DAMIANO SPELTA

Damiano Spelta was born in Milan in 1966. Over twenty years of a diverse artistic journey, his art is first and foremost an idea and then a product: assemblages, designs, airbrush paintings on surfaces of all kinds, boat hulls, helmets, cars, and more. His art is Dadaist in its ideological conception and Pop Art in its irreverent irony. It is not intended to be a mere classification into movements or pre-packaged canons, but rather an acknowledgement of the countless and multifaceted capabilities of an artist who seeks to play with object-works to transform the obvious into the unexpected, rooted in a reflection on contemporaneity as the sole dimension of thought.

There are many ways to interpret the meaning of life; Damiano Spelta’s is metaphorically ironic and provocative, sarcastic and scathing. Through his peculiar language he enthralls and fascinates us, often leaving us amused but above all surprisingly contemplative in front of works that lead us to social reflection.

An experimenter with materials and techniques, art and design blend together without conformism. His source of inspiration comes from reflections on the contemporary world and its contradictions. Whether it’s a painting or a design object, often of considerable size, the artist confronts us with our obsessions, our weaknesses, our obsessions with identifiable status symbols that represent who we “would like to be” rather than who we really are.