| Qualified in painting and printing by the Fine Arts School of Barcelona, my work has evolved from a pop-punk treatment and subject matter that can be seen ever since my late-80s record cover designs, posters, paintings, prints and comics, to the extremely personal portrait imagery developed in my illustrations for La Vanguardia, Lateral or Quimera and brought to its full expression in my disturbing paintings of these last years. |  |
Rai Escalé
Qualified in painting and printing by the Fine Arts School of Barcelona, my work has evolved from a pop-punk treatment and subject matter that can be seen ever since my late-80s record cover designs, posters, paintings, prints and comics, to the extremely personal portrait imagery developed in my illustrations for La Vanguardia, Lateral or Quimera and brought to its full expression in my disturbing paintings of these last years.
Lately, I’ve been discovering my ability to live inside the surrealistic game of being able to permanently seek and find (and then put to paper) images, laying hidden under other images; random images among the millions that we come across every day. I sit in front of my canvas and I never find it white. So, I close my eyes and start turning it upside down. There’s always someone there, hiding and waiting to be rescued. I paint him or her until unmasked and solid. When the newly created finally breathes and takes life, we have a toast. After that, I leave the creature to play with the others in my studio, and I go for another rescue. It’s always the same, and now I have a huge family.
I discover and reshape ghosts, turning them into portraits.
