2501
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Bio
Jacopo Ceccarelli aka 2501 was born in Milan in 1981. He started to paint at the young age of 14 and never gave up working on the walls of his own city, Milan. He studied as a film editor at the “civica scuola” of Milan. He moved to Sao Paolo at the age of 20. Here he got in contact with all of the South American graffiti school (Os Gemeos, Herbert Baglione, Higraff Zezao etc) changing totally his approach to painting. First with the Tag of Robot Inc (with this name he was published on the Tristan Manco’s book “Street logo” (Thems and Hudson) and then as 2501 he started a new style that put together wall painting, paint on canvas, sculpture and video. Back in Milan, between 2004 and 2007 he was member of llloolll studio, mainly working with web design, motion graphic, and much more. In 2007 he moved for the 2nd time to Sao Paolo and started to focus just on his artistic career. He joined various exhibitions and books about street art such as: Street Logo (Tristan Marco), art of rebellion 3, dunk windows (Nike IT), The Urban Edge show (Milan), Urban Affair (Berlin) He currently lives and works between Milan, Berlin and Sao Paolo.
Work
The dreamlike character of Jacopo Ceccarelli’s visual art is brought, in this new exhibition, to a high level of expression, for what concerns both the subjects and the technique. The canvas are here of plastic material, and on them the artist uses felt-tip pens diluted with different solvents, as acetone and ethyl alcohol. This technique, appositively thought by Ceccarelli for his purposes, cannot be totally controlled and mastered in all its effects, and this is why the artist’s works give us the sense of an endless movement, which cannot be fully contained in the borders of the canvas. Portraits of famous people are remixed with everyday objects, animals, common people, in order to represent the result of a dynamic conception of art, in which metamorphosis is not an end of the artistic gesture, but its principle, its ground and meaning. Drawing’s strokes and colors’ weaves interlace themselves, generating impossible figures which are the outcome of a conjunction of reality and imagination. With these new works signed by Ceccarelli, we are brought very close to the essence and source of the artistic creativity, where there is no hierarchy between intuitions and images, thoughts, perceptions and desires, concrete objects – that we can find everywhere in our life – and imaginative worlds. The artist seems to tell us that art itself is a sort of encounter between impulses and drives that we normally separate from each other, and that only in the space of art can be put in dialogue.
