Domenico Zindato

Domenico Zindato (born 1966) is an Italian self-taught artist and draftsman who currently resides in Cuernevaca, Mexico.

Domenico Zindato was born in 1966 in southern Italy’s Reggio Calabria province. He briefly studied law in Rome at "La Sapienza" University, before changing his focus to theater and cinema studies. After moving briefly to Milan, Zindato relocated to Berlin in 1988.

While in Berlin, Zindato continued to explore his interests in theater, music and performance and establish his own artistic identity. While managing a disco he also hosted his own cabaret-like performance that he describes as being influenced by Dada and Surrealism. After leaving Europe, he traveled throughout Mexico, settling in the capital Mexico city and then later Cuernavaca.

Zindato’s work is difficult to pin down into a predefined category, though he is often linked to the outsider-art, self-taught contemporary art fields. He has been represented and shown by galleries in New York, Paris, Berlin, Italy, Mexico City. 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, resulting in an interlocking visual experience of micro and macro dimensions.His method has earned him the admiration of connoisseurs of self-taught art. His art reflects the colors of his travels in India, Mexico, Haiti, Morocco, between others, and suggests affinities with pre-historic cave paintings, indigenous cultures, shamanism, African textiles, Australian Aboriginal art, Middle-Ages illuminated manuscripts, 20th century spiritualism, Psychelic iconography, Buddhist Mandalas, Native-American decorative patterns.