M.Grassi aKa Pho (Milan, 1976)

He approached Street Art for the first time in Paris trains and walls, influenced by NY and Paris Graffiti Art, he set himself on the Italian street art scene during the early nineties, becoming one of the major protagonists.

In the 1995 he attended the painting class with Luciano Fabro at the Brera's Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

He extended his research in materials that the city can offer, recovering elements from the daily life like torn manifestos and wooded pallets, used as support for the pictorial intervention, where the action of the time destroys and transforms the artwork, posing its roots in a urban context.

Moreover (influenced by the oriental painting and the abstract expressionists like Emilio Vedova, Georges Mathieu, Sam Francis) he works using the spray alongside the use of brushes and sponges, characterizing his style with a strong and powerful gesture sign.

During his studies he is assistant at the sculpture studio of Arnaldo Pomodoro. Here, Marco learned and developed techniques suddenly fundamental for this work.

He had his final dissertation with the title “Aerosol Art” in 2001. After being invited to the most important Street Art event in Italy, in 2005 he realized his huge solo show at the Guicciardini Space with the Province of Milan entitled “Street as workshop and expressive model”.

In 2007 he has been in the Street Art Sweet Art collective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Pavilion in Milan. In 2008 he is in the “Dos Graffitos à Pintura” with a selection of Italian and Brazilian artists, organized with the Contemporary Art Museum of San Paulo.

The success will make the show moving the Recoleta Museum in Buenos Aires. In the same year he has been at the collective exhibition Junkbuilding at the Milan Triennale with the artwork “Via Brera 28 Milano”, suddenly requested by the Mario Negri Institute.