Artist Claudio Parentela says:

"[My] strange artworks are in many, many art galleries on the immense web. In recent months [I've exhibited at] the Association Microcosmo (Torino, Italy); the Girasole (Villa Basilica, Italy); the Tabula Rasa (Barcelona, Spain); and the Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam, Netherlands). In coming months [I'll] exhibit at the Gallery Soqquadro in Rome and at La Cueva in Milan.

"[My 'zine and magazine credits include:] Stripburger, Lavirint, Sunburn, The Cherotic Revolutionary, Chance, Lucid Moon, Malefact, Sick Puppy, Pitchfork, Edgar, Cabezabajo, Que Suerte, Kastello, Mani Art, Pintalo De Verde, Art Life, ApArte, Out, Germinal, Stampa Alternativa, La Cafetiere Editions, The Benway Institute, Phony Lid Publications, Unwound, Moon Magazine, Staplegun, The Lummox Journal, Untergrundblatte, Vitriol, Entmoot, Mineshaft, Evasion, Fagorgo, Kerosene, Lo Sciacallo Elettronico, Balkan Spirit, Liberazione.Net, Don Juan, Arti(e)Rumori, Ultrazine, Rorschach, Ghetto Blaster, Helter Skelter, Emozioni, Gibbering Madness, Bolle di Cartone, Labour of Love, ZZZzine, Bianco D'Uovo, Bries, Ratriot, All About Fucking, Kami Zine, PUS!, Roktober, Bathtub Gin, Experimental Forest, Stardust Memories, Funtime Comix, Spaghetti, Plop, Topaz&Psichedelica, Crimson Leer, Joey and the Black Boots, Blind Man's Rainbow, The White Buffalo Gazette, and many more. During 1999 [I] was a guest at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

"[I also] collaborate with various music labels and bands (industrial, noise, metal, punk). [I've] illustrated the stories and poems of: Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, and Mark Sonnenfeld.

"For various publishers [I've] realized booklets of illustrations and of comics, including: The Slavering Rat and The Halved Nightmare (Innovation Studio-BGA Comix, Italy); Fashion Robot (David Lasky, Seattle); Stories and Il Bombarolo (Progetto Siderurgiko, Italy); The Sacrificial Lamb and The Hanged Salamander at the Paté 666 (Medicina Nucleare, Italy); Claudio Parentela (Romantika Productions, Italy); Eudemoni and Small Black Trilogy (poems of Alberto Rizzi and Cristiano Quadalti, illustrations by Claudio Parentela-Criatu Productions, Italy); Jeanne Dark You Got Balls and The Frogs' Ballet (self-produced); and Black Kisses and Other Stories and The Book of Secrets (La Cafetiere Editions, Belgium)."

Contact Claudio Parentela:

Claudio Parentela
Via Milano n.10
88100 Catanzaro-Italy
Telephone: 0961-744087

E-mail:  c_parentela@libero.it