Biography
Ester Grossi was born in Avezzano in 1981 and currently lives and works in Bologna.
Her artistic research has always been characterized by a particular interest in the imagery that links popular culture, folklore, and mass communication, exploring their languages and icons over the years through various exhibition projects. In particular, the focus of my painting practice is to codify and investigate the visual imprint of our current society, crowded with symbols and pregnant with subliminal information, using a stylistic practice that aims at the substantial core of forms in order to focus attention on the iconic power of images.
Her artistic language, which initially was predominantly figurative and originated from a neo-pop inspiration, has become increasingly essential and evocative over time, reaching a strongly graphic stylistic balance that oscillates between memory of figuration and analytical abstraction. This artistic perspective, which places my work in a sort of iconographic limbo, directly involves the viewer in the decoding of images, forms, and colors, allowing them to oscillate and explore between the two visual languages.
The strongly graphic style and meticulous execution of her work explicitly evoke digital production and its visual codes, a visual impression that is, however, denied at the moment of direct contact with the works, when they reveal their painterly nature. This discrepancy between the presumed digital appearance, generated by the imitation of the visual codes of mass communication, and the actual painterly production of the artworks is one of the main themes of my artistic research.
Her multidisciplinary background has allowed her, over the years, to develop projects in different artistic fields and to study various disciplines, such as painting, fashion, graphic design, illustration, and cinema, and has also allowed her to collaborate, for some projects, with artists from various fields.
