Emiliano Perino (born in New York in 1973) and Luca Vele (born in Rotondi in 1975). They live and work in Rotondi (Campania).

Twentysix of artistic partnership. Twentysix of patient research and investigation on the sculptural language. Perino&Vele have always played with the ability of the viewers to recognize in their sculptures a reference to their daily reality, to the objects that surround them, to the situations that they trigger but showing them through a new light and perspective. Essential tool for their practise is the papier-mache. Their vision, iconic yet ironic at the same time, is based on a sculpture’s process to be understood as a decomposition and reconstruction of the matter itself: from the pulp of paper, necessary operation to be made in order to produce the papier- mâché, to its reshaping which lend to create forms with deeper meanings. They mill newspapers of various colours, recycle the pages in a mixture of words and images, a media mixture that, once shaped, returns to communicate as a work of art. Each sculpture is silent but tells a lot of what surrounds it, it is a critical and autonomous exercise on society, on current events, on the contemporary art system, it becomes an action towards the reality. Sarcasm, a polemic vein and a deep ethical sense always remain present in their works even when the subjects diversify a lot. Within the years, the art works are getting more and more monumental, once again ironically opposing themselves to the material that constitutes its form. The two artists have develop a very recognizable and unmistakable style, nourished by continuous counterpoints and paradoxes that become symbols of this clash and encounter of different instances that bring out masterfully their artistic personality.