a lot of (random) news:

March 16, 2013 Comments Off

so so so, almost a year since I’ve updated my poor website! Shame on me! I must admit that most of the actions in going on my facebook OR on my instagram.

since then I tryed some carving:

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ans some linoprint:

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since I’ve exhibited a nice triptic (in collaboration with Dirty Nico) at MF Gallery of New York for they halloween show.

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and I took part to another halloween show “Calaver’Art” , yes it was calaveras oriented, in switzerland! uh!

your flame in me

(it was always a lil’ collaboration with Dirty Nico who shaped (and worked on) the iron insterd and donate his blood for the red parts)

and I’ve made so many news tattoos (I’ve been working at “The Ten Bells” tattoo parlour of Rome, and soon I’ll be at “Turbo Zero” tattoo parlour of Nantes, in April in New York at “8 Of Swords” and in June I’ll be at “Mystery Tattoo Club” of Paris… and in July ROme again at the “Then Bells”)

I’ll soon open a “tattoo page” here on the website, but for the moment you could see all my tattoos here: http://guichotatouages.com/galerie_nicoz.html

here’s some:

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I’ve started another “one year moleskine” and in april I’ll fly to New York to have my 3solo Exhibitions with other two great artists as Aya Kakeda and Angie Mason. here’s the show facebook event.

frizzi news

May 30, 2012 Comments Off

I hate this website. I can’t stand it no more. I really don’t like its galleries and the way it looks. but for the moment I have no time (or no will?) to think to something new (but SOON, I swear!).

I’ll post so much on my facebook page, I opened a Tumblr and I still get so addicted to instagram to post all my news. so follow the links for some fresh stuff.

but today I want to write it here, to tell you that I’m featured on the lovely italian arty-fancy website named Frizzi Frizzi.

“a dream within a dream” my last show (with Ciou)

November 25, 2011 Comments Off

I’ll show my pyrographies with talented Ciou at Galerie Rue De Beauce, in Paris.

this will be my last show, I decided to take a 12 months pause from exhbitions. I need some time apart to create something new, somethings out of the blue, something taught (and engraved) with no finality.

so if you want to see my works live, well…that’s the moment.

for more infos:

Ciou-Nicoz

Into the Future

October 14, 2011 Comments Off

14 – 23 Ottobre 2011
Into the Future
14 artisti italiani scrivono la storia del pop surrealism
Tipologia: Arte Contemporanea

I campioni italiani del pop surrealismo approdano ai Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini inaugurando la mostra INTO THE FUTURE, sarà possibile ammirare opere di grandi dimensioni realizzate da alcuni degli artisti più rappresentativi del Movimento in un contesto unico come quello della Centrale Montemartini, la ex centrale elettrica dei primi del Novecento adibita a museo della scultura romana. La sala espositiva, all’ultimo piano dell’imponente edificio, offre una suggestiva vista sulla città, abbracciando idealmente l’antico con il moderno e infine con l’iper contemporaneo.

INTO THE FUTURE è una mostra antologica che presenta al pubblico i più grandi talenti del Pop Surrealism made in Italy.
Nato con l’etichetta non sempre apprezzata di Low Brow (proprio per prendere le distanze dall’arte fatta «da e per» l’élite), il Pop Surrealism ci rende spettatori di una piccola ma significativa rivoluzione. Sono gli artisti per primi, ed il pubblico subito dopo, a capire e saper leggere il tempo che viviamo, dimostrando grande preparazione ed infinito interesse nei confronti di quel che si presenta come nuovo ma immediatamente recepibile grazie a codici e sottocodici comunicativi con cui siamo costretti a convivere.
Il Pop Surrealism si pone in tutto il mondo come la corrente culturale più attuale, scardinando finalmente il concetto di arte “contemporanea”, dichiarandola semplicemente «contemporanea agli anni ’70, quindi ormai passata».
L’immaginario collettivo che viene presentato è quindi ricco di icone della nostra infanzia e adolescenza, quando non sapevamo di essere già dei target commerciali studiati dalle multinazionali. Viene offerto uno scenario ricco di apparenti contraddizioni, di specificità hollywoodiane e di gigli fiorentini. Il ritorno al piacere della tecnica più raffinata utilizzata per rappresentare il quotidiano, vede il banale che si tinge di surreale in un panorama reale ed impossibile al tempo stesso.
Degli artisti in mostra alcuni già da tempo abitano all’estero, altri non lasceranno mai l’Italia, altri ancora si sono solo recentemente affacciati ad un mondo dell’arte in continuo cambiamento, e si godono il momento, quasi inconsapevoli di vivere un fenomeno del tutto inedito, dove il pubblico ne sa più del gallerista e dove l’artista è fiero di essere un artigiano padrone delle proprie capacità.
Il Pop Surrealism è l’unico movimento che racchiude le peculiarità dell’immediato, che attraversa il significato squarciando il significante, in un perfetto seppur apparentemente impossibile connubio tra la realtà e il sogno, dove l’uno influenza l’altro nella realtà “vera” e non solo nella rappresentazione di essa.
In un’epoca diversa sarebbe stato facile mettere a tacere questo movimento da parte dei polverosi accademici difensori della propria poltrona, relegandolo ad una sottocultura, ma il nostro presente, supportato da tecnologie che rendono possibile la condivisione in tempo reale di immagini e pensieri in qualunque parte del mondo, ha reso possibile il manifestarsi di una presa di coscienza unica: non può essere relegata a sottocultura ciò che è, di fatto, accessibile a tutti come contenuti e riferimenti concettuali di critica e sarcasmo nei confronti della società di massa.
Con queste premesse ci proponiamo di analizzare il movimento Pop Surrealista italiano, definendone i poliedrici confini e indagandone le similitudini con i suoi rappresentanti californiani, ma anche le dovute differenze, andando a scoprire come le ultime generazioni si sono cibate di cultura visuale americana e giapponese moderna, traendone ispirazione ma modellandole con lo spirito del tempo.

