ETIENNE ZERAH WAS BORN IN 1977 NEAR GENOA IN ITALY. FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS HIS APTITUDE FOR DRAWING WAS EVIDENT.
INTERESTED IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN, HE CHOSE SCHOOL OF ARTS.
HE GRADUATED FROM THE COURSE OF PAINTING AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, WHERE HE DEVELOPED HIS PASSION FOR DIGITAL PHOTO CONSTRUCTION.
IN 2002, HE INAUGURATED THE ACADEMIA STUDIO, AN ATELIER OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS, WHERE HE MOSTLY CREATED COPIES OF OIL PAINTINGS ON COMMITION.
IN 2004, HE STARTED WORKING WITH GALLERIES AND DEBUTED AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, FOLLOWED BY SOLO AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS IN VARIOUS GALLERIES AND LOCATIONS IN ITALY AND GERMANY.
IN 2009, HE JOINED OF THE OFFICIAL EVENT OF THE NATIONAL GAY PRIDE IN ITALY WITH A PERSONAL EXHIBITION.
IN 2010, HE MOVED TO BERLIN, WHERE HIS WORKS HAS BEEN PUBLISHED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUITED GAY ART YEARBOOK MEIN SCHWULES AUGE.
HE LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN BERLIN AND GENOA.
IT ALL STARTED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, WHO BLEW THE SPARK IN HIS MIND.
LATER, PIERRE ET GILLES, DAVID LACHAPELLE AND ERWIN OLAF INSPIRED HIM TO FULLY DEVOTE HIMSELF TO THE PICTURE,
NOT THE CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHY, BUT A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS, PRIMARILY DIGITAL, FOCUSING ON THE CUT, COLORS, SUBJECTS AND MEANING, WITH THE AESTHETICS AS THE FIRST GOAL.
IN THE SELFPORTRAITS HE EMPHASIZES AND QUESTIONS HIMSELF, SUBLIMATING HIS OWN IDENTITY, BECOMING AT THE SAME TIME ECLECTIC CHARACTERS AND AN ICON AS MEANINGFUL AS THE WORKS THEMSELVES.
THE ONLY COMMON GOAL, THE PIVOT OF THE ENTIRE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION, IS THE QUEST FOR BALANCE, WHICH IS THE ONLY DETECTOR OF OBJECTIVE BEAUTY.
ACTING DIGITALLY IN A PAINTING WAY, HIS WORKS HAVE THE VALUE OF PAINTINGS, FOR THIS REASON THE COLLECTION CONSIST OF UNIQUE AND LIMITED EDITION PIECES.
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