Cupido, 2024
Painting : leather · 80 x 100 x 6 cm 31.5 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch · Ready to hang
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
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80 x 100 x 6 cm 31.5 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
With "Cupido", Guido Zappoli captures the precise moment when love bursts in and changes the course of things. An invisible diagonal cuts across the charcoal-grey canvas. Along it, a tight school of glossy black leather fish rises in orderly rows from the lower left corner toward the upper right. This flow evokes the neutrality of everyday life and the collective movement that carries on without asking questions.
At the center, the school meets the force of love and is transformed. The fish leave the diagonal and swing back to the horizontal. Their black gives way to color, and they gather to form a large heart. The gradient runs from powder pink at the top to an intense coral red at the tip. The color seems to catch fire little by little, like an emotion that grows until it fills everything.
The whole work is built on contrasts of material. The black patent leather of the everyday fish catches the light and gives off deep reflections. The matte, velvety leather of the heart absorbs the light instead and gives it an almost sensual softness. Each fish is die-cut and then applied by hand with millimetric precision. Here the school-of-fish motif, a ZapArt signature, serves a simple, universal idea: a single surge of emotional energy is enough to overwhelm a group and send it in a new direction.
The title is in Spanish, like all of the artist's works, as a tribute to his friend Adriano and the thirty years he spent in Mexico. It refers to Cupid, the god whose arrow awakens love.
Presentation
Guido Zappoli was born in 1967 in Bologna, “in the shadow of the Two Towers." He signs his contemporary artworks under the pseudonym ZapArt. His work combines genuine craftsmanship with a symbolic vision. His material of choice is leather, which he die-cuts, heat-moulds, crumples, gathers and hand-stitches onto canvas or leather backings. More recently, he has added vinyl and resin to his palette.
The school of fish, a central motif
The school of fish recurs in almost all of his work. Hundreds of small, colourful 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 the balance of power: 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, his technique comes close to haute couture. For Letra, Guido designs and shapes leather flowers, which his wife then patiently hand-stitches to form the letters of the alphabet. Flores de Cala, Mariposa (made of hundreds of tiny stitched butterflies), as well as Ella and Ellas, play with relief, light and volume. Two works, Flowers Power and Viva la Vida, were born from a rare encounter: a designer who handcrafted flowers for major haute couture houses for 35 years. ZapArt gave a second life to the one-of-a-kind samples from her drawers. These materials can no longer be found today, which makes these pieces impossible to reproduce.
Towards pop and resin
In 2025, the Anómalo and Optimismo Colectivo series opened a new chapter. Airbrushed backgrounds, crisply cut vinyl silhouettes and a pour of clear, glass-effect resin give his compositions a graphic, almost digital look, without losing the precision of the handmade gesture.
Spanish titles
His works bear Spanish titles in tribute to his friend and collaborator Adriano, whose thirty years in Mexico deeply shaped 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 prize.
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