claudia de grandi - artist
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📍 PV: 12 November at Gathering W1B 5LU
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ABOUT
Claudia De Grandi is an accomplished artist born in Brazil. She has lived in the UK for over 35 years and currently working from her studio in Hastings, East Sussex. She studied at the University of the Arts Camberwell London, where she attained an MA degree.
De Grandi's artistic journey stems from a classical musical education and was further shaped by the Japanese influence on Brazilian modernism. Primarily working with oils, she also explores mixed media to convey specific themes. Her Brazilian heritage, combined with her experiences in the UK, forms the foundation of her distinctive and evocative art, which continues to captivate and inspire audiences.
She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, including her recent solo show "Beyond the Shorelines" in Bermondsey, London. Her earlier body of work, "Waves and Horizons," garnered significant attention both locally and internationally and was the basis for the 2018 publication of her book Claudia De Grandi Waves & Horizons.
Her work continues to expand, reaching collectors in the UK and around the world, and captivating audiences with her unique and evocative creations.
REVIEW
Claudia De Grandi is to be congratulated on her achievement in the depth of her understanding of abstract painting and her transformation of radical abstract art into a contemporary mode of painting which returns it to reality. Her work is certainly poetic, certainly spiritual, certainly musical and deeply moving. But further to this it provides very important ways forward for such painting, beyond the deterioration of abstract painting into academic mannerism and into an authentic deeply emotional abstracted painting of great power.
(Stephen Newton 2022) Download full essay