Raffaello Ossola

Switzerland, 1954

Raffaello Ossola was born in Locarno (Switzerland) in 1954. He graduated at the School of Arts in Lugano. From an in-depth study of the figure, his artistic development passed through an informal satge and, in 1978 he introduced himself to the public with his first solo exhibition in Lugano, to critical acclaim.

He travelled and lived abroad, visiting Greece, The Middle-East, experimenting and elaborating his own expression. In 1990 there was the turning point: from an informal style he finally moved to “his figuration”.: plants that are apparently familiar but actually inexistent, altered perpectives, altars, prisms, pools, are elements that the Artist uses to lure us into his visions “beyond time and space”. He loves living with nature, with animals and silence.