Giacomo Drudi

  • Home
  • Giacomo Drudi

Giacomo Drudi Italian Brand Designer and Artist based in Cesena, Italy.

Testācĕus, Mixed Media on paper (Acrylic paint, modelling paste, gold-painted CD-ROM fragments), 70 × 100 cmThere is a r...
25/07/2026

Testācĕus, Mixed Media on paper (Acrylic paint, modelling paste, gold-painted CD-ROM fragments), 70 × 100 cm

There is a red in Rome that you won't find in any guidebook. It's the red of the walls — historic palazzos and service doors, restored facades and crumbling plaster. An anonymous, omnipresent colour that turns suddenly solemn under sunlight. As if Rome had never stopped building with the same clay.
I covered the paper in modelling paste to recreate that surface — porous, uneven, alive under the fingers. Into the texture I embedded fragments of gold-painted CD-ROMs, broken by hand. When light strikes them, they give back exactly that: the sudden, almost irrational solemnity that certain walls throw at you.
The calligraphic marks belong to no alphabet. They are the words those walls have held for centuries — voices, stories, sounds — translated into signs that can be read without being understood. The way you read an ancient wall without knowing its language.
Second piece in a series about Rome. Not about the monuments — about what outlasts them without making any noise.

Untitled, acrylic paint on wall, 7x2.5m ca.Starry sky, the right company, a bucket of paint, a brush. A bit of silence, ...
25/07/2026

Untitled, acrylic paint on wall, 7x2.5m ca.

Starry sky, the right company, a bucket of paint, a brush. A bit of silence, a bit of cool air while the world's burning up in summer heat. Sounds like little? It never does.

Still, Prince AHA (P.Starck x Kartell Official ) Custom, Mixed MediaThe piece is at IL PRISMA PROPOSTE D'INTERNI in Rimi...
25/07/2026

Still, Prince AHA (P.Starck x Kartell Official ) Custom, Mixed Media

The piece is at IL PRISMA PROPOSTE D'INTERNI in Rimini, part of the Re-Vision Design exhibition celebrating their 50th anniversary — alongside works by other artists, each interpreting the same object in their own way.
But before that — or maybe alongside it — I imagined it here, at home. In a living room, with light coming through the window, next to the ordinary things.

Iconoclast I, Mixed media on canvas (paper collage, acrylic spray, acrylic paint, enamel), 40x30cmIconoclast I opens a s...
25/07/2026

Iconoclast I, Mixed media on canvas (paper collage, acrylic spray, acrylic paint, enamel), 40x30cm

Iconoclast I opens a series built on a single method: images made to be broken. A calligraphic composition, made live on paper during "Furlè-Cèzanne" — the first outdoor collective exhibition organized by Galleria Ex Bar Cristina — is torn apart, reduced to irregular fragments, and reassembled as collage. The torn paper becomes ground, not remainder: the teal-blue surface that carries everything built on top of it.

Over this fractured base, the mark reforms. Acrylic spray, paint, and enamel construct a new composition that does not conceal the rupture beneath it, but exposes it as load-bearing structure. The destruction is not an accident absorbed into the work — it is the work's origin condition.

The gesture is iconoclastic in the literal sense: an image is made, then broken, precisely so that a new image can rise from its fragments. Calligraphy, a discipline built on precision and repair, is dismantled twice — first physically, then compositionally — and rebuilt without any obligation to remain legible. Each work in the series repeats this same act on a different composition, testing how much an image can be destroyed and still generate another.

25/07/2026

The Tiger of Delft, Mixed media on porcelain (acrylic enamel, spray paint, and acrylic paint), 20×36×15cm

The Tiger of Delft stems from a reflection on the value of copies, imitation, and identity.

For this piece, I started with an industrial porcelain figurine—a serial, kitsch object; essentially a "copy of a copy" mass-produced from a mold and stripped of any original soul or story. My goal was to intervene on this blank, hollow surface and redefine it, using my visual language to turn it into a canvas rich with meaning.

The concept and color palette take direct inspiration from Delftware ceramics. In the 17th century, Dutch potters began producing these pieces to imitate the precious porcelain imported from Japan and China, eventually shaping an aesthetic that became an iconic national tradition. I was fascinated by this historical paradox: how an imitation can ultimately elevate itself into cultural heritage.

