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Fupete is a multifaceted italian visual artist known for his abstract and rough approach to painting, illustration and installation and for his international networking activity. He has realized solo exhibitions, live performances and projects from Mexico City to Barcelona to Sao Paulo. Fupete was born 1975. Today, when he is not traveling around the world, you can find him working in the countryside just 30 minutes from Pisa airport.
Fupete è un poliedrico artista visivo di origini toscane conosciuto per il suo approccio astratto e ruvido alla pittura, all’illustrazione e all’installazione e per la sua attività internazione di networking. Ha realizzato mostre personali, live performance e progetti da Città del Messico a Barcellona a San Paolo in Brasile. Fupete è nato nel 1975. Oggi, quando non è in giro per il mondo, puoi trovarlo a lavorare in campagna ad appena 30 minuti dall’aereoporto di Pisa.
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Fupete (Italy, 1975)
solo exhibitions
2013 “sin título”, Mitte, Barcelona, upcoming
2012 “matad caballo amarillo”, Vértigo, Mexico City
2012 “brucia”, ROJO, Milano
2009 “jolly roger”, Since.Upian, Paris
2008 “head empty”, ROJO, Milano
2008 “tierra y azul”, Kong, Mexico City
2008 “punkie totalista”, ROJO, Barcelonamonographic books
2008 “Punkie Totalista”, Fupete, 240 pages, ROJO, ISBN 978-84-6121-408-2
2008 “Animal Collective”, Fupete and JackLaMotta, 96 pages, Drago ISBN 978-88-8849-323-7live performances
2012 “oscure luci colorate”, audio visual performance, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo, Montescaglioso
2012 “Foco Theory RMX”, audio visual concert, Lucania Film Festival, Pisticci
2012 “segnando sogni”, visual performance, Collinarea Festival, Lari, upcoming
2012 “BAU”, live painting, Lu.C.C.A. Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca
2012 “NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival”, live arts, MIS Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo
2011 “Strati Graphie”, visual performance, GAMC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Viareggio
2011-12 “Foco Theory”, audio visual concert, various locations
2008 “Out”, live painting, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2007 “squared”, live painting, Colophon, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourggroup exhibitions
2012 “NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival”, MIS Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo
2010 “Artstars”, Phillips de Pury, London
2009 “ocho”, ROJO, Barcelona & Milano
2009 “out 3″, giant billboards sponsored by J&B, Barcelona
2008 “Scala Mercalli underground”, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma
2006 “driveme”, Invaliden1, Berlin and KBB, Barcelona
2005 “golden”, Urbis Artium, San Francisco and “gold”, Stay Gold, New York
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We have a lot of limits there. It’s far away from everything and this brings you a lot of limits in a certain way. When I do workshops with kids I try to teach them that limits take you to freedom, you know? If you know the limits, you know what you have to do to be free. — Fupete, So Vast is Art, Sao Paulo 2012
↑ photo courtesy Giselle Galvão