STATEMENTS The statements series are inspired by the contradictions of contemporary culture. Slogans and hashtags are reminding us what matters, what doesn’t, what should and what shouldn’t. The new fetish of “speaking out” or “being woke” is something to acquire and show, like a status symbol or a trophy. There is always something - useless - to tell. Statements works are mirrors in which is reflected our political subconscious. We are the contents of a rapidly changing society in which people are having hard time to establish democratic dialogues among diversity. Slogans and politics are questioning the present times. My Statements are risky business. They ask one simple question: how contemporary culture can still survive its own ridiculous failures. URBAN LANDSCAPES (psychographic) The urban landscape works represent a permanent visual research of space and interaction. These works - crossing places, cultures, languages, divergences, convergences - represent the refusal of a given photographic reality. I manipulate the image by visualizing landscapes above the appearance, the photographic reality within its material experience. The appearance is meant through Sartre’s existentialist philosophy: Appearance is Existence. The imagery of these works focus on the interacting space, uncovering what din’t “appear” at first sight I mold my own ideal habitat using my own visual experience.
“I am trying to use my art as a tool to vandalize, to spoil the fake beauty, the fake symbols, the fake principles, the fake values of contemporary society. My work should be absorbed with a mix of real life and visual poetry”
LIFE
Born in Italy, 1975. Living and working in Los AngelesLondon College of Printing – BTEC Diploma Graphic Design – 2002
BA (hons) of Arts – Illustration – London College of Communication – 2005
Printmaking Studies – London College of Communication – 2002 Photography Studies – London College of Communication – 2006 Advanced Screen Print Studies – London College of Communication – 2007
EXHIBIT
2024 - Hive Gallery - Los Angeles
2023 - Hive Gallery - Los Angeles
- The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles
- Premio Giuseppe Casciaro - Lecce Italy
- Artspace Warehouse - Los Angeles
2021 - Premio MAKMA - MUVIM Valencia
Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles
Winner Enegan Art Prize - Firenze
2020 - Premio MAKMA - MUVIM Valencia -
LA Metro Redondo Beach Project
LA Art Show - Los Angeles
SOLA Contemporary Los Angeles
2019 - Hive Gallery Los Angeles
Premio Enegan Art Firenze
Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles
KEOA Contemporanea - Irun
2018 - Bienal Eve Marie Zimmerman Tenerife
The Other Art Fair Los Angeles
Au Fond Du Bois Bruxelles
Affordable Art Fair Bruxelles
2017 - Affordable Art Fair New York
2016 - Saatchi Art Los Angeles
Affordable Art fair New York.
2015 - Affordable Art Fair New York
Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles
China Printmaking Museum Guanlan
Gabrovo Museum Bulgaria
Xylonite Arts London
GX Gallery London
2014 - Cacak Bienal of Printing Serbia
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Affordable ArtFair Stockholm
The Freud Museum London
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
London Art Fair
2013 - Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Medici Gallery London
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
Gabrovo Museum Bulgaria
Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles
Affordable Art Fair New York
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair Bruxelles
London Art Fair
2012 - Medici Gallery London
Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Galleria Ostrakon Milano
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm
East London Printmakers
Affordable Art Fair New York
Fondazione Banca del Monte Foggia
Bicha Gallery London
2011 - Opera Campana dei Caduti Rovereto
Smokehouse Gallery London -
Triangle Studios London
Royal College fo Art - BBC TV
The Freud Museum London
2010 - ArteOra Arte Contemporanea - Foggia
242 Gallery - London
Penang State Museum - Malaysia
Pushkin House - London
Space Gallery - London
Subway Edizioni - Metropolitane Milano
Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna
Center for Study Political Graphics - Los Angeles
London Fashion Week - Somerset House
2009 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Egypt
Quijang International Print Festival - China
Pasquale Siniscalco Gallery - Milano
Bankside Gallery - London
Guanlan Print Museum - China
Gabrovo Museum - Bulgaria
Spike Print Studio - Bristol
Factory Art Contemporanea - Trieste
Sint Niklaas Dienst Museum - Belgium
Brothers Grimm Museum - Kessel
ArteOra Arte Contemporanea _ Foggia
London City Hall
2008 - Guido Iemmi Art Studio - Milano
Latajaka Gallery - Warszawa
Deutsches Maerchen Und Wesersagen Museum
Lessedra Art Gallery - Sofia
London City Hall
Bankside Gallery - London
Tetovo Museum - Macedonia
2007 - University of the Arts Gallery - London
Galleria San Fedele - Milano
CSPG - Los Angeles
Lessedra Contemporary Gallery - Sofia
Museo Castello Aragonese - Taranto
2006 - Premio Italian Factory - Milano
University of the Arts Gallery - London
2005 - Platform for Art- The London Underground
Red Gate Gallery - London
ARTIST TALK
May 2008 - Print and the City – Estorik Collection of Modern Italian Art - London
Representative Galleries:
Artspace Warehouse – Los Angeles – USA
Bicha Gallery – London - UK
GX Gallery – London – UK
ArteOra Arte Contemporanea – Foggia – Italy
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert Museum
London Underground
University of the Arts London
ArteOra Spazio Arte Contemporanea - Foggia
Factory Art Gallery – Berlin
Penang Museum - Malaysia
C.S.P.G. Center Studies Political Graphics - Los Angeles
LA METRO art collection