Letter Rug III by Raul

Letter rug III by Raul Dimensions: D 300 x W 200 cm Materials: viscose, linen Other colors available separately. The ‘Letter’ rug comes from a series entitled “Nomadic signs” representing all the signs and symbols encountered by the artist during his travels across different countries and cultures. Thus abstracted, these signs become a universal, vivid language whose soul is expressed through the painting gesture, its energetic force. Raul was born in Pescara (Italy) in 1980 and lives and works between USA and Europe. Gesture is the key element of his works: instinct, speed, color, emotional dirtying, passionate streaks, hugs of the brushstrokes... Everything matches with gesture which gets always immediate, hot, sudden. Raul paints with a primitive speed since his painting is a way to materialize anemotion. So his faces belong to people he meets in his travels, the streaks are the streets he walks, the marker strokes are thoughts taking a place without support. Then, that visceral connection with music, that is all, wraps him, it’s everywhere. from walls to paper, from glass to plastic, from newspaper to lined notebook used in schools, anything is possible for Raul if the surface permits it. His first exhibit was in 2011 in Wynwood (Miami) at Gallery 212 and later in 2012, Hood Portraits at Cesare Manzo Gallery in Pescara. In the same year Giacinto Di Pietrantonio invited him to take part in Fuori Uso ‘In Opera’ (Pescara). Many exhibitions around the world and important collaborations with other artists, designers and high fashion brands.