Toy in Odessa (2022) Photography by Irvin Grassi

Irvin Grassi is a multidisciplinary artist who practices photography, painting, and drawing... He was born in Ferrara (Italy) in 1975 and took his first steps into the world of art at a young age after finding the case with the oil paint used by his father. Start immediately to experiment with different techniques of painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. 

After his first exhibition, held at the N.O.F Gallery in 2001, he was invited to exhibit at the Museum Piva Mario in Ferrara, where two of his works are still on display. In several groups, he successfully it's his pictures in Venice, in a moment he calls transitional and experimental art. Following a sabbatical semester in which he toured Europe to visit the most important museums of art, in a narrow, dimly lit hallway of an Edinburgh art gallery, he sees for the first time two pictures of the greatness of a man by Francesca Woodman. 

It remains dazzled by the beauty and drama of those two images and understands their true artistic calling in photography. Shy and solitary, he preferred environmental and conceptual photography, always remaining faithful to the contemporary world, bombarded by images and digital processing, for misleading the masses by systematically losing sight of the beauty and the simple things that surround us. His photos and his first self-published books, which were always only made in small numbers, are very controversial and can be found in collections all over the world.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1975
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists