Biography
Angelo Volpe was born in 1976. He lives and works in Pozzuoli (Naples). He attended the Istituto d’Arte and graduated in Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. After graduating he began to work as an assistant for famous international artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, David Tremlett and Sol LeWitt.
Angelo Volpe’s work is striking for its immediate accessibility. His work concerns the analysis of depersonalizing effects caused by modern aesthetic ideals. With a sarcastic and caustic spirit he creates a host of emblematic pictures of sexy-dolls: provocative fairies with diaphanous faces and a mischievous erotic charge mocking the hedonistic emptiness of borderline looks and lifestyles and caricaturing the current standards of women’s beauty, symbols of a Western culture fully devoted to the commodification of the body. The body loses every human trait and takes the form of a plastic puppet, an aesthetic standard imposed by the mass media, which promote an image of bodily perfection that more and more teen-agers aspire to, often surgically altering their bodies to resemble inanimate dolls.
