Giulio Baistrocchi Amazon painter

Website

www.giuliobaistrocchi.com

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

Middlessex university

Program

Ba fine arts

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

a stubborn artist reworking and relaborating abstract and expressionist legacy and experimenting whether it has something to say to contemporary art.This archeologic attitude is united with the influence of southamerican and chinese culture . Till now i was talking more about my pedigree and family story but no more because even if i ve been very lucky to interact with different cultures and make them mine, it is my work which has to give an impact or not.abstract expressionism and expressionism is very masculine and even homophobic,my art is gay and think women artists have generally more to say. so i m an alchemist trying to decanter male chauvinist and western influence from a very retro art, also because i m young and music videos are as inspirational as art, and my operation is not nostalgic

About my artwork

young and fresh even if looks retro. i m intereested in the energy of painting , which can be similar to music, yet differnt. synesthesia and dyslexia makes colour like a note, whith the rythm of samba r@b, pop. Painting fighs with natural staticity.use of material like pesticides spices vinaviland concrete fights with traditional painting and create cacophony and harmony, mix or split into different personalities.my oaintings are made of stains of dirt are poisonous yet are medicine. every cure can kill,every medicine can be lethal, according to the quantitywork is about life nad death, microcosmos macrocsmos, accepting and briodging polarities. dirt has a moral sense of iniquity of sin, so therefore conceptual and minimalistic art has a moral background, the canvas or the medium is left more or less pristine and immaculate.on the other hand when i paint i get dirty wiyh paint or materials and the canvas is violated. this feedom is similar to the pleasure of children in getting dirt, a sense of frredom and optimism which is lacking in contemporary world.the economical crisis is due to a lack of optimism who strated with the 11 if september till the actual crisis. optimism is not a naive feeling but a force which pushes forward, but is useless without analysis. this was the problem witj vanguard art, tooo optimistic in science economy but with no concern of the consequences like the environment nor poverty. My work is highly environmental, but i m conscious that apocalitical messages are not accepted by mass population.optimism needs to work with responsibily.responsible art can be fun and full of colours

Artists I like

looking for gallery representation fairs shows
Chris offili, Alberto Parres,. Ana Mendieta,Gauguin,wifredo lam, Roberto Burle Max, Baselitz, Vedova, Joshua Chandelier,Cloo Potloot. Tim Lane, Colette Veaute, Alexandra Unger,Isabella and Tiziana Pers, pollock, lee krasner, Mik Rasmussen,Tarsila Do amaral. Basquiat, Cavalcanti, ernesto neto, kara Walker, anish kapoor, Tony Craig

Interests

sex, environment conservation, Cattleyas , Orchid hunters, roses from 1120 to 1820, Mayan, Chinese, Indian Nigerian history, eastern civilization and religion, tarot, astrology vegetarianism, gay culture pop music, trance, world , music

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Biography
1998 duo painting show and performance with Alberto Parres at Gramma’s
1999 solo painting show at Porta Blu
2001 collective at Middlessex University Wood Green
2002 solo at Foundry, Old Street
2003 collaboration for a set at London school of film
2004/06 collective. Truman Brewery Brick Lane
2004/07 collective at the Festival dei Popoli Mediterranei Bisceglie
2005/04 solo Hammersmith Information Centre
2005/10 solo at the Bistrot Udine
2006/02 collective EOC European Orchid show Padova
2006/04 collective Pordenone
2006/05 solo at Tiziano Terzani international Litterature prize, Vicino lontano Udine Italy
2006/o6 performace with Area odeon (Torino)in Udine
2006/07 participated to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Villa Manin Codroipo
2006/09 solo Waiting White @ Mirror Udine
2006/10 solo @ Smile Udine
2007/03 solo @ Vicino Lontano Udine
2007/04 collective at Kulturnidom Gorizia
2007/05 Kulturnidom Ljubiana Slovenia
2007/07 collective London.uk/ud @ 3g arte gallery Udine
2007/08 collective Socchieve
2007/09 solo al quadrato dell arte gallery udine
2007/10 collective una linea non è una frontiera(one line is not a frontier) Maiano Castle Susans
2007/10 art event organised by Paul van Dijk Cafe Fantasio (AMP) Amsterdam Holland
2007/10 solo @ Snaidero’s showroom San Donà di piave
2008
premio terzani udine
dine with Isabella Pers amd Maurizio Maurensig
udine
oct 2008 caprienigma collective

prizes
residence
a atelier d artista toscana(si svolgerà a maggio 2009) won at London t in summer 2008 organised by Alessandra Masolino

upcoming events
duo show at Palazzo Colonna Rome december 2008
perfomance 2,3,4 dece 2008 project Take away

publications
page about
Giulio baistrocchi
on Gae Magazine. Seattle
Book On Freedom and, Art Mirca Book
illustrations on the poetry from francesca cerno soon to be published

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