Bobo Ivancich De La Torriente

Born in Venice, Italy in 1963.
Bobo Ivancich lives and works between New York and Venice.
An eclettic artist : he is on the line Manzoni-Gino de Dominicis-Cattelan. He mainly works with oil on canvas, but also with digital art, istallations, ecc.

An eclettic artist : he goes from Hyper realism to digital art to installations, to irony and paradoxe

BIOGRAPHY
Bobo Ivancich, Marquis de la Torriente, was born in Venice in 1963, the heir of a noble Italian-Cuban family.
The family was very close to prominent artists of the period including Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound - with whom Bobo played chess - characters that appear frequently in Ivancich's paintings alongside Hollywood friends of his, such as Quentin Tarantino and Jude Law.
"Enfant prodige" and at the same time "Enfant terrible", Bobo started painting at an early age, after seeing his fellow countryman, the painter Wilfredo Lam at work.
As a child, Bobo often visited Peggy Guggenheim's home before it become the contemporary Venetian Foundation and the Venice Biennale of contemporary art. Peggy was a dear family friend and Bobo lived in Venice at Palazzo Barbaro, where Peggy and the American painter Sargent had also lived.
When Bobo was just eighteen, his works were bought by the American Lambert Collection; later his works were sold to some of the most influential collectors in the world including such families as the Rosekrans, the Cipriani and the Versace familys recent acquisition at Sothebys auction.
A major influence in Ivancich's creative life was his long friendship with the great Italian mast...