RAF - Soft Scream (Handmade)

DIRECT SALE €900

Handmade rug - 90x60
Authentication certificate included

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

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

He is a contemporary artist who develops a dynamic and recognizable visual language, capable of traversing styles and historical references with a current and experimental approach. His research blends 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 passage from digital to material: the works are transformed into handmade rugs. After the digital design, the drawing is transferred to canvas and worked on manually, giving life to unique pieces in which the image becomes a three-dimensional textile surface.

This shift from the screen’s luminous surface to the yarn’s three-dimensionality 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 deeply influences his visual sensibility. From a young age he developed a strong interest in drawing and image as a form of personal storytelling, starting to draw, paint and gradually approaching the world of digital graphics.
The move to digital came as a natural evolution of his research: drawn to the possibilities of manipulation and construction of the image.

- Pieces authenticated by certificate

- Create the frame only after receiving the artwork, as the dimensions of some pieces can 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 as each lot is packaged individually for logistical reasons and to allow opening a dispute with the carrier in case of loss of a single piece. (Any request for additional shipping insurance coverage must be agreed before dispatch. The related costs will be borne by the buyer.)