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El Gato Chimney was born in 1981 in Milan, where he currently lives and works. He started his career as a self taught artist, developing an early interest in graffiti, which made him pursue a successful journey into street art, that he still cites as one of his ispirations, along with steampunk culture and surrealism. If you allow him to take you on a not easily forgettable ride into his work, you will discover a Bosch-like world where fields made of melty pink icing goodness leave place to abandoned carnivals dripping with desolation and rust - a world seemingly unhabitated by humans, even though flying teapots and tiny metal beings call it their home. Beware, though, as in his art nothing is as it seems and nothing is left to the case: the artist's goal is to make the beholder think and wonder instead of being a passive observer in front of the umpteenth meaningless painting. In the end, numbers and symbols might or might not offer you a solution to the enigma, but they surely will make you want to take in every little detail of the dreamy landscapes, bursting with vivid colours and amazingly lively creatures, only waiting to tell you their own version of the story.

Solo Show

2010 - STEAM FUNFAIR - Avantgarden Galley, Milano - Cur. Manfredi Brunelli e Fiammetta De Michele


Group show

2010 - HUNT & GATHER - Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles, USA - Cur. Tina Ziegler
2010 - CERES 4 ART - My Own Gallery - Milano - Cur. Valentina Pesati e Igor Zanti
2010 - AMBIGUOUS PAINTING – Galleria Spazioinmostra – Milano - Cur. Ivan Quaroni
2010 - OLTRE IL MURO – Galleria Civica di Bolzano – Bolzano - Cur. Alessandro Mantovani

2009 - URBANPAINTIGN XMAS SHOW – Spazio Concept – Milano - Cur. Luigi Mauri
2009 - THE CHRISTMAS ART CORNER – Galleria Spazioinmostra – Milano - Cur. Ivan Quaroni
2009 - BREAKIN WALLS – Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mantovani
2009 - IL CANTO DELLA TERRA – Città di Castellamonte - Cur. Vittorio Amedeo Sacco
2009 - MODART MAGAZINE GROUP SHOW – Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles, USA - Cur Harlan Levey
2009 - AUTORITRATTI 44+1 – The Don Gallery - Milano - Cur. Marina Alessi
2009 - SOPRA IL SOTTO “Tombini art” – Superstudio Più – Milano - Cur.Monica Nascinbeni e Davide Giannella
2009 - URBAN SUPERSTAR – Museo D’arte Contemporanea MADRE – Napoli - Cur. David Vecchiato
2009 - STREET WITHOUT WALL – Museo della Misericordia – Firenze - Cur. Chiara Canali

2008 - VIA BRICK LANE E1 – Bricklane Gallery – Londra - Cur. Federico Fabbri
2008 - URBAN PAINTING - Atrion - Carugate - Cur. Luigi Mauri
2008 - EAT ME, DRINK ME, un voyage au pays des merveilles – Gallerie L’art de rien – Parigi - Cur. Isa Labre
2008 - SOLD OUT – Bovisio Masciago - Cur. Chiara Canali
2008 - SCALA MERCALLI – Auditorium della Musica – Roma - Cur. Gianluca Marziani
2008 - AMAZE/2008 – Sint-Niklaas - Cur. Sztuka Fabryka

2007 - INCONTEMPORANEA 01 - Triennale di Milano – Milano
2007 - PP BEAR – Art Taipei - Taipei

2006 - BOVISA IN LINEA – Triennale di Milano-Bovisa – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mininno
2006 - MORE – Group show – Fiera Campionaria di Milano – Milano - Cur. Maurizio Cocchi

2005 - URBAN EDGE SHOW – Spazio P4 – Milano - Cur. Bo130 e Microbo
2005 - STREET VIRUS – Ready Made Studio – Milano - Cur. Alessandro Mininno