Chiara Rapaccini, known as “RAP”, is a Florentine artist based in Rome, where she holds the Chair of Illustration at IED (European Institute of Design). A painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, she has published numerous books for both children and adults, and collaborated with various newspapers and magazines.

In 2008, together with Mario Monicelli, she co-wrote and directed the documentary Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti (“Near the Colosseum There’s Monti”). Her works have been exhibited around the world — from New York to Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Havana, and Paris.

With her satirical comic series Amori Sfigati (“Loser Loves”), she won the Andrea Pazienza Prize for Best Web Author.
In 2019, she produced the documentary AMORI DI LATTA – Close Encounters with Teenagers for Rai Storia, directed by Graziano Conversano and premiered at the Rome Film Festival, in the “Alice nella Città” section.

Her latest book, MIO AMATO BELZEBÙ – The Bittersweet Life with Monicelli and Friends (Giunti Editore), was published in 2023 and won the Afrodite Prize.
In 2024, she was awarded the Bertoldo Prize for Satire and Humor.

RAP TRIBÙ is a retrospective exhibition by Chiara Rapaccini — RAP — a multifaceted artist and wonderfully eccentric voice in contemporary Italian art. The exhibition brings together a selection of works that span her rich creative universe: sculptures, drawings, books, furniture pieces, and decorative boxes that explore the emotional and relational world with irony, tenderness, and provocation.

The characters in RAP TRIBÙ are whimsical, colorful, fragile, and at times grotesque. They inhabit a lovingly chaotic microcosm, where even imperfections become markers of identity.
A chance to be drawn into RAP’s imagination and to enter, with a smile, her vibrant and ironic imaginary tribe.