Faces — we’ve all got one. Some are nicer than others, mind you, but there they are. Sitting on the front of our heads, communicating our emotions through their extraordinary expressiveness, and stopping our sunglasses from falling to the floor. Italian artist Raul, however, has decided one face isn’t enough. He turned up at London’s Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery last autumn with a thousand of them crammed into every corner of his sketchbook, and proceeded to draw several more right there on the fly.
CNB Gallery director Rebecca Lidert liked what she saw, and she’s sharing a selection of the Pescara-born artist’s faces with the world. Bursting with energy, Raul’s work is a reaction to the monotony of everyday life, and captures the relentlessly shifting, ever-interesting characteristics and expressions of faces in flux with an immediate style — primitive yet nevertheless constantly evolving. Raul, who works from Miami, London and his hometown, has previously exhibited the face-centric show We Are. The Revolution at Art Basel Miami 2011. A Thousand Faces is running at CNB Gallery from 6 March to 17 April.
