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Breakfast
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Hundreds of brightly colored little fish swim together, eventually forming the silhouette of an enormous predatory fish. At first glance, you see a large, colorful fish with a gleaming eye and an open mouth. But as you get clos...
Flowers Power
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Flowers Power
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Flowers Power holds a piece of international fashion history. The work was born from a meeting: Guido Zappoli. met a designer, a collaborator of his friend Adriano, who spent 35 years handcrafting flowers for the most prestigio...
El Corazoncito
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El Corazoncito
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El Corazoncito is an intimate, geometric variation on the theme of love, one of the recurring threads in Guido Zappoli’s work. Here, the artist replaces his school-of-fish motif with a universal symbol, the heart, and creates a...
El Corazón
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El Corazón
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With El Corazón, Guido Zappoli presents one of the most emblematic pieces in his body of work: a school of fish as a metaphor for collective life. A grainy black leather background covers the entire surface. Hundreds of little ...
Cupido
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Cupido
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With Cupído, Guido Zappoli captures the precise moment when love appears and changes the course of things. An invisible diagonal cuts across the anthracite-gray canvas. Along it, a tightly packed school of glossy black leather ...
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Guido Zappoli (ZapArt) – Contemporary leather & vinyl artist

Guido Zappoli was born in 1967 in Bologna, “in the shadow of the Two Towers.” He signs his contemporary art works under the pseudonym ZapArt. His work combines true artisanal expertise with a symbolic vision. His material of choice is leather, which he cuts with a punch, molds with heat, crumples, gathers, and sews by hand onto canvas or leather supports. More recently, he has added vinyl and resin.

The school of fish, a central motif
A school of fish appears in almost all his work. Hundreds of small, colorful fish come together in geometric mosaics to form a large predator (El Desayuno) or a red heart beating against a black background (El Corazón, Cupído). Through this motif, ZapArt reverses power dynamics: the fragile individual finds strength in the collective, and love becomes the energy that brings order to chaos.

Leather, worked like couture fabric
In the floral series, the technique comes close to haute couture. For Letra, Guido designs and shapes leather flowers, then his wife patiently sews them by hand to form the letters of the alphabet. Flores de Cala, Mariposa, made of hundreds of small sewn butterflies, and Ella and Ellas play with texture, light, and volume. Two works, Flowers Power and Viva la Vida, were born of a rare encounter: a creator who had spent 35 years making flowers by hand for major haute couture houses. ZapArt gave a second life to the unique samples in her drawers. These materials can no longer be found, making these pieces impossible to recreate.

Toward pop art and resin
In 2025, the Anómalo and Optimismo Colectivo series mark a new phase. Airbrushed backgrounds, vinyl silhouettes with crisp cuts, and clear resin poured to create a glass effect give his compositions a graphic, almost digital look, without losing the precision of the handwork.

Titles in Spanish
His works have Spanish titles in tribute to his friend and collaborator Adriano, whose thirty years in Mexico had a profound influence on his imagination.

Career and awards
With the LMquadrinpelle project, ZapArt has exhibited at numerous national and international art fairs. In 2024, at ArtePadova, he took 4th place in the 12th edition of the Contemporary Art Talent Award.

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