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Claudio Parentela

in-nyc.com is honored to display the weird yet wonderful artworks of Claudio Parentela of Catanzaro, Italy. Claudio is an illustrator and cartoonist who is very active in the international underground scene. These works are pen and ink artworks drawn on paper. All untitled. All executed in 2002. The actual size of each is 21cm x 30 cm.

Claudio collaborates with many, 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 D¹Uovo, 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 Man¹s Rainbow, The White Buffalo Gazzette, Šand many, many others.

His strange artworks appear in many, many art galleries throughout the web. In these last months he has exhibited his artworks at the association Microcosmo (Torino ); at the Girasole (Villa Basilica-Italy); at the Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Espain); at the Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam), and in the next months he'll exhibit at the Gallery Soqquadro (Rome ) and at "La Cueva" (Milan).

He collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal, punx music. He has illustrated stories and poems of: Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, Mark Sonnenfeld.

For various publishers he has realized some booklets of illustrations and of comics:"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). e-mail c_parentela@libero.it