{"id":8229,"date":"2019-09-03T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=8229"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:48:57","slug":"ester-grossi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=8229","title":{"rendered":"Ester Grossi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in 1981 in Avezzano, Italy, Ester Grossi is a multidisciplinary artist and works in various creative fields. This is no doubt also due to her wide-ranging education. After her High School diploma in Fashion, Design and Decoration at the art institute \u201cVincenzo Bellisario<\/a><\/span>\u201d in her hometown, she frequented the DAMS Bologna<\/a><\/span> (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo \u2013 Institute for Drama, Art and Music Studies). With her thesis \u201cThe Straight Story. Lynch e la pittura regionalista\u201d she graduated with a bachelor in 2005. Subsequently, she made her master\u2019s degree in Television, Cinema and Multimedia Production (University of Bologna) in 2008, followed by the Higher Education Diploma in Graphic Technique for Press and Printing, Salesian Institute of Bologna in 2009.<\/p>\n

Besides her personal pictorial research, Ester created posters, magazines and album covers. Inter alia, she painted several images as basis for the annual promotional posters of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale<\/a><\/span> in Spoleto (Italy). This long-lasting cooperation with the theatre allowed her to discover the world of opera, at the time quite unknown to her. \u201cUna notte, d\u2019estate\u201d, our Artwork of the Month \/May 2026 was the advertisement for the season 2013.<\/p>\n

With Sara Bonaventura<\/a><\/span>, Ester conceived the visual background for the video<\/a><\/span> of the album \u201cPoseidon\u201d by the Finnish musician Lau Nau<\/a><\/span> in 2017 and designed the LP cover for 5 x 4<\/a><\/span> by the same artist in 2022. In the same year, she made the cover for the album \u201cMORGON and KVELD\u201d by the Norwegian performer Kristin Bolstad<\/a><\/span>. In cooperation with other creatives, she designed clothing and accessories, an exhibition stand, many other promotional posters for film and music festivals.<\/p>\n

In parallel, Ester is pursuing her artistic career as a painter with a special interest in popular culture, folklore, and mass communication. Always in a highly graphical technique, her earlier works show often stylised people (Written on the Hays<\/a><\/span>, 2012); The Line below<\/a><\/span>, 2012; Fucinus Lacus<\/a><\/span>, 2013). These are increasingly disappearing from Ester\u2019s pictorial spaces, giving way to fields of colour and lines (Token<\/a><\/span>, 2014; Lumen<\/a><\/span> 2015; Deep Down Inside the Colour<\/a><\/span>, 2016). Prefaced by the series Red Hook Lines<\/a><\/span> (2018), where she incorporated her impressions of the surroundings during her artist residency in Brooklyn, she began in 2020 her still ongoing series \u201cArchitecture<\/a><\/span>\u201d. Nonetheless, human beings didn\u2019t totally vanish. Continuing since 2015, her \u201cPersonae<\/a><\/span>\u201d were in the beginning more abstract masks. A representative example is our Artwork of the month \/ September 2019<\/a><\/span> \u201cBlack Out 2\u201d from 2018. Over time, the Personae began to take on a more human form again. However, they remain faceless and anonymous. Thus, the pictural work ranges between stylised figuration and analytical abstraction.<\/p>\n

Most of Ester\u2019s series were presented in solo shows, mostly in Italy. Moreover, her works joined numerous group exhibitions in Italy, but also in several European countries, the Ivory Coast and Cuba. Twice she was finalist for the Arteam Cup and the Premio Cairo Prize and honoured by the Italian Factory Prize in 2010. Currently, Ester\u2019s paintings for the promotional posters of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale are presented in the group exhibition \u201cLirico Sperimentale \u2013 Manifesti d\u2019autore<\/a><\/span>\u201d in the Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto. The show in occasion of the 80th anniversary of the theatre\u2019s activity is open until 2 June 2026. On view is a selection of original sketches and preparatory drawings, displayed alongside the posters subsequently produced.<\/p>\n

Ester lives and works in Bologna.<\/p>\n

www.estergrossi.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Artwork of the month \/ September 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n