Italian, contemporary.
Born 1966, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
A native of southern Italy's Reggio Calabria province, Domenico Zindato studied theater design in Rome, before withdrawing from university to devote his time to art. In the 1980s, Zindato lived and worked in Berlin, where his interests in photography, theater, music, performance, and image-making came together in multi-media events he organized for the emblematic venues of Berlin's post-Punk nightlife. After leaving Europe, he traveled throughout India and Mexico, finally settling in Mexico City. After a decade in the Mexican capital, Zindato moved to his current residence in Cuernavaca.
A master draftsman, Zindato has developed a labor-intensive, meticulously detailed drawing technique, using nib pens and fine-haired brushes on paper, to create semi-abstract images packed with mysterious motifs and elaborate patterns. Set against brightly colored backgrounds, Zindato's
drawings read, from a distance, as abstract. Viewed closely, however, they reveal the artist's intricate pattern-making, with its dynamic swirls, eddies, and enigmatic symbols: eyeballs, floating heads, wave-like ripples and hand-drawn letters. At once extremely precise in its execution and meditative in spirit, Zindato's art suggests affinities with pre-historic cave paintings, aboriginal art, Buddhist mandalas and Native American decorative patterns. Zindato's palette has aborbed the colors of his travels in India and Mexico...vivid ochres, blues, greens and pinks.
- Courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019, Summer Exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2018, Actually Weird, Underdonk, Brooklyn
2016, 31, Nixon, Mexico City
2013, Domenico Zindato: Recent Drawings, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2010, Domenico Zindato, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2007, Domenico Zindato, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2004, Domenico Zindato, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2000, Domenico Zindato, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019, Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
2016, As Essential As Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither, The Menil Colection, Houston
2016, World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2014, En el umbral (y sólo a unos pasos de la dimensión sublime de la belleza), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
2012, Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
2011, Pulse Miami, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Miami
2010, Art Forum Berlin, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Berlin
2010, Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum, New York
2009, In Through the Out Door, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2005, Interior Motives, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2003, Write On, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie
2001, Hands Across the Sea, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Selected Collections
American Folk Art Museum, New York
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Menil Collection, Houston
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Phildelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Selected Bibliography
Domenico Zindato: Recent Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Andrew Edlin Gallery, 2013.
Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, exhibition catalogue, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 2012.
Russell, Charles, Groundwaters: A Century of Self-Taught and Outsider Artists, Prestel, New York, 2011.
Goméz, Edward, "Domenico Zindato's Mysterious, Magical World," Raw Vision, #58, 2007.
Goméz, Edward, "Discovering Art With the Aura of the Outsider," New York Times, February 20, 2000.