Angelo Bellobono (Neptune 1964) is an artist and ski coach.
His activity investigates the relationships between anthropology and geology, highlighting the difficult relationship between belonging and identity, in an era in which, the coordinates that determine them, quickly change.
With his work, combining life and professional skills, he tries to relate to places and communities in a profitable and humane way. It often uses art and sport as a tool through which to build awareness, responsibility, social connectivity and sustainable microeconomies.
He constantly seeks a sense of corporal belonging to places, an experience necessary to read the sedimentation of the landscape, his primordial memories, his archives and his meetings with man.
Ice, mountains, landscape and portrait are important elements of his pictorial work; ice representing the planet’s memory archive and mountains, considered hinges and not barriers, to build an idea of moving boundaries and continuity of borders.
He often uses his artistic practice as a tool to interact with communities, as in the case of Atla (s)now, an interdisciplinary project he created, in which art and skiing are used as a means of social relations and sustainable development of some Amazigh communities in the High Atlas of Morocco (www.atlasnowproject.com).
Or “Before my and after my time”, a project started in 2014 with the Native American community of Ramapough Lenape, the indigenous people of Manahattan.
He has participated in the 15th Quadriennale of Rome and the IV and V Biennials of Marrakech and exhibited in public and private spaces, such as the Volume Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art in Cairo and New Delhi, The Macro Museum in Rome, The Ciac Museum in Genazzano, the King Enzo Palace in Bologna, Wunderkammern Gallery in Rome, the Changing Role in Naples and Envoy gallery in New York.
In 2005 he won the Celestial Prize for Painting and in 2010 the Artslant drawing prize. Among others, he was a finalist at the Combat Award and at the Portals of the Disorder Prize. In 2010 he was invited to the critical Tuesdays and in 2015 to the Tedx conference in Rome.
His work is found in numerous public and private collections, such as the Maam Museum in Rome, the Farnesina collection, Maramotti collection, Peretti collection, Brachetti Peretti collection, Hoguet collection, Floridi collection, Benetton collection, Bondardo collection.