From Francis Bacon's brutality reflected in potatoes, crucifixions, and expressions of horror, to the master Giger with his disturbing biomechanical unions of flesh and metal, art has not hesitated to twist our guts through the years. We've even noticed that some artificial intelligences prefer to go in that direction when they create paintings, but there is no algorithm behind Italian artist Paolo Girardi. Guts, insects, breasts, limbs, giant monsters, pain and torture. In an era marked by filters of all kinds, Girardi has none.
Max made a quick mention of Girardi in his recommended links 560 (did you miss them? The horror!), but I think it's worth talking a bit more about him. Born in Ascoli Piceno on April 23, 1974, his contact with art was almost immediate. Despite his time in a classical high school that he considered "hellish" and other disappointing institutions, his art fit perfectly into the metal universe, and from 2010 he began to share some of his works on social networks.
Girardi became the author of multiple covers for different bands (the cover of Obscure Verses for the Multiverse by Inquisition is a good example), and below we'll leave a small sample of his main works, which the trained eye will surely recognize. Repulsive and fabulous, subtle and gross at once. As a certain sci-fi deity would say... not for the timid.
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