An Italian illustrator, mail artist and cartoonist. Parentela is very active in the international underground scene. He collaborates with many magazines and publishers in Italy and around the world,like: Stripburger, Lavirint, Sunburn, The Cherotic Revolutionary, Chance, Lucid Moon, Malefact, Sick Puppy and a few dozen more.
During 1999 he was guest at the Break 21 Festival in Ljubljana(Slovenja). His strange art can be found in many online art galleries. Recently he has exhibited his works at the association Microcosmo(Torino), the Girasole(Villa Basilica-Italy), the Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Espain) and Galerie Slaphanger(Amsterdam). Soon Parentela will exhibit at the Gallery Soqquadro in Rome and and at ”La Cueva” in Milano.
He collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal & punk music. He also has illustrated 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 he has realized booklets of illustrations and comics:”The Slavering Rat” and ”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” and ”The Book of Secrets’ ‘(La Cafetiere Editions-Belgium).
During the 2 last years this artist appears in many (maga)zines and art galleries of the world wide web.
Contact:
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
VIA F.CRISPI 79
88100 CATANZARO
ITALY
0961-744087
c_parentela@libero.it
