Angelo Di Gianfilippo

Hi my name is Angelo Di Gianfilippo, i was born in 1974 in Rome where I live and work.
My monotypes are all born from magazine collages, they are all unique pieces. Are all printend on washi paper. My works propose a reflection on the iconography of women, found in advertising and in fashion magazines, images in which the female figure is a simple support for promoting commercial objects and products. With this particular printing technique, I take away all the superfluous, giving back to the subject his personality. Started as pure technical experimentation my work turned out. Using a technique, learned during my studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland), I realized that by "tearing" the ink from the images I chose, they changed identities. Proceeding with the experimentation, for physical / mechanical reasons, related to the type of paper and the physical characteristics of the inks, the search for subjects took place more and more often taking images from fashion magazines. By literally tearing the ink to print it on Japanese paper, the negatives began to communicate. The loss of legibility, of the integral image, restored to the subject an autonomous identity with respect to its initial function. The reasons are s...

I studied at the "Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali" di San Giacomo in Rome. I attended live painting and nude drawing classes, analyzing the techniques of engraving and printing art with passion. Recetly I have studied lithography and monotype printing techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland).

2019 solo exhibits in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) art gallery "LAB 138"
2019 exhibits in Rome art gallery "Spazio 40"
2018 exhibits at 7th edition of the Biennale Metropoli di Torino;
2018 winner of the "Cover d'artista" contest for the official program of the BNL Internationals of Italy of Tennis organized by the Italian Tennis Federation
2018 exhibits at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland);
2018 exhibits in Pisa at the Cinema Lumiere on the occasion of the contest "RONZII - ARTE IN SUBBUGLIO";
2016 exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Sapienza University of Rome;