Escape

Oscillating between amazement and disgust, Nemo describes man and the society in which he lives, trying to put a face to his surroundings.

In 2002 he began painting on walls among abandoned places and disused factories. He adopted the name of the protagonist of the book “Little Nemo in Slumberland” by cartoonist Winsor McCay. He became fascinated and inspired by the anatomy-biology books and comics he found at home, science fiction films and dystopian cyberpunk tales of the early 1980s. His interest in man as a “social animal” accompanied him from the beginning and led him to define a prototype of the hominid that could describe the contradictions of his time. Naked and without any sign of civilization, man shows himself for what he really is.
A defenseless creature at the mercy of nature and itself, with only one goal: to survive. Hovering between amazement and disgust, Nemo describes man and contemporary society, trying to give a face to what surrounds him. Nemo’s has painted in many countries around the world (Latin America, USA, India, Africa and Europe). He often works in projects with marginalized communities, in suburbs and in prisons. He continues to draw in abandoned places and wherever he happens to be. In 2016 and 2017, he published two books with the Italian publisher Logos. The first is a collection of drawings and the second deals with the theme of water in the world.