Tommaso Starace

Politically Incorrect Art.
Excerpt from the Parresiarte Manifesto
A void seems to have seduced the souls of artists, conformed to the other-directed flattening of dissidence. Deprived of the art of opposing the barbarism of state abuses and engaged in pleasing the funders of commonplaces. Indifferent and complicit aphasia on canvas and in the square.
Art is intimately linked to freedom, as creativity draws from the source of freedom of expression. In tyrannical epoch, art represents the inalienable part of unlimited human creativity and the will for truth and freedom.
Long live the free gesture, instinct, and the irrational that exorcise the creative immobilism of authoritarian periods, but the historical moment requires creatively reaffirming freedom and truth, as critical thinking and doubt, foundational elements of reason, are adrift today.
We reject the schemes of political opportunism; we know we will be attacked, but we do not desist from the desire for a society based on non-authoritarian principles, and we use expressiveness as a means of human emancipation and its free political imagination.
Placing ourselves in the groove of the ancient virtue of parrhesia, from a position of subalternity, we have the courage of truth and...

Bachelor of Communication
University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy
Year: 2008

Diploma in Photography and Advertising Graphics
Casanova/Caracciolo Institute
Year: 2003

- Featured Artist at HANP, Naples, Italy
Years: 2023 and 2024