Chico Molo
London, Central, United Kingdom
I was born in Jamaica in 1960. I'm a Mixed Media Artist, living and working between central London a...
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Chico Molo
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I was born in Jamaica in 1960. I'm a Mixed Media Artist, living and working between central London and Italy.
Giles Bernard - "Chico's work exposes the endless, unlimited sides to a city; it's beauty and it's ugliness, it's limitations and also it's possibilities, the way people move within a city and the way that a city moves people. In the Bling City series, Chico puts to work the materials that the city offers up to him- found materials, sweet wrappers, corrugated cardboard, nails, pieces of wood, glass and uses them to focus back on the city itself. At first, the pictures suggest that everything that glitters could be gold. Chico doesn't shy from showing a city at it's most beautiful, but he also forces us to look harder, stripping back the layers, and revealing the grain, textures and patterns that surround us. Elsewhere in the collection, his work in wood builds on the theme-burnt, scraped, cut, scarred and scratched, the material itself leads the artist, giving depth and feeling into the images. All the pieces reflect nature at work in an urban environment and the city's continual shifts and changes as new layers are heaped upon old. But they also remind us what never changes, as continual wear and tear, a kind of urban er...
BA, Fine Art, Printmaking and Photo-Media. Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London WC1.
1995-98
Art Foundation course
The City Lit, Holborn London, WC1
Beyond Skin/ Identities 1998
Culture vs Nature - Richmix Arts Centre
Bethnal Green Road London 2008
Bling city and HumanTraffic
The Cable Street Centre
Cable street, London E5 2009
Solo exhibition in Bel Canto in Barga Gallery
Barga 2017
Group exhibition Biennale of Contemporary Art in Massa and Montignoso, Tuscany , Italy 2017
Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lake Como
Italy 2018
Biennale of Contemporary Art in Massa
Tuscany Italy 2018
Collective exhibition of Contemporary Art
Galleria Farini, Bologna , 2018
The Choises of Puntelli Tour in Carrara, Italy ,2018
The Choises of Puntelli in Gubbio, Italy, 2018
The Choises of Puntelli Special Edition in
Anghiari, Italy ,2018
The Choises of Puntelli in Tivoli, Italy, 2018
Exhibition PACE & AMORE
GIORGIO MONDADORI CATALOGUE in
The Big Mosque in Rome 2018
Infinity Accademy Project in
Sabbioneta, Italy, GIORGIO MONDADORI CATALOGUE, 2019
Exhibition Barga’s Journal, Collective
BARGA 2019