desiderio_art

I'm born in 1978 in Milan (MI), I live and work in Umbria (Italy).
In 2002 i achieved my degree in illustration at the IED (Rome).

I work in the fields of painting, illustration, installation, performance, video production and directing.
For many years I have traveled between Italy and Cuba and participated in the 54th Venice Biennale in the Cuban Pavilion (2011), two editions of the Havana Biennial (2012 and 2015) and the 4th Biennial "Fin del Mundo" in Valparaiso, Chile (2015).

My works appeared in books, newspapers and magazines such as Philip Morris, prize for the marketing”(Italy), Warner Music (Italy), Klutz(USA), Creative Company(USA), SKY(Italy), Repubblica (Italy), Miles Kelly Publishing (Essex) Ticktock Media Ltd ( London).

Recently my works have been included in the biography "Sono io Amleto"by Achille Lauro

I collaborate with M77Gallery (Milan), Colombo gallery (Milan), Strychnin Gallery (Berlin), Direktorenhaus (Berlin). I currently work with ADA Art Advisor. In 2008 I won the edition of the Italian Factory Award, 13°Cairo award finalist in 2013 (Milan) and more.

In 2009 I participated in the exhibition "Apocalypse wow!" dedicated to the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, curated by Julie Kogler, at MACRO Future in Rome together with other artists including Ron English and Obey (Shepard Fairey).
In 2011 I participated in the 54th Venice Biennale in the Cuban pavilion on the island of San Servolo, together with artists such as Alexandre Arrechea (one of Los Carpinteros), Eduardo Ponjuàn, Yoan Capote, Duvier del Dago Fernandez. In 2012 I made a large video installation titled "They win on the sky" for the eleventh edition of the Havana Biennial, inside a "guagua" (Cuban bus).
In 2013, I produced his first feature film titled "Ahora si llego!": it was the first roadmovie made entirely in Cuba to receive the support of the Cuban government. In this feature film I was aboard an old Ural sidecar with my friend Jose Balboa, touring all the Cuban provinces interviewing artists and men of culture on the island.
I was one of the artists chosen to participate in the exhibition "Genius Loci" of the fifth edition of the Pio Alferano Prize (2016) conducted by Vittorio Sgarbi of which he is artistic director, at the Castello dell'Abate in Castellabate.
After ten years since my first exhibition at the Museum CAOS of Terni, in May 2017 I presented a second exhibition always entitled "Beauty Hazard", in the public spaces of the CAOS of Terni with IndisciplinArte.
In December 2017 I realize his exhibition entitled "Nirvana", curated by Chiara Canali at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. In September 2019 realized the public project "Malebolge", curated by Lorenzo Rubini, inside the former church of San Michele Arcangelo in Amelia, during the Ameria Festival (Festival of the municipality of Amelia).
In this public project I realized some big oil paintings on canvas, inspired by the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. These paintings were custom made to be inserted into the coffers and old frames inside the former church.