Artista/i

Bafefit, Erica Calardo, Desiderio, El Gato Chimney, Camilla d’Errico, Gabriels, Michele Guidarini, Nicoz, Jonathan Pannacciò, Max Papeschi, Ania Tomicka, Elio Varuna, Giuseppe Veneziano, Amelia Von Grune

Curatore/i

Andrea Oppenheimer

ITALIAN POP SURREALISM

October 11, 2011 Comments Off

Birth of a Nation
dal 08/10/2011 al 02/11/2011
 

Artists: Anonymous Art, Bafefit, Nicoz Balboa, Erica Calardo, Antonella Caraceni, Luca Coser, Luciano Civettini, Camilla d’Errico, Desiderio, Dilka, El Gato Chimney, Max Ferrigno, Gabriels, Michele Guidarini, Hackatao, Hogre, Siva Le Duc, Otto Majer, Luisa Montalto, Amedea Morgan, Virginia Mori, Jonathan Pannacciò, Max Papeschi, Paolo Petrangeli, Elena Rapa, Marco Rea, Sone, Marco Tarascio, Ania Tomicka, Elio Varuna, Giuseppe Veneziano, Nicola Verlato, Amelia Von Grune, Valentina Zummo

Curator Andrea Oppenheimer

Italian Pop Surrealism is a group show that features an eclectic mix of works by our most talented Italy-based artists.

Born with the not so appreciated label of Low Brow (to keep the distances from an art realized by and for an élite), Pop Surrealism makes us aware of a small but extremely significant revolution.

It’s the artist himself (and the audience) that understands the reality in which we live in and gives us a new kind of imagery that appears as never seen before, but carries a deep link to our subconscious through the use of allegorical visions common to our collective brain.
Pop Surrealism arises in the whole world as the one and only cultural stream of our times, overclassing the so-called contemporary art, that by now refers to the Seventies, so it’s not really contemporary anymore.
This new artistic flow carries all the hallmarks of both classical and contemporary art, but manages to trascend them through a unique and refreshing personal interpretation of old and new themes.
The most refined technical skills are now used to represent the ordinary life, the everyday events that become surreal in a landscape that is real and impossibile at the same time.
The characters of our childhood and youth become so metaphors of infinity, innocence and purity on one hand, and statements of the times in which we live in on the other hand, in a balanced and unique marriage between classical technical skills and modern pop culture.
We will show you the multi-faceted nature of Pop Surrealism through the works of 40 artists. Some of them now live in other countries, others won’t ever leave Italy, many of them are newborn artists, that live this moment unaware of being part of such a great artistic revolution.
Pop Surrealism is the only artistic movement that shows the specifics of our times, showing a deeper meaning that goes beyond the representation, in a perfect even if difficult to imagine union between reality and dream, where dream is part of reality itself and not only a way to represent it visually.
In an other time, it would have been easy for dusty academics to relegate this movement to the ghettoized realms of subculture, but in an age and place where technologies give us the chance and freedom to share images and thoughts in real-time with the whole world, we witness a world-wide consciousness raising, where is mostly the audience that decides the value of an art-work, overpassing the gallery managers themselves, setting up new rules for an art form that rises from underground.
That being stated, it is our big pleasure to introduce you to the Italian Pop Surrealism movement, through an exhibition that embraces all its eclectic and original sides, its similarities and differencies with the West-coast based colleagues, exploring widely this new generation of artists grown up on a mix of American visual culture and Japanese modern culture, and yet totally capable of a personal and original interpretation of them.

Autograph!

September 17, 2011 Comments Off

I was so please this morning to find my Biffy Clyro’s poster in my mail box. The girls form Rock en Seine sent it to me. when I opened it I found that they were signed! How cool! Thank you Biffy Clyro!

Ambassadors Of The Otherworldly (at Rue De Beauce gallery)

September 16, 2011 Comments Off

I completely forgot to talk about this show I took part in Paris, shame on me!

The graphics of the poster is something (odd?) but I was in a very good company, indeed. I wish I told you before!

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