincinnati
No selection 2000 - Biennale für junge Kunst | Altenburg
Urban Art | Pforzheim
Contemporary Art Ruhr: C.A.R. | Essen
2020
Part2Gallery | Düsseldorf Art 15 | Bremen Art-Center-Berlin | Berlin
Galerie Kaschenbach | Trier Artgallery | Wiesbaden Galerie Kley | Hamm Neue Kunst Gallery | Karlsruhe Lindenhofgalerie | Millstatt Galerie Jens August | Gmünd Bakerhousegallery | Graz Art Buchinger | Linz SI-Centrum Stuttgart | Artesono Art Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe
FAIRS: Los Angeles Art Show | Los Angeles Art Miami, Art Wynwood | Miami Art Miami, Context | Miami
WIKAM | Wien Contemporary Art Ruhr: C.A.R. | Essen
2019
Neue Kunst Gallery | Karlsruhe
Part2Gallery | Düsseldorf art gallery Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden Galerie Lauth | Ludwigshafen
Rathausgalerie | Borgholzhausen Foxx Popart Gallery | Zürich 32. Weintage der Südlichen Weinstrasse | Landau
Art-Center-Berlin | Berlin Contemporary Art Projects USA | Miami
Herrmannstadt Sibiu: 7 Länder 7 Künstler | Rumänien
Kunsthaus 7b | Michelsberg
Steinberger Galerien | Langenargen | Weikersheim Galerie an der Zitadelle | Jülich Galerie Buchinger | Linz Galerie Hegemann | München
Pop Art & Diamonds | Zug
FAIRS: Miami Art Week | Miami
Art Basel | Miami
Art Santa Fe | Santa Fe Art Budapest | Budapest Art Fair Herning | Herning Contemporary Art Fair | Luxembourg Lausanne Art Fair | Beaulieu Lausanne SwissArtExpo | Zürich WIKAM | Wien Art for Vienna | Wien Art Bodensee | Dornbirn Contemporary Art Ruhr: C.A.R. | Essen Art Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe ARTMUC | München Paper Positions | München Art Sylt | Keitum auf Sylt Affordable Art Fair Hamburg | Hamburg Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam | Amsterdam ST-ART | Straßburg
2018
Galerie Mönch | Bremen Galerie Villa Artista | Hannover
Galerie Lauth | Ludwigshafen Galerie Palz | Saarlouis Bürgerbüro Dr. Eva Maria Stange | Dresden Wirtschaftsclub Düsseldorf mit dem Friedensnobelpreisträger 2014: Kailash Satyarthi | Düsseldorf Neue Kunst Gallery | Karlsruhe Galerie an der Zitadelle | Jülich
Künstlerhaus Art15 | Bremen
Kulturfabrik | Fürstenwalde K2 | Remagen
Kulturzentrum | Siegburg
Roccartgallery | Florenz
Galerie Luzia Sassen | Köln
Mauritius-Klinik | Meerbusch Galerie M Beck | Homburg
FAIRS: Architekturbiennale | Venedig Art Beijing | Peking Art Fair Herning | Herning Lausanne Art Fair | Beaulieu Lausanne Art Bodensee | Dornbirn
Art Fair | Luxembourg Contemporary Art Ruhr: C.A.R. | Essen
2017 Galerie Luzia Sassen | Köln Pack of patches | Jena
Galerie Oben | Chemnitz
Bilder Bethge | Erfurt Voigt Gallery | Nürnberg
Foxx Gallery | Zürich
Pashminart-Gallery | Hamburg
Galerie an der Zitadelle | Jülich
Art-Galerie-Essen | Essen
Art 15 | Bremen
Galerie Bruno Massa | Paris | New York
FAIRS:
Woodbine Contemporary Arts | Uppingham
Affordable Art Fair London Battersea | London
Autumn London | London Affordable Art Fair Bristol | Bristol
Edinburgh Art Fair | Edinburgh
2016
Galerie Schindel | Freiburg Galerie Kaschenbach | Trier
Galerie Hunold | Greven
Art-Center-Berlin | Berlin
Galerie Heidefeld | Krefeld
Galerie K | Mallorca
Addart | Arnheim
Kunsthaus de Bernardi | Aachen
Th. Hülsmeier Kunsthandlung | Osnabrück
FAIRS:
Luxembourg Art Fair | Luxembourg
Museum exhibitions
2021
Museo Accademia delle Arti del Disegno | Florenz
Museo Francesco Gonzaga | Mantova
2018
Museo Francesco Gonzaga | Mantua
2017
Museum of Contemporary Art | Beijing
Sammlungen
2018 Neue kunst Gallery, Deutschland
2018 Galerie Lauth, Deutschland
2018 Artgallery Wiesbaden, Deutschland
2016 Galerie palz, Deutschland
2016 Galerie Art Center Berlin, Deutschland
Press
2018 Hildegard Ginzler- Lebensfreude trotz Armut
Generalanzeiger Bonn Internationale Kunst heute
Weser Kurier
Martina Sollbach- InternationalKunstHeute
2017 Zahra Hasson- Museum of Contemporary art, Beijing
1340Art – International art Magazine Decideart – artists Internet platform London IG the fearless artist – art magazine United States/Australia Nijimagazine London Rheinische Post Zeitkunst