Silvio Balestra

He is an italian abstract conceptual mixed media artist.He began his artistic career in 2008 with digital photography, which he uses in an 'analogue' way, designing each shot to express and transmit the spirituality, the harmonic and aesthetic sense that works of art can instil in man, freeing him even for a few moments from the constraints, ties and frenzy of everyday life. In photography, he uses light in all its nuances: from the strident black-whites to the infinite fading of greys, following in detail the printing and editing of the works.
Subsequently, he experimented with other media and created computer-graphic works using Excel®Microsoft software, manipulating the materials of the photographic print by painting with pure inks on Fine Art paper, the fruit of this research are the "Concepts". His latest research is the "Charta Monochromes" in which he creates visionary worlds with engravings and scratches on photographic prints, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, depicting the deepest emotions of the human soul.

He is an Italian conceptual abstract artist. He graduated in scientific studies and his passion for the biology appears in his works.
Since 2008 he started with abstract,conceptual digital photography, and computer graphic then extends his artistic research reworking digital photos prints with pictorial techiques using pure photographic inks and engraving technique.

As early as 2009, he held a solo exhibition in Montreal, Canada. From 2011 to 2018, he won several national and international art awards (Biennale di Asolo, Black&White Spider International Photography Award, B&W Magazine, Combat Prize critic mention). His works have been published in art magazines and Artbooks ( Arte Moderna Mondadori catalogue De Agostini Contemporary Art Encyclopaedia...), he took part in several art fairs and exhibitions (MiaFair, Parma Arte Fiera, Oslo Fair, Affordable Art Fair,Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Rome) and collaborated with several galleries. In 2013 his personal anthological exhibition was held in Rome at the Chiostro del Bramante Museum, curated by the art critic-historian G. Faccenda.