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Was born the 21/04/79 in Rome.My extended family has been my major trauma and blessing. Two aristocratic families with a strong history and cosmoplite, with english (distantly related to the Chambers family, in the navy for centuries and a painting in the Greenwich maritime museum), peruvian( my ancestors had gold mines in Peru), polish(my family came from poland in the year 1000) and Brazilian. My grandfather was a diplomat and went to a concentration (with his family and my father was 2) camp in Japan because he did not wanted to be under Mussolini’s rule after the shift of alliances. My mothers s very old family had enormous estates in tuscany,and glorious past as rulers, Pope’s generals. Both were ruined by the war, and mourned for the bygone past, my mother became alcoholic and my father ruined his diplomatic career for aristocratic pride, and I think this helped the growth of his fatal cancer. My inheritence has been a burden for many years especially as a son of a diplomat I had no roots,and difficulties in socialising.Went to posh french schools in Brazil, and Rome but I felt I had nothing in common with my spoilt fellow students . I did not suffer from my extended family while we were abroad and was not so outkast, and on my return to Europe I felt it was boring and tedious until and Brazil was escape to aristo pride self pity,arrogance, and a memento that whatever happens we must put a brave face and be optimist and happy. |
| About the Artist | |
My art has always been focused on color. Brazilian fauna and flora have always been my obsession.After my return to Brazil, I continued to paint lanscapes. As a teenager my urge to adapt to a sickening depressed continent was so compelling that I dropped art altogether. Brazil and art were so interwoven I could notstand nostalgia anymore. I was pushed by my friend artist Alexandra Unger to attend Colette Veute’s classroom at school. As an artist her approach was very similar to art colleges in UK, with much freedom , research and creation of a portfolio. My obsession was still there but i became more organic and abstract, the past became the manure of the future There I discovered an abstract expressionism orientation, (at the time I did not even knew Expressionism existed). I did not wanted to be retro so I was much interrested in Baselitz, Basquiat, Cobra Movement but never found a master to get real inspiration. For this very reason I attended Alberto Parres’s painting and life drawing classes but always been very indipendent and even if my technical abilities were stronger my style continued to evolve indipendently. For this very reason I was obsessed to study art in london and had to pay my fees and accomodation because my family did not wanted me to study art. I had started in italy chinese language and culture to conform to their demands but drawing the ideograms made me aware of my vocation.I tried to conform to the british art scene, but I realised that my obsession with novelties was absurd, there was no sense to ape other artists, and that I had to spread my own voice and that Brazil was again the spring of my inspiration but not as a mere nostalgia but as rich very badly known culture,not only of color and rythm but a different approach to modernism and a stronger idea of melting pot.In the my Brazilian painting the Amazon forrest is my main goal,and the nobel candidate the poet Marcia Theophilo, helped me to contextualise my work, because poetry and music are easier to understand than concepts and I did not wanted to have an eltist nor Popular work but for the people.England is my spiritual home, my friend and where I discovered a great deal of myself: a Brazilianised bloody european |
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fake dawn
2006 |
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| dusk is a mere illusion,the colors are very vivid. Unfortunately a new day is very far,and night is coming |
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a twilight whisper
2006 |
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| the fireworks of dusk are over and a sense of mystery arises,creatures are murmuring their last sounds before sleep,and the creatures of the night awaken... |
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nightlife
2006 |
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| darkness implies intimacy and crime. artificiality blossoms at night, and reality is a vague notion. the jungle is more dangerous at night but extermely mysterious... |
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seed:future
2007 |
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pink borders are the cover. Inside a world of potentialities, of colour... |
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carnivorous rainforest
2007 |
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| The Cannibal manifest from the twenties has the revolutionnary idea that mainstream culture has to be cannibalised and to make it brasilian. In the same way I have been eaten alive digested and made anew. In the painting red flash and a hand are the remain of corpses eaten by Amazonian violent nature. There is a feeling of mystery because you can feel to be observed by millions of eyes. Though the atmosphere is joyous and no feeling of fear nor sadness. A ritualised death is taking place and a bloody european is tranformed in Brazilian.No mere escapism in a primitive world, but a place where nature and modernity coexist
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JemanguÃ
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| Jemanguà is the goddess of the sea,and the mother of humans and the other gods of the afrobrazilian religion of candomlè.The sea like motherhood has a dual aspect of generosity, and pure selfishness.There is a natural desire to return to ours mother 's womb, but this means the complete annihilation and death of our personality. Likewise the sea is the idea of relax and holidays which is much stronger that the sea is also very destructive. the romantic idea of motherhod is stronger than the Tzunami.In candomblè, vodoo is mixed with goodness. Good is mixed with evil |
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frontiers fuck
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| glue, painting and insects are mixed togheter to blame frontiers and borders. a harsh but gay crititicism to the selfishness of nationl identity. Dead wasps and their melted glue represents the hypocrysie of european union, amd their stupid waste of money and their colonising mission towards eastern europe, and the predominance of germany and france. glue is not use to stick things together, but as a kind of vomit on a private property sign. Europe is a francogerman toy no wonder britain prefers to be Usa's servant. the colors represents my southamerican and gay point of view, a reaction towars a boring and cold europe . europe is not promiscuous enough and sex is better than dead wasps (europeans politicians)
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azucar, celia cruz baila
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| celia cruz brought me to cuba, in a rainforest dim colurful, happy but fulll of dangers...
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| Education and biography | |
| Education Primary schools: italian school in Madrid, French school Brasilia, Secondary school:Lyçée Chateaubriand, A levels in Fine Arts, French,Italian,English,Spanish, Higher Education 1999-2001La Sapienza Rome, Chinese language, western and south east asian history of Arts 2001-2004 BA Fine Art Middlessex University, dissertation on Passion on Art courses 97-2001 private course at the Porta Blu, life drawing, painting by painter Alberto Parres 2001-2002 life drawing at the Accademy of Fine Arts Rome jobs 2006 Stage at La città dell’arte by Michelangelo Pistoletto shows 98 duo painting show and performance with Alberto Parres at Gramma’s cultural association Rome 99 solo painting show at Porta Blu 2001 collective at Middlessex University Wood Green 2002 solo at Foundry, Old Street 2004/06 collective. T- Gallery 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, with visit of famous historian of Arts Vittorio Sgarbi. 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 |
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| _show at Smile Gallery Udine righ nowt - Vicino lontano may London flavour Udine July Italian industrial summit NY and Montrèal september - possible show in Austria |
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| Website: www.giuliobaistrocchi.com | |
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