Raffaello Ossola was born in Locarno (Switzerland) in 1954.
He graduated from art school in Lugano. From an in-depth study of the figure, his artistic development passed through an informal stage and, in 1978 he introduced himself to the public with his first personal exhibition at the Galleria Centro Design in Lugano, to critical acclaim. He travelled and lived abroad, and in 1990 he moved definitively to Italy, in Como, where he continues to live now.
He loves living in contact with nature, with animals, with silence, and with 1970’s/80’s pop music, which he collects and always accompanies him while working. He has visited Greece, the Middle East, experimented, analyzed, elaborated, and in the 1990’s there was the turning point: from an informal style, he finally introduced “his figuration”. Plants that are apparently familiar but actually inexistent, altered perspectives, reversals, altars, prisms, walls, pools, architectural constructions, are elements that the artist uses to lure us into his vision “beyond time and space”. An invitation to accept his provocative interrogative: if we saw what was not true? If reality were only apparent? If truth were concealed? He asks us to reflect by rigorously using images, only by means of painting.
He does not impose answers nor expects acceptance of his message. With absolute mastery of technique, with his “trade”, with only the aid of painting, he proposes his research that confirms the essence of his work as a man and an artist. A message that, due to its universality
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