Gabriele Grones is a painter and visual artist born in Arabba, Italy. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His artistic research is focused on the relationship that we establish with reality through the dialogue with the expressive codes of art history. His series of paintings in oil on canvas are mainly centered around specific subjects, such as natural details, figures or compositions. The details of plants and grass are carefully investigated from a close point of view, giving shape to every feature that evokes the complexity of reality. His portrait series is based on classical iconological references and often depict the same subjects in slightly different poses and light conditions in an obsessive representation mirroring the atmospheres of the early Flemish portraiture and metaphysical painting.

For certain projects, Grones creates installations of his own works where the relationships between the different paintings propose unexpected connections capable of establishing a dialogue among apparently unrelated elements. This operation generates different meanings that calls to mind a symbolic analysis of our experience.

Gabriele Grones adopts the language of figuration to give form to everyday elements. He tells of his own personal experience, and through his own sensitivity, elaborates the traditional genres of pictorial composition: portraits, still lifes and nature.

Grones received his MFA in painting and visual arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy in 2009. Grones has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, in venues including The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Mall Galleries, London, UK; MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain; MART Museum, Italy; Undercurrent Projects Gallery, New York, US; National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta; Galerie MZ, Augsburg, Germany; Fort Wayne Museum of Arts, Indiana, US; National Museum of Fine Arts, Cluj, Romania; and Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, US. His paintings have been selected for numerous prizes and his works are included in several public and private collections.

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