Across the cobalt blue surface, I layered painterly textures, tags, and lettering in Dutch that spell out words like false and fake. It isn't intended as an insult or critique, but rather as an act of redemption—showing how an artistic gesture can bestow a narrative upon something originally devoid of identity.

To break up the dense blue lettering, I introduced a sharp, minimal block of solid white. It serves as a visual pause in the calligraphic flow, inviting the viewer to reflect on the thin line between what is authentic, what is imitated, and what is re-created.

Total look, Water transfer printing on denimA laundromat is where clothes wait — between one life and the next, suspende...
21/05/2026

Total look, Water transfer printing on denim

A laundromat is where clothes wait — between one life and the next, suspended in a cycle that resets everything. It felt like the right place for a piece I made some time ago and never quite finished looking at. A denim total look, jacket and trousers, entirely covered in calligraphic marks through water-based printing. Nothing here gets erased.

Photography: .montanari.ph
Model:

🎨

Two supernice days of live painting with at , Risoskate 001, acrylic and enamel, their colors, my art.Huge thanks to ...
21/05/2026

Two supernice days of live painting with at ,

Risoskate 001, acrylic and enamel, their colors, my art.

Huge thanks to Risografia for bringing such a beautiful vibe, to Gipsy Garden for the hospitality and honestly one of the nicest spots around, and to Burla, Rospo, Mozoner, Ira, Tomoz, Jatonez, Pixa — was super sharing the weekend with you all 💚

Ember, Site-specific intervention, enamels and acrylic on concrete chimneyI transformed the "Pub" chimney into an incand...
21/05/2026

Ember, Site-specific intervention, enamels and acrylic on concrete chimney

I transformed the "Pub" chimney into an incandescent column. A color that radiates warmth, a warmth that never fades, even after thousands of experiences shared together. For this piece, I wanted to test my first brush-painted gradient, integrating it with the initials of the group of crazy people I love hanging out with. No commissions, just a piece for us, for the moments we love to share together.

A special thanks to .casalboni for always hosting all of this

Cybertopia, 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 80x100 cmCybertopia represents a turning point in my artistic journey. Abstract...
07/04/2026

Cybertopia, 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 80x100 cm

Cybertopia represents a turning point in my artistic journey. Abstract calligraphy, which until now has been at the core of my visual language, here takes on a different role: it becomes part of a wider balance, merging with signs that draw on both abstraction and rationalism. No longer the protagonist, it is one of many tools shaping the composition.

I have always sought harmony and balance between forms and colors, yet I have also perceived the limits of abstract calligraphy: often bound to the expectation of a literal meaning, or reduced to mere decoration. For me, however, decoration is not art. Art must carry a sense, a thought, a message that can be shared.

Cybertopia gathers reflections and contradictions, transforming them into signs that do not coexist in harmony but in contrast. At times they collide, overlap, obscure one another—just as I feel the need to free myself from my own method and from the awareness I have built throughout my career. I want to move beyond the pursuit of the perfect mark and open myself to what is fragile, incomplete, and imperfect.

A work that reflects the tension of our time: an era marked by deep contradictions, unacceptable and yet paradoxically perceived as normal.

Displayed at the Exhibition in Milan, from January 23rd to the 26th.

Available for sale.

🎨

05/04/2026

Some things align when you least expect it. For my upcoming show at CoCA, Seattle, I had the chance to work with the risography world built by Enrico De Luigi and Walter Costa — and it felt immediately right. Their philosophy and approach to aesthetics reflect a lot of what I'm pursuing in my own practice: the idea that imperfection is not a flaw to correct, but a value to seek. Every risographic print carries micro-variations that make it unique, and that sits perfectly with my ongoing obsession with finding beauty through error.

A heartfelt thank you to Enrico and Walter for bringing my work into a completely new dimension — and for being such wonderful people to meet along the way.

About Swinging tells my personal mantra — I'll share the full meaning once the works are officially out. It comes in two versions, Positive and Negative, in a limited edition of 40 prints each, A4.

Available soon for purchase — DM me to check availability.

Address


Website

, , htt

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Giacomo Drudi posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

  • Want your business to be the top-listed Advertising & Marketing Company?

Share