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“, che mixa il classico stile grafico di Turbokrapfen con la molteplicità e la complessità del Bauharoque. Nel 2017 nasce anche Discoteca Clandestina, lo spin-off musicale apocalittico di Tales From The 5D Ultraverse.

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Paolo Danese aka Turbokrapfen is an 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 and 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”, mixing the classic graphic Turbokrapfen style with the multiplicity and complexity of the Bauharoque concept.
In 2017 Discoteca Clandestina is also born, as the apocalyptic musical spin-off of Tales From The 5D Ultraverse.

EVENTS/PERFORMANCES

2023 Discoteca Clandestina @ GalacticFest, Mugello, (Italy)
2022 Discoteca Clandestina @ AcidOpen, Marghera, (Italy)
2022 Discoteca Clandestina @ Galactic Vinyl Federation, Barbarano Vicentino, (Italy)
2021 Discoteca Clandestina @ Neutopica 2, Velo D’Astico, (Italy)
2020 Discoteca Clandestina @ Casa Capra, Schio, (Italy)
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

2022 Stand Alone /w Casa Capra, ArtVerona 17, Verona
2021 How To Make a Neutopia (A MESHZINE), Casa Capra, Schio (VI)
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
2020 Electronic Music Producer Basic Workshop at Biennale College, Venice, Italy
2014-2015 Postgraduate Course in Interdisciplinary Printmaking at E. Geppert Art Academy, Wroclaw, Poland
2006 Postgraduate Course in Graphic Design at Irigem, Rosà, Italy
2002-2005 Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts at IUAV University, Venice, Italy

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