Claudio Parentela

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I’m born in Catanzaro, Italy (1962), where I live and I work. I’m an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist: freelance. I’m active since many years in the international underground scene. I’ve collaborated and collaborate with many, many ’zines,magazines of contemporary art, literature and comics in Italy and in the world, on paper and on the web. Among many:

A.K.O.M.
Algiza
All About Fucking
Angelflesh Press
Anima Mal Nata
Anthology
ApArte
Art Life
Axolotl
B.G.A.Comix
Balkan Spirit
Bathtub Gin
Bianco D’Uovo
Blind Man’s Rainbow
Bolle Di Cartone
Braintwisting
Breakfast All Day
Bries
Cabezabajo
Careful
CartaIgienica
Celulit
Chainsmoker
Chamelon
Chance
Cikuta
Comfusion Magazine
Contagio
Container
Cool Strip Anthology
Crane Magazine
Criade
Crimson Feet
Crystal Drum
Debilana
Devil Blossoms
Diesel

Disegni Di Sogni
Don Juan Online
Edgar
Ellin Selae
Emozioni
Empty Life
Entmoot
Erroneo
Evasion
Experimental Forest
Faestethic
Fagorgo
Fatece Largo
Field Report
First Class
Frior
Funtime Comics
Gambuzine
Gibbering Madness
Gooch Magazine
Gordo.it
Gumball Poetry
Head Press
Il Foglio Clandestino
Inguine
Joey and The Black Boots
Kalte Tage
Kami Zine
Komikaze
Komix.it
Labour Of Love
Lamette
Laugh Clown Laugh
Lavirint
Liberazione.net
Lit Pot Press
Lo Sciacallo Elettronico
Lore

Love Eternal Lost Infernal
Luca Bonanno Editore
Lucid Moon
Lunatic
Malefact
Mammamiaquantosangue
Microbe
Milk & Wodka
Mineshaft
Multistorey
Mutate & Survive
New York Press
Nexus
O!!Zone
Omnibus
Out Of The Blue
Out Zine
Oyster Boy Review
Panik
Petrolio
Phony Lid Publications
Pimba
Pintalo De Verde
Pitchfork
Planeta Underground
Plop
Proper Gander
Prospektiva
Pssst Zine
Pus!
Que Suerte
Ratriot
Raven
Re:Magazine
Rigodor
Rorschach
Rotkop
Shift
Sick Puppy
Sinus

Sirota Jerica
Skirocore
Skyline
Slic
Something Else
Spaghetti
Staplegun
Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories
Stripburger
Stu Magazine
Succo Acido
Sunburn
Surface
The Benway Institute
The Brobdingnan Time
The Brown Bottle
The Cherotic R(e)volutionary
The Dream Zone
The Flashing Astonisher
The Lummox Journal
The Sound Projector
The White Buffalo Gazzette
This Is Magazine
Topaz & Psichedelica
Tracce
Traspiratore
Untergrundblatte
Versus Press
Vial
Vitriol
Xero Magazine
Yahoo Zine
Yops Zine
You&Me
Zone Optimiste De Bande Dessinèe
ZZZzine

And I could continue for a long time...

During 1999 I was guest of the Break 21 Festival, in Ljubliana, Slovenia.

My obscure and crazy artworks are presented and shown in many, many art galleries on the endless web, as well as at:

Girasole (Villa Basilica),
Tabula Rasa (Barcelona)
Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam)
La Casa Di Tolleranza (Milan)
La Cueva-No Art Gallery (Milan)
The Association Mind (Turin)
The Gap (Turin)
The Pina Gallery (Koper)

The Diesel Gallery (New York)
The Metaverso (Rome)
The Little Cakes Gallery (New York)
The Interzona (Verona)
The Libreria Hoepli (Milan)
The Trainside Gallery (Haverhill, USA)
The Scaremongering Gallery (USA)
The Zo Cafè (Bologna)

The Achab of Catania and at all the other Sicilian stops of the show Sogno Di Segni
The show Arredi Digitali in San Benedetto Del Tronto
The shows that Graphola has organized and continues to organize;
Leave Your Fingerprints, organized by the friend Mimmo Manes & UBQ and many others.

I do a lot of mail art and I participate in all the mail art projects I know of.

I’ve collaborated and I collaborate with many bands of industrial music, noise, experimental & electronic, harsh & death & metal gore, punx....

I’ve illustrated poems and stories of:

Gavin Burrows
Harry Wilkens
Vittorio Baccelli
Claudio Morici
Alberto Rizzi

Cristiano Quadalti
Shannon Colebank
Gary Sneyd
Robert Smith

Michael Kriesel
Mark Sonnenfeld
Nathan Medema
Richard D. Houff

and collaborated with Gianluca Costantini, Evi Athan, Marcel Herms, Kapreles...

For various publishers I ’ve realized some booklets of illustrations and comics:

Il Ratto Bavoso and L’Incubo Dimezzato (Innovation Studio-B.G.A. Comix, Italy)
Fashion Robot (David Lasky; Seattle, USA)
L’Agnello Sacrificale e la Salamandra Impiccata al Patè 666 (Medicina Nucleare, Italy)
Storie (Progetto Siderurgiko, Italy)
Eudemoni and Piccola Trilogia Nera (Poems of Alberto Rizzi and of Cristiano Quadalti with my illustrations-Criatu Prod., Italy);
Jeanne Dark You Got Balls and The Frogs’ Ballet (self-produced)
Black Kisses and Other Stories; and The Book of Secrets (La Cafetière Editions, Belgium)
Endless Tongue (texts of Richard D. Houff and my illustrations, The Benway Institute, USA)
Else Beds (my illustrations and poems of Nathan Medema: JesusBunny Press, Canada)
The Savage Soldier (Luca Menichini Prod., Italy)
Derrumbe (my illustrations and story of Claudio Morici-Valter Casini Ed., Italy)
Matter Ballet (my illustrations and poems of Michael Kriesel; BoneWorld Publishing, USA)
Social Reform (poems of Shannon Colebank and my illustrations; Whizzbanger Prod., USA)

and on the web I’m present on many pages and in many places again.

For contacts: Claudio Parentela
Via F. Crispi 79
88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Telephone: 0961-744087
Cell phone: 347-1256756
E-Mail: c_parentela@libero.it