Advert Description
Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Graziano Rey (1953, Turin - Italy)
"The Battle of Helm's Deep"
Enamels and sand on canvas
2016
100x100 cm
Signature of the artist on the front and back; certificate of authenticity by the artist on the reverse; certificate from the De Lauretis Art gallery;
FILED the Filing number on the back
Note:
Graziano Rey was born in Turin in 1953, as a very young man after sharing art with his brother Francesco and maestro Lorenzo Alessandri in the period of the "Attic Macabra", he dedicated himself for years to figurative art and, in particular, to the world of music . From 1982 to 1987, author of television theme songs, of which the best known: Buona Domenica, I Ragazzi della III C, La Giostra, Ferragosto OK, collaborates as an author with various singers. In 1991-1992 he won the Rino Gaetano prize and the Viareggio prize as a songwriter.
Columnist, he participates in numerous episodes of the Maurizio Costanzo Show and as an actor in Alberto Silvestri's Candid Camera. In 1993 he published the short story “3001 Spooky su Jork II”, published by Mancuso Editore.
Actor in the film "In my room" by Sergio Martino. He moved to the Tonga Islands always devoting himself to painting. In more recent years, the participation in the 57th Venice Biennale on the theme of "Moloc" at the Palazzo degli Armeni should be noted, an itinerary later re-proposed in Palermo and Vicenza in 2017. Between 2018 and 2022 he exhibited in personal exhibitions in Ferrara, Turin, Milan , Bologna. 67378711
