{"title":"Guido Zappoli - Zapart","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1967 in Bologna, “in the shadow of the Two Towers.” He signs his contemporary art works under the pseudonym \u003cstrong\u003eZapArt\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe school of fish, a central motif\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA school of fish appears in almost all his work. Hundreds of small, colorful fish come together in geometric mosaics to form a large predator (\u003cem\u003eEl Desayuno\u003c\/em\u003e) or a red heart beating against a black background (\u003cem\u003eEl Corazón\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCupído\u003c\/em\u003e). 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeather, worked like couture fabric\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the floral series, the technique comes close to haute couture. For \u003cem\u003eLetra\u003c\/em\u003e, Guido designs and shapes leather flowers, then his wife patiently sews them by hand to form the letters of the alphabet. \u003cem\u003eFlores de Cala\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMariposa\u003c\/em\u003e, made of hundreds of small sewn butterflies, and \u003cem\u003eElla\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEllas\u003c\/em\u003e play with texture, light, and volume. Two works, \u003cem\u003eFlowers Power\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eViva la Vida\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToward pop art and resin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2025, the \u003cem\u003eAnómalo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOptimismo Colectivo\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in Spanish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis works have Spanish titles in tribute to his friend and collaborator Adriano, whose thirty years in Mexico had a profound influence on his imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareer and awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the \u003cstrong\u003eLMquadrinpelle\u003c\/strong\u003e project, ZapArt has exhibited at numerous national and international art fairs. In 2024, at \u003cstrong\u003eArtePadova\u003c\/strong\u003e, he took \u003cstrong\u003e4th place in the 12th edition of the Contemporary Art Talent Award\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cupido","title":"Cupido","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eCupído\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/collections\/guido-zappoli-zapart\" title=\"Guido Zappoli\"\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/a\u003e 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 fish rises in regular rows from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner. This stream evokes the neutrality of everyday life and the collective movement that keeps going without question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt the center, the school encounters the force of love and transforms. The fish leave the diagonal and line up horizontally. Their black gives way to color, and they arrange themselves to form a large heart. The gradient shifts from dusty pink at the top to intense coral red at the tip. The color seems to gradually ignite, like an emotion growing until it fills everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe entire work rests on contrasts in texture. The glossy black leather of the everyday fish catches the light and reflects deep highlights. The heart’s matte, velvety leather, by contrast, absorbs the light and lends it an almost sensual softness. Each fish is die-cut and then applied by hand with millimeter precision. The school motif, ZapArt’s signature, serves a simple, universal idea: a surge of emotional energy is enough to sweep up a group and set it on a new course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe title, in Spanish like all the artist’s works, pays tribute to his friend Adriano and his thirty years in Mexico. It refers to Cupid, the god whose arrow awakens love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Zappoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61268904771918,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/files\/ZapArt_011-new-cover.jpg?v=1793810542"},{"product_id":"el-corazon","title":"El Corazón","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eEl Corazón\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/collections\/guido-zappoli-zapart\" title=\"Guido Zappoli\"\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/a\u003e 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 fish in glossy black leather swim in tightly packed rows, all in the same direction. They look like an anonymous, orderly, silent crowd going about its daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt the center, part of the school changes color and turns bright red. Without breaking the overall rhythm, these fish arrange themselves into a large heart that seems to beat in the middle of the dark canvas. The contrast between black and red conveys the work’s message. Love, empathy, and solidarity emerge as forces capable of bringing order and harmony to chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNear the top of the heart, a single little red fish swims apart, smaller than the others. For the artist, it is a metaphor for individuality that has not yet joined the common heartbeat. It is a tender touch, and also a question posed to everyone: finding one’s place in the collective heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe entire work plays with black on black. The glossy fish catch the light and change depending on the viewing angle. Their reflections shift from deep black to dark green shades, standing out against the matte grain of the background. Each silhouette is cut with a punch and then applied by hand, giving the surface a vibrant, almost relief-like texture. Its full richness can be appreciated when seeing the work in person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Spanish title, \u003cem\u003eEl Corazón\u003c\/em\u003e (“the heart”), pays tribute to Adriano, the artist’s friend and collaborator, who spent thirty years in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Zappoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61268978794830,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/files\/ZapArt_012-new-cover.jpg?v=1793810344"},{"product_id":"corazoncito","title":"El Corazoncito","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl Corazoncito\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate, geometric variation on the theme