Raul was born in Pescara (Italy) in 1980 and lives and works between USA and Europe. Gesture is the key element of his works: instinct, speed, color, emotional dirtying, passionate streaks, hugs of the brushstrokes… Everything matches with gesture which gets always imme- diate, hot, sudden.
Raul paints with a primitive speed since his painting is a way to materialize an
emotion. So his faces belong to people he meets in his travels, the streaks are
the streets he walks, the marker strokes are thoughts taking a place without support. Then, that visceral connection with music, that is all, wraps him, it’s everywhere.
From walls to paper, from glass to plastic, from newspaper to lined notebook used in schools, anything is possible for Raul if the surface permits it.
His first exhibit was in 2011 in Wynwood (Miami) at Gallery 212 and later in 2012, Hood Portraits at Cesare Manzo Gallery in Pescara. In the same year Giacinto Di Pietrantonio invited him to take part in Fuori Uso ‘In Opera’ (Pescara). Many exhibitions around the world and important collaborations with other artists, designers and high fashion brands.
