PETER CASAGRANDE
His paintings, mainly large formats, are born during a frenetic painting process. Many layers are superimposed by large areas of color. The table develops gradually from bottom to top. Traces of paint from the background remain visible and reappear on the surface, as if the painting wanted to recall its construction.
The more we look at Peter Casagrande's paintings, the more we put the usual conception of space into perspective. Casagrande empties the space of each figurative being and gives birth to it only through color and the superposition of painting structures.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Casagrande (bornFebruary 23, 1946 in Weilheim, Bavaria, Germany) is a contemporary German painter of Italian-German origin. He lives and works near Munich .
After initial training as a script painter (1960 to 1963), he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied from 1970 to 1972 and from 1979 to 1980 with Prof. Troeger and from 1972 to 1975 at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, with Prof. Kiefer and Cruxin. In 1983 he was awarded an annual scholarship from the city of Munich and the national promotion prize of the State of Bavaria .