Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, mail artist, and cartoonist, who is very active in the international underground scene. He collaborates with many, many zines, magazines and with many publishers in Italy and around the world.

His strange artworks are in many, many art galleries in the immense web. In these last months he has exhibited his artworks at the association Microcosmo (Torino ); the Girasole (Villa Basilica-Italy); the Tabula Rasa (Barcellona-Espain); the Galerie Slaphanger (Amsterdam), and in the next months he'll exhibit at the Gallery Soqquadro (Rome )and at ''La Cueva'' (Milan).

He participates in all the mail art projects/shows that he can. He collaborates with various labels & bands of industrial, noise, metal, and punx music. He has illustrated the stories and poems of: Vittorio Baccelli, Lisa Massei, Alberto Rizzi, Cristiano Quadalti, Shannon Colebank, Gavin Burrows, Gary Sneyd, Robert Smith, Michael Kriesel, and Mark Sonnenfeld.

Publishers in both Italy and the US have published books of his comics and illustrations. For more information, contact him...

CLAUDIO PARENTELA
VIA MILANO n.10 88100 CATANZARO-ITALY
Phone: 0961-744087
c_parentela@libero.it