claudio parentela

black/white ink 1 | black/white ink 2 | collage 1 | collage 2 | artist's statement | chaos generation


Image Descriptions

The illustrations in black and white are drawn on paper by ink and pen.The size for all illustrations is 21 cm x 30 cm (A4). The year for all images is 2004.

The coloured images are all weird collages feature a base drawn by ink and pen like those in black and white.The size for these collages is 21 cm x 30 cm (A4). Also the year for all of them is 2004.

All artworks are untitled.

Inspiration

The inspiration behind my artworks are my dreams and especially my nightmares...and my dreams and my nightmares are all in black and white...I use mostly black indian ink on paper, because the black ink is perfect to draw my nightmares...I love heavy contrasts, the strong feelings, and the strong emotions... the perfect and better contrast is the contrast of the black with the white...the white sheet of paper is like my mind and all the lines, the black lines are all the knots of my mind...in these times my nightmares are many, and I need larger spaces and larger sheets of paper to express and to draw my nightmares...In these days Diamanda Galas and Joel Peter Witkin have a big influence on my soul and on my mind and on my artworks....

About Claudio Parentela

I'm born in Catanzaro (1962-Italy) where I live and I work. I'm an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist and on a freelance basis. I've been active for many years in the international underground scene. I've collaborated and collaborate with many, many zines, magazines of contemporary art, literary works and comics in Italy and around the world. These works have been featured in hard copy and on the web.

These include: Komix.it, Braintwisting, Stripburger, Lavirint, Komikaze, The Lummox Journal, The Cherotic R(e)volutionary, Sick Puppy, Malefact, Chance, Lucid Moon, Art Life, Evasion, Phony Lid Publications, First Class, This Is a Magazine, Diesel, Stu Magazine, Crane Magazine, Staplegun, Head Press, B.G.A.Comix, Pssst Zine, ZZZzine, Labour Of Love, Experimental Forest, Stardust Memories, Sunburn, Funtime Comics, Spaghetti, Pitchfork, Surface, Re:Magazine, Oyster Boy Review, Xero Magazine, Yahoo Zine, Stardust Memories, Shift, Cool Strip Anthology, Panik, Empty Life, Mutate & Survive, New York Press, Something Else, The Dream Zone, and many more...

During 1999 I was guest of the BREAK 21 FESTIVAL in Ljubliana (Slovenja). My obscure & crazy artworks are present & shown in many, many art galleries and on the web including the ''GIRASOLE'' (Villa Basilica), the ''TABULA RASA'' (Barcelona), the ''GALERIE SLAPHANGER' '(Amsterdam), ''La Casa Di Tolleranza' '(Milan), ''La Cueva-No Art Gallery'' (Milan), in Turin with the Association ''Mind The Gap'', the ''Diesel Gallery''(NY), the ''Little Cakes Gallery'' (NY), the ''Trainside Gallery' '(Haverhill, USA), the ''Scaremongering Gallery'' (USA), the ''Zo Cafè ''(Bologna), and at the shows that GRAPHOLA has organized and continues to organise.

I do a lot of mail art and I partecipate in all the mail art projects I know. I've collaborated and I collaborate with many bands of industrial music, noise, experimental & electronic, harsh & death & metal gore, and punx.

I've illustrated poems and the stories of Gavin Burrows, Harry Wilkens, Vittorio Baccelli, Claudio Morici, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, Mark Sonnenfeld, Nathan Medema, Richard D.Houff and more.

I've also created some booklets of illustratons and comics for publihsers including: ''Il Ratto Bavoso'', and''L'Incubo Dimezzato'' (Innovation Studio-B.G.A.Comix-Italy); ''Fashion Robot'' (David Lasky-Seattle-USA), ''Jeanne Dark You Got Balls'' and ''The Frogs' Ballet'' (Self-produced); ''Black Kisses and Other Stories'',and ''The Book Of Secrets' '(La Cafetiere Editions-Belgium) and many more.

Contact

CLAUDIO PARENTELA
VIA F.CRISPI 79
88100 CATANZARO-Italy
Tel.Num.:0961-744087
Cell.:347-1256756
E-Mail Address: c_parentela@libero.it
Website: http://www.furtherfield.org/cparentela/claudio2/index.html


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