Vincenzo Suscetta
/ Italy

 

Vincenzo Suscetta was born in Turin in 1987, but he is
originally from Venosa (Potenza) and lives in Berlin. He is a
painter, illustrator and set designer, with forays into writing
and art in urban space. He graduated from the Brera academy
in Milan in 2012. For some years now he has been working
by mixing the contemporary languages of illustration with
a syncretic and spurious idea of imagery: almost fluorescent
colours reminiscent of hip hop and the acetate fabrics of the
1980s and 1990s, decorations that appear to come as much
from the mists of time as from the walls of a contemporary
metropolis, and somatic features that cite one of the most
controversial and “spurious” cases in the history of art. His
subjects seem to refer to the funerary portraits of the Fayyum
(1st — 3rd century AD), where the practice of mummification
meets the Roman passion for somatism, in faces that show all
the generic and cultural mixes possible in the Mediterranean.
A subtly anti-classical dimension, obscure and joyful at the
same time, which Suscetta makes his own in a systematically
cross-cultural idea of art.