CLAUDIO PARENTELA BIO
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BIO: 

Illustrator, mail artist, cartoonist, very active in the 
international underground scene.

His strange artworks are in many, many art galleries 
in the immense web.

Past Exhibitions:
The Association Microcosmo(Torino)
the Girasole (Villa Basilica-Italy)
the Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Espain)
the Galerie Slaphanger(Amsterdam)
During the 1999 he was guest at the Break 21 Festival 
in Ljubljana(Slovenja).

Future Exhibitions:
Gallery Soqquadro (Rome)
"La Cueva" (Milan)

He participates to all the mail art 
projects/shows that he knows.

He collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial,
noise, metal, punx music. 


PUBLICATIONS:

Magazine and Publishers:
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 Gazzette, and many, many other again.
Illustrations for fiction and poems:
Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi,
Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows,
Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, Mark Sonnenfeld.

Illustrations and Comic Books:
"The Slavering Rat", "The Halved Nightmare"
(Innovation Studio-BGA Comix-Italy)
"Fashion Robot" 
(David Lasky-Seattle/USA)
"Stories" and "Il Bombarolo"
(Progetto Siderurgiko-Italy)
"The Sacrificial Lamb and the hanged Salamander at the Patè 666"
(Medicina Nucleare-Italy)
"Claudio Parentela"
(Romantika Productions-Italy)
"Eudemoni" and "Small Black Trilogy"
(Poems of Alberto Rizzi and of Cristiano Quadalti, 
illustrations of Claudio Parentela-Criatu Productions-Italy).
"Jeanne Dark you got Balls" and "The Frogs'Ballet"
(Self-produced)
"Black Kisses and Other Stories", "The Book of Secrets"
(La Cafetiere Editions-Belgium)