Giuliano Montisci

pseudonym “Gix”

born 1968 in Sardinia / Italy.

A self-taught artist, I made my first oil paintings before I was 10 years old. Later I had a brief encounter with another world that taught me the craft of the quantity surveyor and I worked as a technician and draftsman in archaeological excavations.

As I could not deny my nature, I soon dedicated myself exclusively to fine arts. I opened my first artistic studio with the painter Sandro Mandis on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia where they created tattoos, sculptures and paintings.
At the end of the 90s, I spent cold winters on the island of Tenerife, where I painted large murals and met my future partner Jeannette.
In 2001 I moved permanently to Tenerife and opened the doors of my new artistic studio in Puerto de la Cruz / Canary Islands.
In 2008, my studio in the old fishermen’s quarter had become too small. I opened “Manufactum” in the same city, a Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery in a 240 m2 space open to the public where those interested could get in touch directly with art and its creators.
For my friend, the German scholar and author Dieter Elendt I have illustrated about 13 books and several magazine publications to date.
The drawings for the book “Der Reizende Teufel” about the p...

In my own Studio Gallery Manufactum, Puerto de la Cruz / Canary Islands from 2002-2022.