Santo Tolone

Santo Tolone born in1979 in Como, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan. His educational training was largely shaped by a long term involvment with Isola Art Center in Milan, a community based, artist-run organization. Santo’s artistic and curatorial practice investigates exchange, interaction, and dialectical encounters, as well as collaboration with other artists. His exhibition, L’Indiano in giardino, or As you enter the exhibition, you consider this group show by an artist you don’t know by the name of Mr. Rossi, took place all around the Isola neighborhood. In 2008, after five years of collaborating with artist Matteo Mascheroni, as Santomatteo, Santo began working independently. With interventions ranging between video, photography, installation, and sculpture, his practice is an overall attempt to trace the path from mental construct to signification and from scheme to realization, thus becoming the opposite of abstraction.