Self-taught artist.
At the age of 12Rae started to make his first sketches on paper followed by the earliest Tagson the streets.
His daily street and train bombing activity lasted 12 years, from 1990 to 2002, without interruptions.
Ever since he did his first piece, he handled cameras to photograph them and kept on taking pictures, also of the urban landscapes and street details which gave him energy and inspiration.
He painted his first canvas in 1992 and did his first one-man exhibition in 1998.
In 2004, he joined the Rebel Ink collective with Marco Klefisch and Luca “Bean One” Barcellona, giving birth to a live performance focusing on the study and practice of the freestyle fusion involving live Calligraphy, Writing and Illustration on large-sized canvases.
Over the years, his canvas painting got close to informal abstract painting, tracing a development path which is manifest in specific painting periods, from Steel Burners to Zen Minimal, then from Street Elegant to the last one: the Ghetto Landscapes.
Rae held solo and collective exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.
He works and live in Milan, Italy.
