As an Artist I just let the beauty of what I love be what I do…

  • Antonio “Nino” Del Prete (ADP) is an Italian artist, actor and producer. ADP was born in the shadows of Vesuvius, outside of Naples, Italy, to a seamstress-mother and an artist-father who made a living as an Art History teacher.

    ADP’s large Neapolitan family was loving and supportive, but always struggled to make ends meet until his mother’s career as a fashion designer took off when he was twelve. His family’s newly acquired wealth allowed them to travel to many exotic destinations, giving ADP exposure to many new cultures and styles of art.

    By seventeen, ADP was dividing his time between Paris and Mallorca, Spain, where his parents had bought a vacation home. In Paris he studied fashion design at ESMOD and later theatre at the Acting International Conservatory, but he also began experimenting with street art. Art was just a hobby for ADP at that time, then one day he discovered a style of painting that gave him a passion for the medium that has stayed with him to this day.

    ADP played the trumpet and was growing tired of it when he discovered the Aboriginal Australian instrument, the didgeridoo. This discovery lead ADP to explore the Aboriginal culture and their art. His early works relied heavily on the dot technique he had learned from his Aboriginal brothers, then gradually he took it a step further by combining it with the stenciling technique he had picked up in his street art days.

    Today, ADP’s art varies from complex, multi-layered, hand cut stencils that require the precision and patience of a monk to create; to the re-workings of serious Classical paintings into whimsical political commentaries. What all his work shares, from his paintings to his mixed-media pieces, is a multicultural focus on using his art to critique the inescapable contradictions of the world in which we live. In this he brings humor and insight to artistic narratives that seek to contribute to social change and a more moral universe.

    Fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish, ADP has had success with private and group shows in the USA and Europe. Two of his pieces (“BacDonald” and “Holywood”) were recently selected for the book, “Constructing Critical Consciousness: Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Great Equity in Education”, and he has recently named and listed in the prestigious Art Book reference "L'Atlante Dell'Arte Contemporanea" among the 800 Italian Artists that influenced Contemporary Art.

    Antonio was received by Pope Francis at the Vatican City after being selected among the Artists who helped raising funds with his Art for the Educational Children Foundation "Scholas".

 

SHOWS & EXPOS

    • 2022 March, Beverly Hills City Hall, California - Solidarity for Democracy and Freedom (Private Auction)

    • 2021 September, Palos Verde Peninsula, California - See Beyond the Hill, Women’s Empowerment Conference (Private Auction)

    • 2019 December, Frankfurt, Germany - Seeking Rebirth at the Kollekt Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2019 March, Miami, Florida - Aria on the Bay at ONE Sotheby’s (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2018 December, Miami, Florida - The Hive at Brickell (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2018 November, Miami, Florida - Jenny Falckenberg (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2018 November, Miami, Florida - Gallery Limited Edition (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2018 September, Hamburg, Germany - Gallery Anne Moerchen (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2018 August, Mallorca, Spain - Golf Son Vida (Solo Show)

    • 2018 February, Karlsruhe, Germany - Art Karlsruhe International Art Fair (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2017 November, Berlin, Germany - Berlin Art Box Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2017 May, Hamburg, Germany - ISH International School of Hamburg (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2016 May, Hamburg, Germany - Kappich & Piel Gallery (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2015 September, Chicago, Illinois - Expo Wansas Lounge Booth (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2015 March, London, United Kingdom - My Art Invest (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2014 November, Miami, Florida - Avant Gallery Epic Hotel (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2014 March, Miami, Florida - Biscayne Art House Art Center (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2013 December, Miami, Florida - Art Basel Miami at the W Hotel (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2013 December, Miami, Florida - Art Basel Miami at the Perfecto (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2013 October, Hollywood, California - Somaly Mam Foundation Fundraiser (Solo Exhibition)

    • 2012 September, Venezia, Italy - Private Showing at Palazzo D’Amasco (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2012 June, Beverly Hills, California - Gallery For The People at Mr. C Hotel (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2012 October, Beverly Hills, California - Cartel Art at Private Venue (Collective Exhibition)

    • 2012 July, Palo Alto, California - Gallery For The People at Stonebrook Estate (Private Showing)

    • 2012 June, Beverly Hills, California - Gallery For The People at Mr. C Hotel (Private Showing)

    • 2011 September, Hollywood, California - Atelier au Chateau Marmont (Collective Exhibition)

 

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