Barabeke in Florence with Earlier Mona Lisa.

I am an Italian born digital artist, writer, mystic (I received ten commandments for this millennium back in 2015) and revolutionary (I am on a mission to peacefully transform Western culture with them, for real). I am self-taught and active since 2006. I only started to get some attention in 2019, as one of the first artists in the NFT scene.

I am mostly known for my visual art, which is about destroying images, or better transfiguring them into something different, summoning spirits from them raising from myriads of digital glitches. I consider my artworks as portals to other dimensions, which justifies my frequent use of mirrors.

My transfigurations of Da Vinci’s paintings are among my finest works, they are collected in the exhibition “Barabeke’s Leonardo“, which can be visited in the OWW art metaverse.

After some experimentation with AI, I have integrated it in my process in a way that keeps the artist’s gaze as dominant. The Giant Kahuna, one of the largest digital artworks ever (6.7 Gigapixels), containing 999 visions, is the first outcome of this collaboration.

I like to engage audiences with thought-provoking experiences, so far delivered in form of metaverse attractions (The Art Labyrinth) or video art installations.

I occasionally publish thought provoking articles, poetry influenced by the beats, or grotesque and surreal satire. I used to be a copywriter in my native tongue, Italian, but now I mostly write in English (even if I obviously have limits). My writing efforts are now concentrated on the Odd Gospel substack, my philosophical outlet, which I plan to evolve into a book.

Being a counterculture agent keeps me underground and endangers my ability to live as an artist, but there is no compromise I can make with a dominant culture that promotes narcissism, malice, hypocrisy, infantility, victimhood, mediocrity, appearance over essence, feelings over facts, lack of honor, dignity, and grace, all sort of debauchery, and general bitchiness. A great evil will rise from this decadence, which I am afraid it’s too late to stop. I have a tool and a path to either prevent it or survive it. People’s willing, it will find its way.

Before becoming a full time (struggling) artist I have been an online community expert in the London startup scene. Through my job I supported my lifelong spiritual research and my training in several disciplines (e.g. qi gong, reiki, shamanism, hypnotherapy, and NLP). I always thought I was going to become a healer, but in the end I realized I am more of an artist. I still consider myself as part of that category, as what I am ultimately trying to do is to heal society from the roots.