Rae Martini - Digit 032

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

The work is a typical example of Rae Martini's artistic production. The canvas's surface is covered with a thick layer of material, revealing the artist's touch. This touch consists of overlapping layers of paint, charged with the energy imparted by the artist's hand. As usual, the artwork features numbers, semantic symbols with a strong symbolic value that, in the informal context of the work, heighten the sense of incommunicability.

Raei Martini was born in Milan in 1976. In the late 1980s, he was fascinated by the first influences of the New York Writing phenomenon that reached Italy. He drew his first sketches on paper, and in the early 1990s, his first Tags on the street, culminating in his Masterpieces on trains. Rae Martini is a pure Wildstyler, and as such, he studies, designs, and evolves the structures of letters and writing, painting illegally in urban settings, adhering to the Writing movement and culture. Martini's street bombing activity lasted 12 years, from 1990 to 2002, daily, non-stop, on every surface. In 1992, he extended his studies on the evolution of lettering to canvas, thus beginning his own pictorial journey. He exhibited in underground contexts that were part of the niche cultural movement, following a path similar to that of some writers who, in the 1980s in New York's East Village, entered the exhibition circuit of art galleries such as Fashion Moda and Fun Gallery. Subsequently, and up to the present, his canvas painting gradually refined its abstract direction, branching out into material informality and appearing in galleries and museums. He has had several solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. He lives and works in Milan.

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