the pen and ink artwork of claudio parentela
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about claudio parentela
Illustrator, mail artist and cartoonist, Claudio Parentela is very active in the international underground scene. He collaborates with many zines, magazines and with many publishers in Italy and around the world including:
- Stripburger
- Lavirint
- Sunburn
- The Cherotic Revolutionary
- Chance
- Lucid Moon
- Malefact
- Sick Puppy
- Pitchfork
- Edgar
- Cabezabajo
- Que Suerte
- Kastello
- Mani Art
- Pintalo De Verde
- Art Life
- ApArte
- Out
- Germinal
- Stampa Alternativa
- La Cafetiere Editions
- The Benway Institute
- Phony Lid Pubblications
- Unwound
- Moon Magazine
- Staplegun
- The Lummox Journal
- Untergrundblatte
- Vitriol
- Entmoot
- Mineshaft
- Evasion
- Fagorgo
- Kerosene
- Lo Sciacallo Elettronico
- Balkan Spirit
- Liberazione.Net
- Don Juan
- Arti(e) Rumori
- Ultrazine
- Rorschach
- Ghetto Blaster
- Helter Skelter
- Emozioni
- Gibbering Madness
- Bolle di Cartone
- Labour of Love
- ZZZzine
- Bianco D'Uovo
- Bries
- Ratriot
- All About Fucking
- Kami Zine
- PUS!
- Roktober
- Bathtub Gin
- Experimental Forest
- Stardust Memories
- Funtime Comix
- Spaghetti
- Plop
- Topaz & Psichedelica
- Crimson Leer
- Joey and the Black Boots
- Blind Man's Rainbow
- The White Buffalo Gazzette
- and many, many others as well.
During 1999 he was guest at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenja).
His strange artworks are in many art galleries on the web. He has exhibited his work at the association Microcosmo (Torino); at the Girasole (Villa Basilica, Italy); at the Tabula Rasa (Barcellona, Spain); at the Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and in the coming months he has exhibitions at the Gallery Soqquadro (Rome) and at "La Cueva" in Milan. He partcipates avidly in all the mail art projects/shows that he knows about.
Claudio also collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal and punk music. He has 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
He has produced some booklets of illustrations and comics for various publishers such as:
- "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 of Cristiano Quadalti, illustrations of Claudio Parentela - Criatu Productions - Italy).
- "Jeanne Dark you got Balls" and "The Frogs' Ballet" (Self-produced).
- "Black Kisses and Other Stories" and "The Book of Secrets" (La Cafetiere Editions-Belgium).
During the past few years he's been an unmissable presence in many zines, magazines, and art galleries on the web.
Contact:
via milano n.10
88100 catanzaro
italy
telephone:0961-744087
e-mail: c_parentela@libero.it