Rai Escalé

Rai Escalé, (born 4 August 1964) 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. From 2009 to 2014 was deeply involved in the epic burst in and out of the mythical Barcelona Eat Meat Gallery.

"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 strang...

St.Jordi Fine Arts University of Barcelona

LATEST
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, Berga, CAT.

2016 Miroir Noir ‘Cecilismus’, Konvent Cal Rosal, Berga, CAT.

2015 Miroir Noir 'Paralelné Svety', Galéria Mesto Bratislavy, Bratislava, SVK.

2015 Miroir Noir ‘Potacek’,...