(29cm x 21,5 – collage and ink on paper)
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This is a brief documentary about me and my pieces of art made with recycled paper!
(Duration 28 minutes).
(29,5 cm x 42 cm – ink on paper)
FOR EVERY WAR CREATED FOR PEACE!
This is the real “PIECE” made with violence!
(2013, 60 cm x 40 cm – collage made with recycled paper and acrylic paint on paper)
A man lifting the skin from his upper body from which some arms are desperately trying to escape from his rib cage locked shut by a golden lock.
(2013, 100cm x 120cm – acrylic paint on canvas)
I’ve always thought that the smoke we are used to seeing pouring out of the chimneys is the exact moment after a gun shot, in which the only sensation is the silence that causes us to feel shocked and deaf for a few moments.
It’s like a cannon or a gun have just shot a bullet!
It’s easy to imagine the ozone hole being a hole in a person’s body left by a speeding bullet, like a wound that is invisible but keeps bleeding out into the sky.
(2013, 60cm x 35cm – collage with recycled paper and ink on cardboard)
This character represents our Earth’s despair!
It’s an unstoppable cry, one tear after the other, fills an ocean that will bury us all one day!
The man polluting cut off this forearms and replaced them with smoking chimneys and two faucets for eyes. This poor creature can’t close the faucets so he will eventually drown in his tears.
(2013, 50cm x 35cm – collage with recycled paper and ink on cardboard)
A little boy that is not able to play with his toys anymore swallows them up trying to absorb the last memories of a life that doesn’t belong to him anymore.
(2012, 120cm x 81cm – acrylic paint on canvas)
A little girl breaks her “screen” face trying to eat a plate of spaghetti because the television transformed her face into a sheet of glass without a mouth. (The blood creeping through the broken plate flavors the plate).
(2010, 100cm x 70cm – acrylic paint on canvas)
The project was commissioned to me by Sky for a commercial for a new art channel. The technique is recycled paper, using recycled sheets of paper to fill in the areas of my drawings. The paper I used for the face was recycled from a daily newspaper called “La Repubblica” from 1996, naturally colored by its age.
The shirt is old lined paper that was originally used to print receipts in offices. Whereas the belly button is made from a phone book.
The only elements that were painted are the sea and the characters’ tears.
(2012, 3,5m x 5,7m, collage made with recycled paper and acrylic paint, Milan, theatre school “Paolo Grassi”)
This drawing was also commissioned to me by Sky for the Sky Arte HD channel.
Materials – I used “Yellow pages” for the coloring of the sun, a newspaper called “Il sole 24 ore” for the skin tone, and for the shirt I used recycled place mats from a restaurant that throws them away at the end of diner.
(2012, 6m x 5m, collage made with recycled paper and acrylic paint, Italy, abandoned foundry)
GRAZIE! Tutto il mondo mi sta condividendo.
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This piece of work was the first “street-art” experiment with the recycled paper technique! The areas are filled with paper from old phone books.
(2011, 2,5m x 5m, collage made with recycled paper and acrylic paint, Grottaglie)
R-umori is the title I gave to my first piece of work made entirely out of recycled paper. The expression “R-umori” is a fun play on words that encloses two different meanings: the first one is sensory, Il rumore, which means noise in Italian; the second one is emotional, l’umore, which means mood. Both of them can have a mutual relationship because one can generate or modify the other.
The three characters illustrated were “colored” entirely by the texture of recycled paper from old phone books from Milan.
The myriad of names, of people, from the lists made up the color of my drawings and in some way were a vast palette of noises and different moods.
The color composition of the characters was full of the same people that lived in the city in which this piece of work was on display. These three characters represent three different emotional situations and the solution stands in the red element present in each of them.
The key represents the hope to see and to free your sight from the distressing habit of “spying through key holes”.
The balloon full of helium allows us to stand up and bear the weight of our head full of thoughts with a little less difficulty.
Finally, the tongue is the means with which we can fight the silence of a mouth sown shut, which allows us to communicate, scream and shout.
(2011, 4m x 15m, collage made with recycled paper and acrylic paint, Milan, Circolo arci Bitte)
R-UMORI from BLONDIE BLANK VJ on Vimeo.
Realizzato per raiTunes, di Alessio Bertallot.
“MA DOVE VAI BELLEZZA IN BICICLETTA?” ” WHERE ARE YOU GOING ON YOUR BIKE BEAUTIFUL?”
“Where are you going on your bike beautiful?” is a piece created with the will to bring the attention back to a problem present in the planning of Italian cities – the almost complete lack of cycling paths. This work declares this disgraceful absence by transforming a car into a monster with big open jaws ready to devour a cyclist and his bicycle. The car becomes the symbol of the denial of the right to be mobile without polluting the city. The asphalt in this piece becomes a hunting area in which the bicycle is the prey and the cars are starving beasts.
(2010, 4,5m x 2,5m – spray paint and paper on a car – Bologna “I park-art”)
I lived in Milan in Italy for a while and because I come from a small city surrounded by countryside this big city seemed like a desert of cement to me, the skyline was barely visible!
Every huge metropolis seems like a stain of oil that looks still but is slowly expanding and gulping everything down!
I felt the necessity to show and tell the story of the expanding city that feeds on nature and expels cement waste!
(2010 – spray and brush on wall – Milano – Italy)
A little girl picking a flower wondering what it is.
(2010, 142cm x 99cm – acrylic paint on canvas)