BIO
El Gato Chimney was born in 1981 in Milan, where he currently lives and works.
He started his career as a self taught artist, developing an early interest in graffiti, which made him pursue a successful journey into street art, that he still cites as one of his ispirations, along with steampunk culture and surrealism.
If you allow him to take you on a not easily forgettable ride into his work, you will discover a Bosch-like world where fields made of melty pink icing goodness leave place to abandoned carnivals dripping with desolation and rust - a world seemingly unhabitated by humans, even though flying teapots and tiny metal beings call it their home.
Beware, though, as in his art nothing is as it seems and nothing is left to the case: the artist's goal is to make the beholder think and wonder instead of being a passive observer in front of the umpteenth meaningless painting.
In the end, numbers and symbols might or might not offer you a solution to the enigma, but they surely will make you want to take in every little detail of the dreamy landscapes, bursting with vivid colours and amazingly lively creatures, only waiting to tell you their own version of the story.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 DOUBLE FANTASY – Studio D'Arte Fioretti – Bergamo - Cur. Ivan Quaroni
2010 STEAM BOX – Two Windows Project – Berlin
2010 STEAM FUNFAIR – Avantgarden Gallery – Milano
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 INTO THE FUTURE – Musei Capitolini - Centrale Montemartini – Roma - Cur. Andrea Oppenheimer
2011 SANRIO FOR SMILES – Fundacio Joan Miro - Barcelona, Spain - Cur. Christian Gancitano
2011 ITALIAN POP SURREALISM – Mondo Bizzarro Gallery – Roma - Cur. Andrea Oppenheimer
2011 VULPES PILUM MUTARE – Museo Civico – Bassano Del Grappa, Vi - Cur. C. Lio
2011 BRAND NEW ART – Mambo - Villa Delle Rose – Bologna - Cur. L.Beatrice
2011 BRAND NEW ART – Museo del Palazzo della Penna – Perugia - Cur. L.Beatrice
2011 TWENTY CENTURY MIRABILIA – Avantgarden Gallery – Milano
2010 BRAND NEW ART – Museo Della Permanente – Milano
2010 HATCHING Crossing the Line – One Gallery/Guerilla Galleries – Newark, NJ - USA
2010 LA FORMA DELLE RETI – Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo da Vinci – Milano
2010 I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS – WWA gallery – Culver City, USA – Cur. Industrial Squid
2010 HUNT & GATHER - Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles, USA - Cur. Tina Ziegler
2010 AMBIGUOUS PAINTING – Galleria Spazioinmostra – Milano - Cur. Ivan Quaroni
2010 OLTRE IL MURO – Galleria Civica di Bolzano – Bolzano - Cur. Alessandro Mantovani
2009 BREAKIN WALLS – Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mantovani
2009 IL CANTO DELLA TERRA – Città di Castellamonte - Cur. Vittorio Amedeo Sacco
2009 MODART MAGAZINE GROUP SHOW – Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles, USA – Cur. Harlan Levey
2009 AUTORITRATTI 44+1 – The Don Gallery – Milano – Cur. Marina Alessi
2009 SOPRA IL SOTTO “Manhole art” – Superstudio Più – Milano - Cur. Davide Giannella
2009 URBAN SUPERSTAR – Museo D’arte Contemporanea MADRE – Napoli - Cur. David Vecchiato
2009 STREET WITHOUT WALL – Museo della Misericordia – Firenze - Cur. Chiara Canali
2008 VIA BRICK LANE E1 – Bricklane Gallery – London - Cur. Federico Fabbri
2008 EAT ME, DRINK ME, un voyage au pays des merveilles – Gallerie L’art de rien – Paris
2008 SCALA MERCALLI – Auditorium della Musica – Roma - Cur. Gianluca Marziani
2008 AMAZE/2008 – Sint-Niklaas , Belgium - Cur. Sztuka Fabryka
2008 DEN OF INIQUITY – The Rogues’ Gallery – Belfast, UK
2007 INCONTEMPORANEA 01 - Triennale di Milano – Milano
2007 PP BEAR – Art Taipei - Taipei
2006 BOVISA IN LINEA – Triennale di Milano-Bovisa – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mininno
2006 MORE – Group show – Fiera Campionaria di Milano – Milano - Cur. Maurizio Cocchi
2005 URBAN EDGE SHOW – Spazio P4 – Milano - - Cur. Bo130 e Microbo
2005 STREET VIRUS – Ready Made Studio – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mininno
Special Exhibitions
2011 FIERA ARTE GENOVA – Superego Edition, Genova, Italy
2011 BERGAMO ARTE FIERA – Studio d’arte Fioretti , Bergamo, Italy
2010 ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA – Art auction at “Casa d’aste Della Rocca” , Torino, Italy
2010 SOPRA IL SOTTO – Art auction at “CHRISTIE'S” , Palazzo Clerici, Milano, Italy
2010 ADISCO – Art auction at “SOTHEBY’S” , Palazzo Broggi, Milano, Italy
2009 ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA – Art auction at “Casa d’aste Della Rocca” , Torino, Italy
2009 VERNICE ART FAIR – Art Fair Forlì, Forlì, Italy
2008 MOTOR SHOW 2008 – Fiera Bologna – FIAT car custom, Bologna, Italy
2008 LIVE CUSTOM SHOW – Live performance at " EASTPAK ", Corso di P.ta Ticinese 46, Milano
Selected Bibliography
Books
- Hunt and Gather “Discovering New Art”
Mark Batty Publisher, 2010 USA
- StickerBomb 2
Laurence King Publishing , 2010, UK
- Los Colores del Underground
Astiberri, 2009, Spain
- Stickers 2
Gestalten Pubblishing, 2009 Germany
- Ark " The Ark project"
Idn Pubblishing, 2009 Taiwan
- Max and the Siamese Twins
M&TST pubblishing, 2009 USA
- AutoriTratti 44+1
Marina Alessi, Valecchi Editore 2009, Italy
- StickerBomb
Laurence King Publishing, 2008, UK
- Arte Contemporanea Vol.7 “Ambienti”
Repubblica-L’Espresso, Electa 2008, Italy
- The Art of Rebellion 2, “World of Urban Art Activism”
Publikat 2006, Germany
- Street Virus “ Dalle lettere agli sticker”
Ready-Made 2006, Italy
- Izastikup
Drago Arts & Cominication 2005, Italy
- Sopra il sotto, Tombini Art raccontano la città cablata
2009, Italia
- Scala Mercalli "Il terremoto della street art italiana"
Drago Arts & Cominication 2008, Italia
- “Sold-Out” Urban Art & Recycling Style
Silvana Editore 2008, Italia
Magazines
- Revista Goo
2010, Argentina
- Color Ink Book
2010, USA
- Fefè Magazine
N.08, 2009, Italy
- Modart
N.19, 2008, Germany
- IdN “ The Art Directors Issue”
2007 , Hong Kong
- Belio “ U.S.A.”
2007, Spain
