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Rae Martini (Milan, 1976), Italian visual artist.
He started the self-taught artistic activity from painting evolved latin-alphabetic aliases as unauthorized intervention in urban space (style writing - 1991/ongoing). Through decades of work, he focused on the process based on the materials mutual interactions, working with a wide spectrum of techniques. A leading logic gradually took him to the actual work themes: Rae creates portraits of time, weaves antique paper and photographs the dynamic state of the matter.
He currently lives and works in Milan, Italy.

Show/performance/lecture/collection at: 

Museum MUCEM, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée - Marseille, FR

Museum PAC - Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Milan, IT 

Museum MAMbo - Museo Arte Moderna di Bologna, IT

Museum MUDEC - Museo delle Culture, Milano, IT

Museum MAC - Contemporary Art Museum of San Paolo, BR

Museum Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, IT

Museum Castel Nuovo - Fondazione Valenzi, Naples, IT

Museum Fondazione Cirulli, Bologna, IT

Museum Palazzo della Cultura, Catania, IT

Museum Prague City Gallery, Prague, CZ

Museum Giuli Rosselmini Gualandi (Palazzo Blu), Pisa, IT

Museum Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, AR

Museo del Novecento - Milano, IT

54° Venice Biennale, pavilion Italy special project, Palazzo della Regione, Milano, IT

MLAC, Università La Sapienza, Rome, IT

Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris, FR

Palazzo Corvaja, Taormina, IT

Schoeneck Gallery, Basel, CH

Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Unruly Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Edward Cutler Gallery Milan/London/Zurich, 

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR

Millon & Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, FR

Triennale BVS, Milan, IT

Galleria CareOff/Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT

Galleria Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea, Milano, IT

Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna, IT

 

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2005 

  • Studio Ready Made, Pre writing, post script, Milan - IT

  • Spazio P4, Urban Edge Show, collective show, Milan - IT

         

1991/2023 

Independent special projects - lettering style writing. unauthorized intervention on public urban space - Europe/USA

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Publications:

  • Kill tha "G" word, monograph - essay about Phase 2 (Michael Lawrence Marrow, 1955 – 2019). M. D'Apollo, Neotokyo/Spectrum, 2024

  • In Coscienza - Voci dal mondo contemporaneo - catalog - a cura di A. D'innocenzo Fini Zarri - Do ut do - Persiani editori - 2024

  • Ri-evolution - I grandi rivoluzionari dell'arte Italiana - catalog - a cura di  R.Bozzini e G. Stagnitta - edizioni Dietro le quinte - 2024

  • FNdamentale - volume - Buff Proof editions - 2024

  • Tempoforma, catalog, I.Bignotti, F.Rui, 2023

  • A question of style, E. Bianco, La Sapienza Roma, 2023

  • Attitude, catalog, G. Grassi, Palazzo Blu Pisa, 2021

  • Graffiti writing in Italy, A. Mininno - Bruno editore, 2021

  • Buio Dentro, C. Piazza - Shake edizioni, 2018

  • Vecchia scuola - volume - M. Mantovani - Drago editore, 2017

  • Stealth - G. Di Salvo, United Standard, 2017

  • Frontier, catalog, F. Naldi, C.Musso - MAMBO - 2014

  • Stuck on the city, catalog - Prague City Gallery, 2012

  • Art You, catalog, Artsubli/Schoeneck, Basel, 2012

  • Mood Magazine, interview, 2012

  • Kult Magazine, interview, 2012

  • Rae Martini - 24 carat dirt, monograph - Damiani editore, 2012.

  • Lo stato dell'arte - catalog - 54ma Biennale di Venezia - V. Sgarbi - Skira, 2012

  • Rae Martini, monograph, Fondazione Valenzi - Neutry, 2010

  • All City Writers, A. Caputo - Kitchen93, 2009

  • Urban tribe, catalog, L.Tommasi - Silvana Editoriale, 2009

  • Rae Martini / Ghetto Landscapes, monograph - Blurb, 2009

  • Graffiti & Street Art, catalog, Millon & Cornette, France, 2009

  • Graffiti Writing, A. Mininno - Mondadori, 2008

  • Stile Arte magazine, interview, 2008

  • Arte In magazine, interview, 2008

  • Names Fest, catalog, Czech Republic, 2008

  • Street art Sweet art, catalog, A. Riva, PAC Milano - Skira, 2007

  • Mi Name is, catalog, Triennale BVS/Studio Ready Made, 2006

  • Street Virus, catalog, Studio Ready Made, 2006

  • Mikosa, catalog, R. Pezzella, Henx, 2006

  • Now Underground, catalog, C. Nesbitt, 2004

  • Graff Zoo magazine, interview, 2001

  • Tribe magazine, interview, 1994

  • King magazine, interview, 1992

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Residencies:

2014 Frontier - a MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bologna project - Bologna - IT

2014 Emergence Art Fest - Giardini Naxos - Sicily - IT

2012 Stuck on the city - Rebel Ink Collective - Prague City Gallery - Prague - CZ           

2011 Graffuturism - Art Basel Miami - Wynwood art district, Miami. - USA

2011 Faire le mur - Le Lieu Unique/MuCem - curated  by C. Calougirou - Nantes - FR

2008 Names fest - Rebel Ink Collective - Trafo Galery-Hall C/ Kino aero - Prague - CZ

2008 Bright Disorder - Museo s. Maria della Scala/Piazza del campo - Siena - IT

 

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Prizes:

2011. Art You award / Urban Art Basel - Basel, CH

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