Rai Escalé

BIO 2026

Rai Escalé (Barcelona, 1964) is a Catalan painter and visual artist. His work has been exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States, and his illustrations have appeared in numerous Catalan publications.

He lives and works in Bràfim, southern Catalonia, and maintains a long-standing artistic connection with Bratislava, where since 2007 he has collaborated with Slovak painter and illustrator Miloš Kopták as Miroir Noir.

His individual painting practice is centred on the human figure and on the transformation of existing images. Working with paint, ink and printed material, he builds layered images in which fragments of photography, advertisements and popular culture, and of course art history, show through and coexist with painted interventions and other physical accidents.

Alongside this, Escalé has developed the Cecilist series, a large body of work based on interventions into historical artworks or their reproductions, exploring the unstable relationship between original and copy, the acts of appropriation, destruction and creation, and the way we perceive the images we inherit from art history.

In recent years his work has moved increasingly towards black and white drawing, pushing the same layered, appropr...

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...