Domenico Zindato (born 1966) is an Italian self-taught artist and draftsman who currently resides in Cuernevaca, Mexico.
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Biography
Domenico Zindato was born in 1966 in southern Italy’s Reggio Calabria province. He briefly studied law in Rome at "La Sapienza" University, before changing his focus to theater and cinema studies. After moving briefly to Milan, Zindato relocated to Berlin in 1988.
While in Berlin, Zindato continued to explore his interests in theater, music and performance and establish his own artistic identity. While managing a disco he also hosted his own cabaret-like performance that he describes as being influenced by Dada and Surrealism. After leaving Europe, he traveled throughout Mexico, settling in the capital Mexico city and then later Cuernavaca.
Work
Zindato’s work is difficult to pin down into a predefined category,though he is often linked to the outsider-art, self-taught contemporary art fields. He has been represented and shown by galleries in New York,Paris,Berlin, Italy,Mexico City. A master draftsman, Zindato has developed a labor-intensive, meticulously detailed drawing technique, using nib pens and fine-haired brushes on paper, to create semi-abstract images packed with mysterious motifs and elaborate patterns. Set against brightly colored backgrounds, Zindato’s drawings read, from a distance, as abstract. Viewed closely, however, they reveal the artist’s intricate pattern-making, with its dynamic swirls, eddies, and enigmatic symbols: eyeballs, floating heads, wave-like ripples and hand-drawn letters,resulting in an interlocking visual experience of micro and macro dimensions. His method has earned him the admiration of connoisseurs of self-taught art. His art reflects the colors of his travels in India,Mexico,Haiti,Morocco,between others,and suggests affinities with pre-historic cave paintings,indigenous cultures,shamanism,African textiles, Australian Aboriginal art,Middle-Ages illuminated manuscripts,XXth century spiritualism, Psychelic iconography,Buddhist Mandalas, Native-American decorative patterns.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Andrew Edlin Gallery,New York
2010 Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2007 Galérie Objet-Trouvé, Paris
2007 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2004 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2000 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1998 Galeria 127, Mexico City, Mexico
1996 Café Aurora Tresor, Berlin
1995 SOMA in KunstlerhausBethanien, Berlin
1995 Gallery OZ, Paris,France
1993 Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1992 Boudoir, Berlin, Germany
1991 Gallery Loulou Lasard, Berlin, Germany
1990 Gallery Loulou Lasard, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2016 As Essential as Dreams:Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither,The Menil Collection,Houston,Texas,TX
2016 World Made By Hand,Andrew Edlin Gallery,New York,NY
2014 En el Umbral (y solo a unos pasos de la dimension sublime de la belleza) , Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2012 Accidental Genius:Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2011 All Folked Up!, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Dallas,Texas,TX
2010 Art Forum Berlin, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Berlin
Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum, New York
2009 In Through the Out Door, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Art Forum Berlin, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Berlin
2008 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2007 Winteropstelling, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
OttoVolteQuattro, Galleria Fuorinorma, Verona, Italy
ArtVerona, Galleria Fuorinorma, Verona, Italy
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2005 Interior Motives, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Wos up man? Selections from the J.M. and J.D. Shein collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania
Abuso de conciencia, Convento ExTeresa, Mexico City
Galeria El Estudio, Mexico City
2003 Write on, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, Texas
2002 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2001 Hands across the sea, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1999 Outsider Art, Museum C. Zander, Bonnigheim, Germany
1998 Outsider Art Fair, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1996 Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1995 Facing Holiness, Gallery Spektrum, Olmnitz, Czech Republic
Occhio.Concetti del disegno, Noire Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
1994 Boudoir at PS.1, PS.1, New York
1993 Livres et object d'art, Isabelle Bongard, Paris, France
1991 The Fourth Biedermaier, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands