Serena Grassetti - What We Hide

What we hide

Each of us keeps parts of ourselves that we cannot express in words.

In this work, the face emerges among marks and drips like a thought suspended between what we show to the world and what we keep inside. Earthy tones intertwine with white, evoking the traces of experiences, fragilities, and transformations that cross us.

An work about the most intimate identity, that which exists beyond appearances and which, at times, we spend our whole life trying to understand.

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* Shipping and presentation:
The work will be shipped without a frame, rolled carefully on a tube to ensure maximum safety during transport. It may be framed or mounted on a frame at the collector’s discretion.

* Original piece signed by the artist, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

This work is realized on canvas without a frame and is shipped rolled to guarantee maximum safety during transport.

ATTENTION:

*The canvas is not treated with plaster or primer, therefore it is a raw and natural material.
*It must not be stretched excessively during mounting to avoid alterations of the texture and the rendering of natural pigments.
*Do not use a canvas stretcher, as it could compromise the stability of the work.
*It is advisable to rely on an expert framer for optimal mounting.

Created on a raw canvas that enhances the materiality of the work, this piece unites figurative art with the expressive gesture of the abstract, evoking emotion and introspection.

SERENA GRASSETTI — CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

Serena Grassetti is an Italian contemporary artist whose research investigates the complexity of being human, exploring identity, memory, fragility, and inner transformation through a personal and multidisciplinary artistic language.

Daughter of art, trained at the Istituto d’Arte di Macerata, she has developed over the years a deep knowledge of the material and its expressive possibilities, experimenting with painting, sculpture, modeling, resins, charcoal, and techniques related to Natural Art. This experience constitutes the foundation of a practice in which the material is not mere support, but an integral part of the meaning of the work.

At the center of her research is the body understood as a psychological and symbolic space: a presence able to express what words cannot. Through incomplete figures, gestures full of tension, and forms that oscillate between presence and dissolution, Grassetti gives visual substance to the deepest states of the human experience.

Her work places itself in the international dialogue of sculpture and contemporary figurative art, in thematic relation with the researches of Rabarama, Berlinde De Bruyckere, and Xiang Jing, while the comparison with Andy Warhol, Banksy, and KAWS opens a reflection on the different ways in which contemporary art interprets identity and the human condition.

With works presented in exhibition contexts in Italy and abroad, Serena Grassetti develops a research aimed at overcoming superficial representation to reach a more intimate and universal dimension. Her poetics are based on a fundamental principle: give form to what is not seen, but which profoundly determines what we are.