RAF - Soft David (Handmade)

DIRECT SALE €900

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Handmade rug - 90x60
Certificate of authenticity included

For each design only three pieces are made, but the handmade production guarantees that no two pieces are perfectly identical: micro-variations in texture, relief, color tones, and workmanship make each piece unique.
Rug with an extra white 4cm border for mounting on a wooden frame and for framing.

RAF is often presented, in exhibition and sales contexts, as one of the leading international artists.

He is a contemporary artist who develops a dynamic and recognizable visual language, able to traverse styles and historical references with a contemporary, experimental approach. His practice fuses classical figuration, urban culture, geometric abstraction, and contemporary graphic sensibility, creating works that oscillate between iconic and conceptual.

Inspired by the Renaissance, Pop Art, Street Art, and modernist abstraction, RAF reworks symbols and images through digital painting, collage, vector construction, and graphic manipulation.

A central element of his practice is the transition from digital to material: works are transformed into handmade carpets. After digital design, the drawing is transferred onto canvas and worked manually, giving rise to unique pieces in which the image becomes a three-dimensional textile surface.

This shift from the bright surface of the screen to the three-dimensionality of the yarn creates a material short circuit: the digital image becomes a physical, tactile, sculptural object. The rug is not a simple reproduction, but a textile reinterpretation of the original work.

2021 – Synthetic Identities, Spazio Prisma, Milan
2022 – Urban Icons Reframed, Atelier Nord, Brussels
2023 – Geometric Narratives, The Format Room, Amsterdam
2024 – Material Pixels, Galerie Horizon, Zurich
2024 – Surface & Code, District Art Platform, Madrid
2025 – From Screen to Fiber, Contemporary Craft Pavilion, Copenhagen

RAF was born in an urban context that profoundly influences his visual sensibility. From a young age he develops a strong interest in drawing and imagery as a form of personal storytelling, starting to draw, paint and gradually approaching the world of digital graphics. The shift to digital happens as a natural evolution of his research: drawn to the possibilities of manipulation and construction of imagery.

- Pieces authenticated by certificate

- Frame to be made only after receiving the artwork, as the dimensions of some pieces may vary by 1 - 2 cm

- Color tones may vary from the original work due to screen settings and lighting conditions during the photoshoot.

SHIPPING INFORMATION
Combined shipping for this lot is not available because each lot is packaged individually for logistical reasons and to allow a dispute with the carrier in case of loss of the individual piece. (Any request for additional shipping insurance coverage must be agreed upon before shipment. The related costs will be borne by the buyer.)