Rai Escalé

Rai Escalé is a Catalan painter and visual artist. His work has been shown extensively around Europe and USA, and his illustrations have appeared in many Catalan media. He works between south Catalonia, where he lives now, and Bratislava, where he collaborates since 2007 with Miloš Kopták in the Miroir Noir project.

"I am painter and I mostly paint people.
Due to his biological implications human face give the greatest and deepest source of emotions and information to spectator, and being a very simple icon, when representing it lets the artist plenty of space to play with emotions and feelings. I've always been doing portraits
In the early years I used to over paint my own paints, but soon that came to be a problem, and had to start looking for 'painted' layers to keep painting. So I started making my own through collage or just painting over photos or printed material glued on a canvas.
Since then I permanently seek and find images laying hidden under other images. Random images among the millions that we come across every day.
And that (when successfully done), gives all my works this strange sensation of layered reality, with bits of dada, surrealistic or pop sensations inlaid or as constructing parts of each portrait.
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St.Jordi Fine Arts University of Barcelona.
Painting and etching.

LATEST

2026 Miroir Noir 'Salon de Beauté', Galga Art, Palau-Saverdera, CAT.

2026 Rai Escalé 'Hora Nigra', Arts Club Bcn, Barcelona, CAT.

2025 Rai Escalé 'Freaks', Aigua, Bràfim, CAT.

2024 Rai Escalé '(2024) Blanc i Negre , Sala C. Sindreu, L'Ametlla del Vallès, CAT.

2024 Obertura Group Show, Galga, Palau-Saverdera, CAT

2024 Le printemps en Avant Retard, La pièce Blanche, Paris, FRA

2024 Miroir Noir 'Panorama' AIGUA, Bràfim, CAT.

2022 Rai Escalé, ‘Cecilismus’, Les Bernardes, Salt, CAT

2021, Rai Escalé, 'A Bigger Cecilismus', Studio Weil, Port Andraitx, Mallorca, SPA.

2020, Miroir Noir, 'Cecilizmus', Nitrianska Gal´eria, Nitra, SVK. (Apr) (posponed to 2021 unknown date).

2020 Miroir Noir, MRB, Turčianska galéria v Martine, Martin SVK.

2019 Rai Escalé, 'Museum', Santa Teca Fest, Castell d'Escornalbou, Tarragona, CAT

2018 Rai Escalé, 'Totes', Victòria, Gironella, CAT.

2018 Miroir Noir, 'Nature Morte', Galéria M. A. Bazovsky, Trenčín, SVK.

2017 Rai Escalé, ‘Cecilismus’, 1e Biennale Populaire d'Arts Visuels, Viviers les Montagnes, Tarn, FR.

2017 Miroir Noir 'Nocturno', Dub Gallery, Perlhimov, CZR

2016 Miroir Noir ‘Cecilismus’, Hell Gallery, Barcelona, CAT.

2016 Rai Escalé ‘Some Possible Giocondas’, Konvent, Berg...