DESORDEN :: Hildebrando Bellizzio

April 16, 2016

Bellizzio works in a wide variety of media that reflects his broad spectrum of visual reference and influences. Paint and graphite frequently contrast against collage-work and found materials. His exuberant compositions are as often frenetically painted as they are meticulously labored over, rebelliously aloof yet intensely attended to. Clearly echoing the visual language of punk rock posters as well as zine and skater culture, Bellizzio’s work is urgently created and asks viewers for a similar urgency. Yet his approach to dimensionality and perspective, or rather his defiant resistance to it, call to mind folk art and even.

Hildebrando Bellizzio was born in Venezuela and studied painting and mixed media at Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (IUESAPAR) in Caracas. He has since participated in exhibitions and performances throughout Venezuela and the United States. Bellizzio currently lives and works in Seattle.