Francesco D'Isa | |
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Born | Firenze, Italy | 22 September 1980
Known for | Painting, Digital Art, Literature |
Website | gizart.com |
Francesco D'Isa is an Italian artist, writer, journalist, and art curator.
He studied philosophy in Florence, Italy. He is a self-taught artist. [1] He is a pioneer of digital art in Italy, but his drawing abilities let him work with traditional media as well. [2] He was the co-founder of the Italian art and literature magazine "Mostro," [3] where he published his first artworks. After that, his digital and traditional artworks were featured in many magazines around the world, like "Expose III", Ballistic Publishing (US); "Pixel Surgeons: Extreme Manipulation of the Figure in Photography", Mitchell Beazley Art & Design, Octopus ed. (UK); "Black Magic, White Noise", [4] "Illusive 3", [5] Die Gestalten Verlag (Germany); "Design 360°", SanDu Culture ed. (China); GQ magazine [6] (Italy); Inside Art (Italy). [7] His accolades in contemporary art practice has been recognised with several art prizes. He has exhibited internationally from Italy, [8] [9] [10] Germany, [11] Holland, [12] Switzerland, [13] England, US, Australia, Russia, and South America. His theory and practice have been extended as a workshop leader and lecturer in multimedia, especially in the field of AI, where he works both as an artist and a theorist. [14] In 2007, he became "Pornpope" founding the porn-artistic collective Pornsaints. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] Francesco D'Isa serves as the editorial director for the cultural magazine L’Indiscreto [20] and contributes writings and illustrations to various magazines, both in Italy and abroad. He is a professor of Illustration and Contemporary Plastic Techniques at LABA (Brescia).
In 2010, his comic "I., a comic drawn by everyone" become a regular blog [21] of the Italian online newspaper Il Post ; in November 2011 "I." has been published as an illustrated book by Nottempo (Italy). [22] In 2013, his short stories has been published in "Selezione Naturale", Effequ (Italy) [23] and "Toscani Maledetti", [24] Piano B (Italy) and his short comic "Liebe macht nicht frei, baby!" as ebook for Retina Comics. [25] His first novel, "Anna - storia di un palindromo" has been published in 2014 by Effequ (Italy), [26] his second novel, "Ultimo piano (o porno totale)", by Imprimatur (Italy) in 2015, [27] the third "La Stanza di Therese", by Tunué (Italy) in 2017. [28] His philosophical essay "L'assurda evidenza" [29] was published by Tlon Editions in 2022. Most recently, he released the graphic novel "Sunyata" [30] with Eris Edizioni in 2023, one of the first comic books created with AI published in Italy, [31] and the essay "La rivoluzione algoritmica delle immagini" [32] for Sossella Editore (2024).