Claudio Parentela lives and works in Italy as a painter, illustrator, mail artist & cartoonist. Preferring the black and white rough, sketchy format his artwork attempts to transcend the barriers of form and dimensions, focussing on erotic outbursts and sensual ferocity. The intensity reflected in most of his artwork seek to dissolve the boundaries of the real and the unreal, of sanity and insanity. That is also probably why he prefers to leave his paintings untitled - such borderline sensuality remains strictly an emotion and does not encourage barriers of nomenclature. 

Parentela has collaborated with several webzines, magazines and with many publishers in Italy and abroad, and his portfolio includes work done for Lavirint, Sunburn,  Chance, Lucid Moon, Moon Magazine,Kastello,Mani Art, Pintalo De Verde, Art Life, ApArte, The Lummox Journal, The Benway Institute, La Cafetiere Editions, The Cherotic Revolutionary,etc. In 1999 he was invited to the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenja).

Exhibitions of his work have been held at The Association Microcosmo (Torino - Italy ); The Girasole(Villa Basilica - Italy); The Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Spain); The Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam- Netherlands), and in the coming months he will be holding exhibitions at The Gallery Soqquadro (Rome) and   La Cueva (Milan).

In the music scene scene, he has collaborated with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal & Punk   music. He has also illustrated stories and poems by Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, Mark Sonnenfeld, etc..

His books of illutrations and comics include "The Slavering Rat" and "The Halved Nightmare" (Innovation Studio-BGA Comix - Italy), "Fashion Robot" (David Lasky-Seattle/USA), "Stories" and "Il Bombarolo"(Progetto Siderurgiko-Italy), "The Sacrificial Lamb and the hanged Salamander at the Patè 666"(Medicina Nucleare-Italy), "Claudio Parentela"(Romantika Productions-Italy), "Eudemoni" and "Small Black Trilogy"(Poems of Alberto Rizzi and Cristiano Quadalti, illustrations by Claudio Parentela-Criatu Productions-Italy) etc.

He may be contacted at:

Claudio Parentela

via F. Crispi n. 79

88100 Catanzaro - Italy

Tel: 0961-744087

e-mail address: c_parentela@libero.it

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