of love, one of the recurring threads in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/collections\/guido-zappoli-zapart\" title=\"Guido Zappoli\"\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/a\u003e’s work. Here, the artist replaces his school-of-fish motif with a universal symbol, the heart, and creates a play of mise en abyme. Against a smooth, deep black leather background, nearly two hundred and fifty small red hearts line up in staggered rows to form one large heart. Each retains its own shape, and together they create a shared heartbeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEach small heart is cut from patent red leather with a punch, then applied by hand using double-sided tape. The glossy finish plays a central role: depending on the viewing angle and the light, the hearts glow with pearly, pink or almost white reflections, before returning to a deep red. The surface seems to move, as though the shape were gently vibrating. By contrast, the matte black background absorbs the light and brings out the large heart with great elegance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIts compact square format of 40 × 40 cm makes it a piece that is both striking and intimate, easy to hang in a bedroom, living room or office. It is also a meaningful gift idea for celebrating love or friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe title plays on the Spanish language, paying tribute to Adriano, an artist friend who lived in Mexico for thirty years. \u003cem\u003eCorazoncito\u003c\/em\u003e, “little heart,” is a common term of endearment in Mexico. It refers both to the size of the artwork and to the hundreds of small hearts that make it up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Zappoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61269038793038,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/files\/ZapArt_033-new-cover.jpg?v=1793812648"},{"product_id":"flowers-power","title":"Flowers Power","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers Power\u003c\/em\u003e holds a piece of international fashion history. The work was born from a meeting: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/collections\/guido-zappoli-zapart\" title=\"Guido Zappoli\"\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/a\u003e. met a designer, a collaborator of his friend Adriano, who spent 35 years handcrafting flowers for the most prestigious haute couture houses. Her large drawers overflowed with unique samples: prototypes, collector’s items, designs never produced in series. Fascinated by this treasure, the artist selected these creations one by one to give them a second life on canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe result is a lush garden, an explosion of colors, shapes, and textures that covers the entire surface and even spills beyond the frame. Several hundred flowers mingle here: camellias, roses, poppies, peonies, hibiscus, and pansies. They are not placed at random. The artist grouped them into color zones that echo one another and blend together. On the left, bold reds and burgundies. At the top, ochres and yellows. In the upper right, deep blues, turquoises, and greens. In the lower right, dusty pinks, fuchsias, and lilacs. At the bottom, a soft wave of ivory and white. At the center, like the heart of the work, a vortex of black flowers opens up, a velvety void that gives depth and dimension to everything around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe materials are exceptionally rich: smooth and nappa leather, suede, patent leather, leopard and python prints, metallic gold leaf, frayed tulle, braided straw, sequins, beads, and embroidered stamens. Each flower bears witness to exceptional craftsmanship, with sculpted petals, carefully worked edges, and intricately detailed centers. Together, they form a vibrant bas-relief where the light catches every fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThese materials and pieces are no longer available today, making \u003cem\u003eFlowers Power\u003c\/em\u003e unique and impossible to reproduce. Its title is a nod to the famous slogan of the 1960s. This time, the flower itself becomes a manifesto: fragments of haute couture destined to sleep in archives are reborn in contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Zappoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61269069562190,"sku":null,"price":9000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/files\/20261018-154829.jpg?v=1792331323"},{"product_id":"el-desayuno","title":"Breakfast","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHundreds of brightly colored little fish swim together, eventually forming the silhouette of an enormous predatory fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt first glance, you see a large, colorful fish with a gleaming eye and an open mouth. But as you get closer, you discover that it is actually made up of a multitude of little fish—yellow, red, blue, pink, or green—all united in the same movement. Behind it, a school of black fish seems to be heading in the same direction, as if to join the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe artwork plays with the laws of nature and reverses the roles: those that would normally be prey become stronger than the predator itself through their unity. Facing them, a lone dark fish seems about to be swallowed. The title, “El Desayuno” (“Breakfast”), adds a touch of humor and irony: the hunter has become the meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe contrast between the group’s bright colors and the isolated fish’s blackness reinforces the artwork’s message: alone, you can be vulnerable, but together, you can achieve the impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAgainst a deep black background, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/collections\/guido-zappoli-zapart\" title=\"Guido Zappoli\"\u003eGuido Zappoli\u003c\/a\u003e combines matte, glossy, and metallic textures to give each fish depth and life. A graphic, energetic artwork that celebrates the strength of community and solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Zappoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61304214716750,"sku":null,"price":1400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/files\/20261021-091307.jpg?v=1792566968"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/3156\/6158\/collections\/guido.jpg?v=1792313503","url":"https:\/\/popart-gallery.fr\/en\/collections\/guido-zappoli-shoes.oembed","provider":"Galerie d'art dédiée au Pop Art et au Street Art - Pop Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}