RAFAEL
CASSARO

The artist stays in shadow. The work holds the light.

Rafael Cassaro was born in Santo André, São Paulo, into a family where art was already part of everyday life. His mother was an artist, and the people who raised him drew, painted and worked with their hands. He lost her early; the language she worked in stayed.

Art reached him before he could name it. The women who recur throughout his work were never a subject he set out to choose, he simply understands now where they come from. What was handed down to him, he keeps handing back, one figure at a time.

Over more than twenty years his hand has crossed Europe, South America and North America, rooted in black and grey realism, moving today between classical painting, the Renaissance, the Baroque, and abstraction. He works on canvas as readily as on skin.

What memory could not hold, the work carries, one figure, one life at a time.

Rafael Cassaro · Boca Raton, Florida