GIOELE AMARO

Gioele Amaro (Italian, b. 1986) lives and works in Paris and Milan.

Gioele Amaro defines himself as a digital painter who works with pixels instead of a paintbrush. His digital compositions printed on canvas push the boundaries of what is traditionally conceived as a ‘painting’. Amaro then meticulously reworks each canvas, applying several layers of varnish. By bringing his own touch to this original technique, Amaro shifts figurative representation into the abstract and captures the essence of the subject from real life. His art emanates from the virtual world, entering reality as a physical object that challenges the very notion of what a painting is supposed to be.

Amaro’s digital paintings straddle a domain between the real and virtual worlds, a borderland where time and space are in constant flux. Beyond this intermingling of the real and the virtual, the interesting thing about his art is its citational complexity, featuring forms and allusions that connect his oeuvre with the continuum of art history.

Gioele Amaro is an Italian artist who studied architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria in Italy, and then obtained his master at the National School of Architecture in Paris La Villette. Having originally been trained as an architect, Amaro has retained from his formal education a fascination for materials and surfaces. Amaro took part in group exhibitions at Almine Rech in Brussels, with Candid House Projects in London, and at the High Art Gallery in Paris. A solo presentation of his paintings was held at Galerie Balice Hertling in 2018. Amaro has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and China.