Albero Cardiaco, 2014

After a childhood dedicated to drawing and painting under the guidance of his father, Paolo Grassino took his first steps in the art of sculpture in the studio of Luigi Mainolfi, in a cultural context – that of his city, Turin – still dominated by the pervasive presence of Arte Povera, with which he also shares the year of birth. And yet Grassino immediately managed to develop a surprisingly autonomous and original language, one which rejected connotation so as to open up to a wide range of materials, in a constant tension towards the language believed most suited to the occasion. [...]