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D!VE201. D!VED!VE is an Irish visual artist. Originally from Cork, he studied Graphic Design at the Limerick School of Art & Design. In pursuit of further artistic development, he traveled to Berlin where he used his skills in visual communications combined with a passion for screen print to develop his practice as a printmaker and a creator. D!VE began his artistic journey as teenager heavily influenced by street art culture, he was drawn in by the lawlessness but he stayed for the creative outlet...and the smell of the paint. D!VE's artistic practice focuses on creating snapshots of moments that never happened. Visualising objects disassembling in zero gravity to create highly detailed images outside the limitations of traditional composition, revealing components and structures that would be otherwise hidden depending on the angle. This concept is fueled by Picasso’s words, ‘Every act of creation begins as an act of destruction’. Destruction, deconstructed. D!VE’s focus on shattering historical statues is derived from the notion that these figures represent societies at their cultural peak. Great Roman & Greek philosophers, warriors and Gods frozen in time emphasise the power of humanity. The fractured statues represent today’s fractured society. A divided world of people contrasting from far right to far left, where peoples unwavering belief in the most outlandish conspiracy theories would make the most rational thinker question their sanity, where having all of the worlds information at our fingertips made us vacuous.
Solo218. SoloRome, italy 1982. Devourer of comics and pop culture, he discovered the world of graffiti at the high school. After, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, under the guidance of Michele Cossyro, he transformed his way of expressing himself through painting on canvas, experimenting with classic techniques and moving his language from the typical writing lettering to the figurative. In 2008 he graduated with full marks, interviewing Ronnie Cutrone in New York. Subsequently Solo, combines the world of graffiti, made of spray cans, with the pop figures that he fixed on canvas during his studies, making superheroes in crisis appear on the walls of Rome, which will remain the hallmark of his artistic research. Raised with the values of the heroes encountered in comics, he amplifies those teachings by transferring them to the walls of cities and thus making them available to everyone. Over the last 15 years he has painted on walls and exhibited his works in numerous important galleries, from Paris to Prague, up to Satka in Russia, where in 2017, he was chosen together with Diamond, with whom he shares the studio, to represent Italy at the international street art biennial, and in Miami, where in 2013 he exhibited at Art Basel. At the same time as his artistic production with walls, canvases, sculptures and silk-screen prints, he brings his experience by teaching in schools, prisons and healthcare facilities. Over the years he has collaborated with underground realities such as Respect Project, with which he creates clothing, and with the largest international brands, including Valentino with a capsule in 2016, Marvel-Disney, Warner Bros and Panini, thanks to the global diffusion of cinecomics, and Louis Vuitton, which commissioned a series of hand-painted trunks between 2019 and 2020
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