
Jacopo Piemontesi
Pittore
Torino, Italy
Biografia
My name is Jacopo Piemontesi born in Turin in 1990 graduated at the Accademia Albertina in
Turin, my artistic research, which has already begun in the years of my adolescence, it develops
around the human figure, in particular it focuses on the face. My work and plastic artist,
draftsman, painter and sculptor, is imbued with artistic discoveries of the greats of modern and
contemporary art, especially Picasso, Basquiat and Kurt Cobain. From preparatory drawings
I emerge one mastery of the stroke that upsets the classical canons to arrive at a figuration that
favors the deformation of facial features (‘clin d’oeil’ to Picasso of course) to the classical schemes
of the ritratio which is also present as an academic exercise. My pictorial work on canvas with
acrylic, it is bolder and freer, with a strong expressive sensitivity. My masked faces find
inspiration in Basquiat’s works to approach Kurt Cobain in the representation of the puppet, for
example example, a theme dear to the artist of Nirvana. From an interview given to me recently
I said: “my works are too disturbing, difficult to understand. As a plastic artist I do not leave
out the sculpture, the whose subject is always the human face. Faces that pursue a journey into
Etruscan works with decisive and strong features, faces that seem to spring from books of
sculptural photographs by Mimmo Jodice. My artistic career it is in its infancy, however in
rapid progress, which allows us to foresee the place for sun in the art world. My “will be” by
Leibniz is around the corner. Look forward to it with enthusiasm. I find that my art is not too
much twisted, it is very expressive, extremely expressive. I can immerse myself in the XC
character with great skill and decipher his music and painting with skill. Having said that I do
understand that I know his life very well, look for anecdotes (when he was little he drew with
his grandmother …) in short, the special things of his child hood and adolescence that have
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