Genuine Roman Art

GRA is a creative group of Roman designers established in September 2005. The name is taken from the Grande Raccordo Anulare, a 70-kilometre highway of asphalt and traffic that surrounds Rome. An imperfect circle with 33 exits, entering the centre or toward the surrounding suburbs, countryside and communities which are now part of the urban fabric of the capital city. It is the meeting point which connects the inner and outer, a post-modern surrounding wall which no longer defends against invaders, but serves to bring together and connect the countless turmoils that animate the capital. G.R.A. becomes GRA - Genuine Roman Art: a new way to create art, in search of an original artistic graphic dimension, the most modern technical expression. It is our attempt to awaken the cultural scene of Rome, a long time in a sort of hybernation, dorment in its reflection in the Fontanone, too busy to say “how beautiful I am!”, to seize the novelty that begins to be seen under the thin coat of a picture postcard. The medium chosen is the digital graphic technique, a communicative language that forms an artistic representation. Pixel can be considered as the tool of the current art form. But it is also a question of “style”: a modern graphic style that Italy lacks, especially Rome. GRA would like to promote the pursuit of an artistic trait of common lines that can identify an Italian graphic style. The importance is not the answer, but to question and set in motion in the search that originates only from the confrontation and interaction between artists. In the collective exhibitions of GRA, the participants interpret a particular theme confronting the same subject, which each artist interprets in his own way. The works shown in the collective exhibitions are therefore individual artworks different one from the other, but linked together by a common theme. In this way, the young graphic artists taking part in the GRA projects gain a new visiblity, the possibility to become known and know, in their turn, the creations of other artists.