At Casa degli Artisti, photo by Davide De Santis



CONTACTS

Mail: studio@rup.rip
Instagram @roberto_rup_paolini

STATEMENT

My study, often inserted in a twilight atmosphere, is mainly aimed at the observation and elaboration of deep and surface emotions, personal and collective, through the use of arcane and symbolic figures linked to a folkloristic and fantastic imagery of different cultures.

In a multidisciplinary and free practice in the use of any means of expression, I prefer video and painting, in a unique research, cohesive and constant aimed at technical and expressive growth.


EXHIBITIONS AND RESIDENCES

2024
Buonanotte Giorno, artistic residence, Casa degli Artisti, Milano
Warm socks on a sunny day, collective exhibition, Riss(e), Varese

2023
Twin Spark, collective exhibition, Condominio, Milano
Ex-Sistere, collective exhibition, Hasita Gallery, Milano
Santa, multidisciplinary collective exhibition, Ex-Viri, Noicattaro (Bari)
Oscillazioni, Palazzo Damiani, Pontremoli (painting and site specific installation)

2022
Oscillazioni, NoGallery, Pontremoli (paintings exposition, residence and live painting)
Santa, artistic residence for Futuro Arcaico and Naka, Noicattaro (Bari)

2021
Sentimenti Manifesti, Spazio ONOFF, Milano (painted posters and books)

2020
Art of Being Alone, Artios Gallery, New York (IX - The Hermit, video installation)
Walk in Studio, viafarini/docva, Milan (IX - The Hermit, video installation)

2018
Studi Festival, labRouge, Milano (drawings)

2016
Subculture Fanzine, Edicola Radetzky, Milan (drawings)

2013
Arte in Sarpi, Casta Diva Pictures, Milan (video installation and drawings)

2012
Objects that watching you, Design Library Cafè, Milan (video installation)
You are the Future, BSpace, Milan (video installation and drawings)

COLLABORATIONS

2020
Katso Merta - alle volte mi scordo di guardare il mare, Kuja Gallery, Helsinki (video installation with Thomas Berra) 2017

2016
Subculture Fanzine, collection of experimental videos
Una Darsena piccola piccola, studio exhibition, Milan (video installation in collaboration with Bruno Marrapodi)

2011
La Diner Blanc (video direction for Miriam Secco), Padiglione Italia, Biennale di Venezia 54 - International Art Exhibition

FILM FESTIVALS

2023
INQRVENTION Film Festival, São Paulo, (Brazil) Stockholm City Film Festival (Sweden)

2022
Festival del cinema di Cefalù (Italy)

2020
Esto Es Para Esto, Monterrey (Mexico) Insolito Film Fest, Lima (Perù)

2019
Indie Visions Film Festival, Charlottesville (USA) Festival dell’Amore, Triennale Museum, Milan (Italy)

2017
MonFilmFest, Casale Monferrato (Italy) LoveFilmFest, Verona (Italy)

2012
Cineterra, Siena (Italy)

2009
Epizephiry Film Festival, Locri (italy)

2008
Festival del Cinema Europeo, Lecce (Italy)
Cinemambiente, Torino (Italy)
Tesori di Puglia - Mostra del documentario, Manfredonia (Italy)


BIO

Born in Milan, multidisciplinary artist. Raised in a popular family cinema that showed art films, the De Amicis. I attended the Art School and then the school of Castello Sorzesco where I took a specialization as an Illustrator.
I practiced theater in the I Rabdomanti company and participated in several shows.
After an experience as Art Director in advetising, I worked as a director in the music and commercial fields. I directed two documentaries and a feature film. In 2017 I founded Carboluce, a project with the aim of promoting and researching self-produced and experimental cinema, with which the Film Fantasma was produced in 2018.
In 2021 I exhibited with a project entitled Sentimenti Manifesti at the ONOFF space in Milan; in 2020 a screening with a video installation entitled IX-THE HERMIT in the group show at the Artios Gallery in NY; in 2022 and 2023 in the group exhibition Oscillazioni in Pontremoli with an ongoing project dedicated to the Giants; in 2022 in the SANTA residency organized by Futuro Arcaico and Naka Eps in Bari with which I exhibit in April 2023 with a film project entitled Fiamma Santissima, Mistero Profondo; in 2023 a group exhibition Ex-Sistere for the inauguration of the new Hasita gallery and in the group exhibition Twin Spark at the Condominio XYZ gallery, both in Milan. In the summer of 2024 residency and exhibition at the Casa degli Artisti.