Description
‘My Grandma is Geronimo #2’ by Carlo Alberto Rastelli
Artist: Carlo Alberto Rastelli
Title: ‘My Grandma is Geronimo #2’
Medium: Oil and acrylic on panel
Dimensions: 10″ x 8″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Born in Parma in 1986. He graduated at Brera Art Academy in Milan and he attended Art Academy of Riga, thanks to Erasmus program. In 2016 he attended the Glo’Art art residence in Lanaken (Belgium) and in 2018 he attended the SIM art residency in Reykievik, Iceland. He partecipated in several group shows, including: Surreal Salon 15, a curate by Kelsey Livingston and Marco Mazzoni, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (USA); Cornucopia, curated by Tim Maclean, WOW x WOW Gallery (2022); beati anni del castigo, curated by Eva Comuzzi, Marina Bastianello Gallery, Mestre (VE); Abecedario d’artista
(2021), Palazzo del Governatore, Parma; Pittori fantastici nella valle del Po, curated by Camillo Langone, PAC Ferrara (2020); Ex Voto – per arte ricevuta, curated by Angelo Crespi, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze (2019), Zodiaco, curated by Daina Maja Titonel, MAC Gallery, Roma (2018), We are the ones-vol.1, CGK Gallery di Copenaghen (2017); Paesaggi, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano (2016); Della natura della figura e il volto, curated by Daniela Ferrari, Palazzo Trentini, Trento (2015); 6 visioni, curated by Ivan Quaroni, Galleria Leonardvs, Sestri Levante (2015); La Bellezza fa 40 – i 40 migliori artisti under 40,
Castello Carlo V, Lecce (2015); Pathosformel, edited by Alberto Mattia Martini, Galleria De Magistris, Milan 2014.
He partecipated to several art fairs: Affordable Art Fair Bruxelles (2023), Grand’Art Fair Milano (2019), WopArt Fair Lugano (2017), Karlsruhe Art Fair (2016), Art Fair / Fair for modern and contemporary art Cologne (2016), SetUp Art Fair Bologna (2016 – 2018). In 2012 he won the Mondadori Art Prize (Painting section, category Academy). In 2023 he’s been awarded by the curator, Mauro Carrera, for the prize Arte in Arte e Mestieri XX+III. He’s been selected for the following prizes: Arteam Cup 2020 and 2023, Exibart Prize 22/23, Combat Prize 2021 and 2019, Premio Ora 2019 and 2015, Premio Lissone 2014, Premio Mantegna Cercasi 2013, Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2011.
His last solo shows is Loop, curated by Silvia Rossi, at Galleria San Lorenzo Arte, Poppi (AR).
He lives and works in Parma.
(Artist Statement)
My last work is about time which I have analysed in two ways. First of all, through the choice of subjects, taken from old photos and visually translated into oil and acrylic (even if partly censored by perspective breakthroughs). These breakthroughs trace the characters’ silhouettes and open a kind of window on the image, intended as an archetypal idea of time, made up of stars, galaxies and black holes. Secondly, the temporal dimension emerges from the material used, i.e. the ?r tree wood, whose veins mark the passing of the years in life.