THE BIENNALE - SERIES

PATRIZIA CASAGRANDA

b. 1979, Stuttgart, Germany

Purple Rose Fight For Change - is a Biennale Winner 2021 and Golden Art Award Winner 2022.

Patrizia Casagranda's artwork comprises of a multi-layered grid through which she presses the motif in different colours, utilizing a coarse-meshed screen has become her distinctive feature. In the process, Casagranda makes use of the artistic range that graffiti has to offer. Stencils, grids, sprayed and painted areas are found next to and on top of each other, also in combination with type fragments that she takes from different contexts.

Women are a constantly recurring element in the works of Patrizia Casagranda, whether as a princess, a mythological figure, a rubbish collector or a member of a particular faith. Initially, Casagranda used themes based on fairy tales, spraying typical accessories such as shoes, horses or frogs over black and white copies. Today, she focuses less on the allegories for society (as fairy tales can also be interpreted) but rather on the great, global themes of our time. Equality, justice and tolerance can be seen as demands resulting from her examination of the Indian rubbish girls from the Kabelia caste. These fundamental values are can also be found in her series Belief, which is about world religions.