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Maurizo Cannavacciuolo (b. 1954 Italy) is a cosmopolitan, transcultural, and nomadic soul – part painter, part architect, part philosopher, and part writer, he is a critical observer who is blessed with an acute sense of the ridiculous and the absurd. Cannavacciuolo animates surfaces with intricate and intense drawings. These renderings can be vibrant or almost invisible and often overwhelming. Cannavacciuolo networks patterns and images taken from popular culture, natural history, anthropology, architecture, and posed snapshots taken by, or of himself, into his work. His source materials are turned into slides which he projects onto a wall or a canvas then traces in pencil, ink, or paint. It is not unusual to see an Art Nouveau wall paper pattern mixed with American comic book characters, grinning heads from a dentist’s display the artist encountered in Bangkok, African tribal carvings from a glossy coffee table book, insects, and the vaulted ceiling of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, all positioned together in unpredictable sizes and combinations. Each composition is a very personal world which encourages viewers to create their own adventure. Maurizio Cannavacciuolo has had solo exhibitions at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Sprovieri Progetti, London, Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milano, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Museu da Republica-Galeria Catete, Rio de Janerio, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile and Sperone Westwater, New York. His works are present in several collections including the Foreign Ministry in Rome, the Naples Metro, the Muzei Savremene Umjetnosti of Sarajevo, the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv, and the Italian Embassy in Santiago, Chile. Cannavacciuolo's roots are in Naples. His extensive travels led him to study, live, and explore the Far East, Cuba and most especially, India and Thailand. He currently lives in Rome.