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the media universe (TV, cinema, mu- fuse in the form many more serious
sic, web); also the history of art for me concepts. Furthermore, a toy that is
is a basin from which to draw. Picasso assembled and disassembled is at
said: “The mediocre copy, the genius- the origin of creative art making.
es steal” and each artist is the result of Eminem (also exhibited at the Italian
what was before him. I grew up in the Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale),
period of digital primitivism, and the Kubrick of Space Odyssey, Kurt Ko-
“Asio Otuso”, acrilico su tela, cm 180x180, roots lead to English or American fig- bain, Pink Floyd of the dark side of the
2019 ures, from Andy Warhol, to Jeff Koons moon, passing by Memento Mori’s
and Damien Hirst. But I am Italian instruments ... but above all the Mar-
and Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravag- ca in Catanzaro becomes itself a work
gio are in my DNA. of yours, paint the majestic wall-draw-
From shy Internet users in the 1990s ing on the entrance wall, the walls are
to today: what catches your atten- painted like boxes of drugs. How did
tion to design a work? I don’t have this idea come about? The great exhi-
a specific method; it can happen to ac- bition at the MARCA in Catanzaro in
cidentally cross an object, an image, a 2016 allowed me to adequately present
fact that attracts my attention. Then my work in all its complexity. It was an
generally I look for information on the “open” anthology, in the sense that I
web ... when I start to get some ideas, I have combined the work of the last few
start to elaborate, edit, create with pho- years into a single project, completing
toshop, most of the work ends up in the it with other unpublished works. All of
trash, other ends up in some folder from this constituted a single large installa-
which I can draw even years later; and tion composed of works with different
finally a small part, properly developed, techniques in which the public, passing
can become a work. from one room to another, was stimu-
The study of man, of genius, of his lated to look in the mirror, inviting him
enterprises is central to your work. to reflect on the fears, phobias and in-
“Penelope alla guerra” e “Datemi un punto di
appoggio” (entrambe le opere sono in resina Just wanting to remember or at- securities inherent in the human being
e acciaio inox, 2018) tempt to involve the viewer? and in contemporary society.
Some characters are decisive in my lan- And now Prometheus...
guage: the human being at the center Prometheus is the title of the last solo
dico anche per sdrammatizzare of the vision, the relationships between exhibition at the Triphè Gallery curat-
nella forma molti concetti più bodies and technological impact, mul- ed by Maria Laura Perilli. Prometheus
seri. Inoltre il giocattolo che si tiplicity of languages used, expressive stole fire from the gods to give it to hu-
monta e si smonta è all’origine synthesis by pop matrices, elimination man beings and put them on knowl-
of barriers between levels (high / low)
edge: a sort of origin of human creativi-
del fare artistico creativo; io stes- and cultural references, cross between ty. But also in this case expressed in its
so da bambino giocavo prevalen- art and science, analysis of the func- duplicity, because progressing man has
temente con i lego e i chiodini. tioning of bodies (organic, mechanical, not always progressed, to the point that
Ultimamente sto lavorando a de- digital). In all this the spectator’s final many of his choices are destroying the
gli oggetti specchianti molto affa- presence is fundamental to completing planet. Among the many quotations,
we could not miss a work on Leonardo
the work.
scinanti (acciaio inox o specchio) Lupattelli as a sculptor, from wood of which this year marks the five hun-
dalla forma però “inquietante”, to Lego. My sculptures are objects, dredth anniversary of the death, and
come lamette, bisturi, pillole». sometimes oversized, often toys. I the conquest of the moon of which the
Eminem (esposto anche al Pa- like the playful aspect also to de- fiftieth anniversary occurs.
diglione Italia della Biennale

“The last food”, matita e elaborazione digitale su carta con 6 cornici di alluminio, cm 276x124, 2019

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