Paolo Danese aka Turbokrapfen é un artista, alchimista e mistico contemporaneo nato nel 1983. Turbokrapfen utilizza differenti modalità espressive, incluso il disegno, la grafica d’arte, l’illustrazione, la pittura, la conferenza/performance, l’infografica, il libro d’artista, il djing ed il vjing come forma di ricerca artistica e spirituale. Secondo l’artista americano Paul Laffoley, “La fase finale del modernismo inizia nell’anno 2000 e viene inaugurata l’11 Settembre 2001, e continuerà per i prossimi 100 anni”. Il suo termine per questo periodo é il Bauharoque: combina il modernismo eroico del Bauhaus tedesco, con l’aspirazione verso un utopia tecnologica, e la teatralità esaltata del barocco italiano, nel quale l’esuberanza tra forma e illusione serve ad esprimere l’unione mistica tra arte e vita. Nel 2015 Paolo inizia un progetto interdisciplinare chiamato “Tales from the 5D Ultraverse“, il quale ha l’obiettivo di diventare un Gesamtkunstwerk (opera d’arte totale), agendo da ponte tra l’appena nata consapevolezza del Bauharoque e la morente sensibilità postmoderna. Tales from the 5D Ultraverse mixa il classico stile Turbokrapfen con la molteplicità e la complessità della sperimentazione artistica. L’obiettivo finale di Tales from the 5D Ultraverse é quello di usare la pratica artistica come forma di illuminazione spirituale, aprendo un portale tra la terza e la quinta dimensione dell’Universo, che, secondo tutte le tradizioni religiose ed esoteriche corrisponde all’eternità e alla vita immortale.

Paolo Danese aka Turbokrapfen is an italian artist, alchemist and contemporary mystic born in 1983.
Turbokrapfen uses different expression modalities, including drawing, graphic arts, illustration, painting, lecture/performance, infographics, artist’s book, djing e vjing as a form of spiritual and artistic research.
According to american artist Paul Laffoley, “The final phase of modernism in the western world began with the year 2000 A.D. and was consummated by September 11, 2001, and will continue for the next one hundred years”. His term for this period is the “Bauharoque“. “It combined the heroic modernism of the German Bauhaus, with the aspiration toward a technological utopia, and the exalted theatricality of the italian baroque, in which an exuberance of form and illusion serve to express the mystical union of art and life.”
In 2015 Paolo started an interdisciplinary art project called “Tales from the 5D Ultraverse”, which aims to become a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) acting as a bridge between the newborn consciousness of the Bauharoque era and the fading Postmodern sensibility. Tales from the 5D Ultraverse mixes the classic Turbokrapfen style with the multiplicity and complexity of the artistic experimentation.
The final goal of “Tales from the 5D Ultraverse” is to use the artistic practice as a form of spiritual illumination, opening a portal between the third and the fifth dimension of the Universe, which, according to all the spiritual, religious and esoteric traditions corresponds to eternity and immortal life.

EVENTS/PERFORMANCES
2020  Discoteca Clandestina @ Flusse, Porto Burci, Vicenza (Italy)
2020  Discoteca Clandestina @ Neutopia, Velo D’Astico (Italy)
2019  Discoteca Clandestina @ The Passage, Milano (Italy)
2019  Discoteca Clandestina @Andrà Tutto Bene, Milano (Italy)
2019  Discoteca Clandestina talk/performance +djset @Reverso, Festival di Archeologia Musicale, Milano (Italy)
2019  Putting The Night On Hold @ Underwool, Schio (VI)
2019 Discoteca Candestina @Harbinger, Kunsthal Gent, Gent (Belgium)
2018 Discoteca Clandestina @YtaloW, Base, Milano (Italy)
2018 No House No Place No Space, A.PASS, Bruxelles (Belgium)
2018 Discoteca Clandestina @ Yucatan Extension, Vilnius (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Living Art, Spazio Shed, Schio (VI)
2016 Wunderkammern Uno, CACC-Centro Arte Cultura Cittadella (PD)
2016 Visioni, CACC-Centro Arte Cultura Cittadella (PD)
2015 Oggi è tutto molto strano, CACC-Centro Arte Cultura Cittadella (PD)
2015 Filò, Osteria Scaldaferro, Sandrigo (VI)
2015 Diploma Exhibition, E.Geppert  Art Academy, Wroclaw, Poland
2015 Dialog, Baszta, Wroclaw, Poland
2015  Dwadzieścia cztery oczy – Twenty Four Eyes, Szewska Pasja Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2009 Vans Store Opening, Vans Flagship Store, Milano
2006 Display, Le Corti Venete, San Martino Buon Albergo (VE)
2005 Il Male, Villa Manin, Codroipo (UD)
2004 I can’t see/From A White Canvas, Cà del Duca, Venezia
2004 Premio Dams, Villa delle Rose, Bologna

BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESS
2020 Brzuszko, Issue n.1
2019 Dimensions zine, Sidewalk Bolzano
2019 T-Mag, Issue n.4, “Discoteca Clandestina” by Mattia Barro
2019 Harbinger: Imperfect Agreements, KASK School of Arts Gent
2019 Cazzo Magazine, Issue n.3
2016 Bestiario Criptozoologico, Lago Film Fest
2014 MAI+T / Marina Abramovic Institute Tumblr (online)

ART RESIDENCIES
2020 Neutopia, Velo D’Astico, Italy
2015 Print Workshop, Falun, Sweden

EDUCATION
2014-2015 Postgraduate Course in Interdisciplinary Printmaking at E. Geppert Art Academy, Wroclaw, Poland
2002-2005 Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts at IUAV University, Venice, Italy

Curriculum/Portfolio 2020 (ITA) 
Curriculum/Portfolio 2020 (ENG)