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Ignacio de Grado

Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
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About Ignacio de Grado

I don’t use brushes, apart from a large one at the very start to lay the first colour. Everything after that is building tools: knives, palette knives, scraping spatulas, trowels. A single work canhold sand, gesso, watercolour, cold wax, oil, plaster and concrete. Each behaves differently, each reacts to what sits beside it, and together they make a surface the viewer can almostfeel without touching it. I work on plywood, almost always. The texture and the way the materials behave need aground that will not flex. Canvas absorbs or deforms what I am trying to build.The pr...Read More

Ignacio de Grado

Established in 2026

Featured Pieces

16
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

17
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

8
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

15
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

3
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

13
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

22
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

21
Located in Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, VN
Every work by Ignacio de Grado begins without a preconceived idea. The composition emerges and evolves during the process itself, layer by layer, until the painting finds its own res...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Plaster, Acrylic Polymer, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

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