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Giulio Baistrocchi
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Biography
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Was born the 21/04/79 in Rome.My extended family has been my major trauma and blessing. Two aristocratic families with a strong history and cosmoplite, with english (distantly related to the Chambers family, in the navy for centuries and a painting in the Greenwich maritime museum), peruvian( my ancestors had gold mines in Peru), polish(my family came from poland in the year 1000) and Brazilian. My grandfather was a diplomat and went to a concentration (with his family and my father was 2) camp in Japan because he did not wanted to be under Mussolini?Ts rule after the shift of alliances. My mothers s very old family had enormous estates in tuscany,and glorious past as rulers, Pope?Ts generals. Both were ruined by the war, and mourned for the bygone past, my mother became alcoholic and my father ruined his diplomatic career for aristocratic pride, and I think this helped the growth of his fatal cancer. My inheritence has been a burden for many years especially as a son of a diplomat I had no roots,and difficulties in socialising.Went to posh french schools in Brazil, and Rome but I felt I had nothing in common with my spoilt fellow students . I did not suffer from my extended family while we were abroad and was not so outkast, and on my return to Europe I felt it was boring and tedious until and Brazil was escape to aristo pride self pity,arrogance, and a memento that whatever happens we must put a brave face and be optimist and happy.
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Statement
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my work deal with the microcosmos ans macrocosmos.The microcosmos is my subconsciousness, free from rational selfish arrogance.The macrosmos is wild nature, and not the trimmed humanised and rationalised nature. I use the amazon as a symbol of a flamboyant, exuberant yet fragile nature that overgrows everything almost like a green monster, eating and digesting everything. life and death, dance a syncopated samba, like man amd woman(or in ,my case passive man with active man) in a sexual frenzy. THis beautiful green monster is scary because we are afraid of loosing control,yet fragile because as soon as the forest is
cultivated it get sterile after a few years.The micro and macro are linked, our obsession with rationaly is destroying ourselves and the amazon, destroying the amazon is the desire of rationality to destroy subconsciousness
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Exhibitions
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Education
1999 BaccalaurA"at Litteraire LyAA"A" Chateaubriand Rome
97/o1 private lessons at porta blu by painter Alberto Parres
99 2001 atended scuola libera del nudo,academia belle arti, via di ripetta Rome
99 2001atented La Sapienza , Oriental Languages (mandarin)
2001/ 2004 ba fine arts Middlessex University
Biography
1998 duo painting show and performance with Alberto Parres at Gramma?Ts cultural association Rome
1999 solo painting show at Porta Blu
2001 collective at Middlessex University Wood Green
2002 solo at Foundry, Old Street
2003 collaboration for a set at London school of film
2004/06 collective. Truman Brewery Brick Lane
2004/07 collective at the Festival dei Popoli Mediterranei Bisceglie
2005/04 solo Hammersmith Information Centre
2005/10 solo at the Bistrot Udine
2006/02 collective EOC European Orchid show Padova
2006/04 collective Pordenone
2006/05 solo at Tiziano Terzani international Litterature prize, Vicino lontano Udine Italy
2006/o6 performace with Area odeon (Torino)in Udine
2006/07 participated to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Villa Manin Codroipo
2006/09 solo Waiting White @ Mirror Udine
2006/10 solo @ Smile Udine
2007/03 solo @ Vicino Lontano Udine
2007/04 collective at Kulturnidom Gorizia
2007/05 Kulturnidom Ljubiana Slovenia
2007/07 collective London.uk/ud @ 3g arte gallery Udine
2007/08 collective Socchieve
2007/09 solo al quadrato dell arte gallery udine
2007/10 collective una linea non A" una frontiera(one line is not a frontier) Maiano Castle Susans
2007/10 art event organised by Paul van Dijk Cafe Fantasio (AMP) Amsterdam Holland
2007/10 solo @ Snaidero?Ts showroom San DonA? di piave
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Next Artist: Jasko Caus
