Claudio Parentela
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Claudio Parentela is an Italian painter, illustrator, mail artist and cartoonist who is very active in the international underground scene. In 1999 he was a guest at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenja). His strange artworks are in many art galleries on the immense web. In these last months he has exhibited his artworks at the association Microcosmo (Torino ), Girasole(Villa Basilica-Italy), Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Espain), Galerie Slaphanger(Amsterdam), and in 2004 he'll exhibit at the Gallery Soqquadro (Rome ) and at ''La Cueva''(Milan). He collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal and punk. He has illustrated stories and poems of: Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel and Mark Sonnenfeld. For various publishers he has realized some booklets of illustrations and the comics: "The Slavering Rat'' and "The Halved Nightmare''(Innovation Studio-BGA Comix-Italy), "Fashion Robot''(David Lasky-Seattle/USA), "Stories''and''Il Bombarolo''(Progetto Siderurgiko-Italy), "The Sacrificial Lamb and the hanged Salamander at the Patè 666'' (Medicina Nucleare-Italy), "Claudio Parentela''(Romantika Productions-Italy), "Eudemoni'' and 'Small Black Trilogy'' (Poems of Alberto Rizzi and of Cristiano Quadalti, illustrations of Claudio Parentela-Criatu Productions-Italy), "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). During these 2 last years he's very present on many zines,magazines,art galleries of the mysterious and immense web. He collaborates with many zines, magazines and with publishers in Italy and around the world such as: Stripburger, Lavirint, Sunburn, The Cherotic Revolutionary, Chance, Lucid Moon, Malefact, Sick Puppy, Pitchfork, Edgar, Cabezabajo, Que Suerte, Kastello, Mani Art, Pintalo De Verde, Art Life, ApArte, Out, Germinal, Stampa Alternativa, La Cafetiere Editions, The Benway Institute, Phony Lid Pubblications, Unwound, Moon Magazine, Staplegun, The Lummox Journal, Untergrundblatte, Vitriol, Entmoot, Mineshaft, Evasion, Fagorgo, Kerosene, Lo Sciacallo Elettronico, Balkan Spirit, Liberazione.Net, Don Juan, Arti(e)Rumori, Ultrazine, Rorschach, Ghetto Blaster, Helter Skelter, Emozioni, Gibbering Madness, Bolle di Cartone, Labour of Love, ZZZzine, Bianco D'Uovo, Bries, Ratriot, All About F***ing, Kami Zine, PUS!, Roktober, Bathtub Gin, Experimental Forest, Stardust Memories, Funtime Comix, Spaghetti, Plop, Topaz & Psichedelica, Crimson Leer, Joey and the Black Boots, Blind Man's Rainbow, The White Buffalo Gazzette and many more.
To Contact:
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
VIA F.CRISPI N.79
88100 CATANZARO-ITALY
Telephone number: 0961-744087
e-mail address: c_parentela@libero.it