Biography
Paride Mirabilio was born in Pescara, 30 October 1989; his still remembers his childhood spent in Cervia with tenderness. He returns regularly to Itlay's central country side where he lives on his family's farm. He graduated in Architecture and Design at the art school in Pescara and enrolled at the Univeristy G. D'Annunzio - abandoning his studies after only one year, focussing on different possibilities.
In 2012, he began a fruitful four-hands collaboration with Alessandra Antonucci. Initially they worked together as a costume and set designers for theater workshops, they continues as costume designer for Regina (Queen Italian Tribute Band) and dealt with various approaches of art and tailoring.
At the same time, Paride carries out research on himself through photography with some self-portraits and graphic projects. As Pop-Art refined, he is a renewing and bringing back to the roots the self-portrait, in his apparently simple pictures, where the contorted and bony body is present and absent at the same time.
A naked, inconsolable, abandoned body - waiting for something, but also unusual, lively and charming Narcissus. A rarefied light to look for suspension and grey contrasts, new asymmetries. Triangle and circle are recurring shapes in Paride’s visions, while back and hands are recurring in self-portraits.
In 2013 he was noticed and published by The Irrepressibles with a cover reworking he had designed independently.
In 2014, Paride moved to Berlin searching for new inspirations, where he started as a model. On the occasion of the Berlin Alternative Fashion Week, he was modeling for emerging designers, including VITA DATURA, ZL by Zlism, RICHARD KNAUER, ANDREY BARTENEV, Ivana Pilja and TZUJI.
In parallel he continued his research through photography, letting yourself discover slowly in the Berliner environment. Taking part at the collective exhibition "New Artists" in 2015 at The Ballery, in the heart of the city where had the opportunity for the first time to present himself with one of his works: "ATTEMPT".
An investigation on the physical perception of space and sensuality of the body, an attempt to give a physical form to the unknown.
In 2016 Paride participated in the collective "Modernism Exhibition" at Rebecca Fine Art Gallery in Palm Springs, California, with two of his black and white self-portraits snapped right in front of the window of his bedroom - the one where during his teenage years he were dreaming about his future. He further appeared in the film "EXODUS - Die Flucht Der Kinder". After the recording in Berlin he returns to Italy for health reasons to an isolated farmhouse where his family lives, fighting with ideas of impurity and worthlessness.
In 2017 he took his self-portraits to Bogotà, exhibiting in the Galerìa El Garaje, where he participated in the photographic exhibition "En Carne Propia" with "Autoritratto a Berlino".
Paride has returned to Berlin, where he continues his artistic work.
