Visual artist
Contemporary art
Nice – France
Expressing emotions
René GALASSI started painting late in life. However, he always needed to express his emotions linked to the strangeness of his relationship with the world.
He never attended an art school, although he always felt drawn to Art, which was unconsciously inaccessible to him.
However, during his secondary school years, he began to draw, using Indian ink or ballpoint pen, designs on a white background, which today appear as a tear in the fabric of accepted meanings.
René Galassi discovered art at the same time as he was making his way and advancing his artistic approach. He discovers and learns about art as he goes along.
What led René Galassi to become an artist
René Galassi still remembers the day he said to himself that he wanted to become an artist.
Initially, he had a need to create, but didn’t know what to create. He had to find something he could invest himself in. He knew he wanted to use his hands and his intellect at the same time. He had a very strong need to express himself.
Attracted by working the land, he initially thought of setting up as a farmer. Then life’s ups and downs, failures and questioning led him down a different path.
It was while working in the engraving workshop of Henri Baviera, himself a painter-engraver, that he had a kind of revelation. He printed engravings for Baviera as well as for other artists such as Hélénon (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), Alligand(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), Cottavoz (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), Sosno (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), Arman. Working alongside artists as an executor made him realise that, like them, he too wanted to express himself through art.
You move through life as you go along and you understand.
René Galassi
René Galassi, in his art studio
An accomplished artistic achievement
Calicots, pigments, paper
Work in progress
“Shapes and colours”
René Galassi is currently working on a series called ‘Shapes and colours’. His inspiration comes from the Cours Saleya flea market in Nice on Mondays.
He mixes objects he sees on the market with his imaginative shapes.
