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About Fernando Grilli
I was born in the quiet city of Rafaela, in the interior of Argentina. A city committed to the philosophy of work and discipline. Son of photographer’s, growing up in this peculiar context, my curiosity has developed over the years. So I began to discover and understand from an early age this language of the cameras, the lights and the darkroom. Thanks to this environment I decided to improve my knowledge. So I began to study photography and cinema, graduating as a professional photographer in 1974. After a few years, I started working in the media; radio, newspapers and television, as an advertising producer and executive producer, and fate made me move through the universe of advertising and marketing. I arrived in Brazil in the last years of the 20th century with so many ideals and questions. I am convinced that it was to make a life discovery, it was where I managed to find my true "new self" in the paradise of Jericoacoara; a beach that at the time was almost isolated. I discovered full contact with nature and free life. A path of spiritual growth to discover more concepts related to nature and simplicity. After this experience I had the will to change and discover another prism, and so I disembarked in Europe to rediscover and study its Art, with a new look, without apparent conceptual anchors. Paris was my companion in the discovery of the anguish and joys that Art teaches us. Montmartre, the neighbourhood that showed me different cultures unknown in my experiences and put me on the path of great events, expanding my creativity and evolution. I was part of the great show that is EuroVision. This was a golden moment between the years 2011 to 2013, and in parallel, my transit through artistic creation began to have recognition. Photography took me through the paths of discovery of other countries, cultures and people. It was this diversity that encouraged me to reconnect with my Latin American roots. I returned to Brazil and decided to live in the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro. I began to be part of the biggest open-air spectacle in the world, Carnival. The work that I developed with the photography of this mega event brought me the knowledge of the art applied to the parade of the "Samba Schools" through the understanding of the creative process and performing work with the "carnavalescos", the true artists and authors of what is shown on the "Avenida". This new awareness overflowed my ambition for art, and I decided to expand my learning to go beyond photography, as had done one of my inspirers a hundred years earlier, the brilliant Man Ray, who inspired me during my research and discoveries. This is how I decided to dive into the unknown and venture into algorithmic art. Currently my visual searches in Plastic Arts, dialogues with different expressions. It uses a mixed technique that, from photographs, mixes with manual and digital interventions of painting and drawing, and algorithmic artistic foundations, collage and digital retouching. Each work is a continuous process of research, a true Work in Progress". All this makes me keep searching for new sources of inspiration, dedicating myself to new ways of interacting with Art.