Emanuele Antonelli, also known as Ema, was born in Rome in 1990. He felt a particular attraction towards drawing as a child when he began making his first doodles (doodles or doodles). Over the years this passion remains very strong and he will continue to indulge it throughout his study period in “Hotel Management”. He travels to study between Switzerland, Spain, and Great Britain where he comes into contact with the artistic life of the cities and stores ideas and reflections which he will then pour onto his canvases. After studying abroad he decided to return to his hometown, where he dedicated himself completely to art, perfecting the techniques of his doodles. Over the years, Emanuele’s interest in art has focused on painting, passing through technical drawing with ink and water pens. Emanuele’s desire to represent the unseen and states of mind flows into abstract painting when he creates his first series of works entitled Time Tickle. Here the artist represents fragments of pixels on canvas that refer to real environments and places from his past, but broken down and reassembled. The analysis of memory, its perception and its representation continues with the second series of canvases entitled Time Frame.
Another food for thought for Ema is aestheticism and its transposition into fashion. Precisely the representation of women and men with flashy clothes made up of doodles is the basis of his third and final series Doodle People. All the people depicted in this way are smiling and with their eyes closed, giving the viewer a sense of happiness and complicity. These fantastic representations symbolize a personal satisfaction that does not derive from the judgment of others, but from feeling good about oneself, in one’s own skin and in one’s personal taste. This is expressed by the large headdresses and flashy, uncommon clothes that express a sense of uniqueness. The Doodle People series reveals an oriental influence, learned by Emanuele in his frequent trips to China and Japan, places where, according to the artist, true elegance is present which does not stop at the clothes or the way in which they they are perceived, but it goes much further. Over the years he collaborates with Monocromo Contemporary Art, which deals with sales and supports emerging artists with offices in Italy and abroad. At the Spoleto Arte 2023 exhibition he won the Fine Arts Award which also gave him the title of Master, awarded by a jury composed, among others, of Francesco Alberoni, Giordano Bruno Guerri, Salvo Nugnes, Rossana Po-tenza, Vittorio Sgarbi, Antonino Zichichi . In November 2023 it will be present at the Milan Biennale (together with Art Factory) and in December at the Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Rome.
Waves and runways 