Off The Wall

  M A T T E O   T R I S O L I N I I was born and raised in Italy and always found myself out of place wherever I ended up, except for that time in 1996 when I (for the first time) landed in NYC. It was just a family trip celebrating my parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Little they knew, by taking me on that trip they had changed my life. I spent the next 4 years finding ways to make NYC my home. The journey involved a few years in Milan studying photography at the European Institute of Design (IED) where I was able to win a scholarship to attend School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC. Useless to mention, I never left NY. After graduating and moving to NY I worked as a commercial photographer for clients like Simon & Schuster, Elements Magazine while I was creating work for celebrities, musicians and artists. I exhibited my personal work in NYC, Philippines, Italy and Japan with a sweet highlight for the Venice Biennial when I was a student at IED. Everything came to a stop...

  Rene Farias I am a Cuban artist living in Miami I like to explore the human eroticism and break taboos and stereotypes. There is no better way to assert ideas than through art. Mermaids, minotaurs, fairies, snakes, butterflies; recurring elements in my work that serve to accentuate the contrast between masculine strength and the fragility and delicacy that nature and mythology offer us. Oshun Oil on canvas painting, 110 x 90 inches $3.000 Let’s start with your story, we would like to know about your journey has been so far and hear how you got started. I am a Cuban artist born in Havana. Since I was little, I was always interested in art, but it was not until 2017 that I began to dedicate myself to it professionally. What is something you had to put off because of the pandemic that you have recently done or is on your list to do soon? The pandemic was really what made me start working with watercolor. It was a totally new medium for me and having a lot of free time in confin...