(Milan 1974 -)
He was born in 1974 in Milan, where he lives and works. He graduated in 1998 from the University Institute of Modern
Languages IULM in Milan; self-taught painter but very talented, through his unique technique (he paints by subtracting the oil
color from the canvas) expresses a strong and intense figurative painting.
In his most recent research, he combined painting with his passion for gaming, computer science and new technologies to
create in 2015 together with Alessio de Vecchi, expert VR programmer, the multimedia project "Hyperplanes of Simultaneity",
which won the Gold Award at The Lumen Prize 2015 as the best digital art work in the world, the first one able to really
combine painting and new technologies. HPS allows users, through a VR visor, to enter inside Giampietro's paintings.
He has numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Milan, including the public exhibition at the museum of Palazzo Reale for the
presentation of HPS, Bologna, Venice, Shanghai, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and Toronto).
In addition to being one of the most promising young Italian artists, he was the first in Italy to discover and interact with the
world of CryptoArt and NFT.
HPS (HyperPlanes of Simultaneity)
Scraping the Surface - Portrait from Exodus