Born in Catanzaro (1962-Italy), where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, digital painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, textile artist, freelance journalist, tarotologist, …Active for many years on the international contemporary art scene.

”…sometimes I chase myself, tying myself up in my thousand knots. Threads that envelop me and turn into black and desolate veins. Eyes that brush against me and whisper words that I have never said to myself. I run I run without ever falling almost flying and I see my naked body covered with a blanket you gave me so long ago the contrast is now resolved everything is visible I was born in a cloud above the distant hill… ”

”… my art is Freaky, stylish, anarchic, colourful, raw and dreamy, romantic, linear, twisted. …”so he says about his art……it’s contemporary with a touch, sometimes smooth, other times strong, weird, anarchic, schizophrenic….like me…..”