{"id":2997,"date":"2020-02-15T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/?post_type=portfolio_page&#038;p=2997"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:36:24","slug":"maicolmirco-stefano-pace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_page","link":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/page\/maicolmirco-stefano-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Maicol&#038;Mirco + Stefano Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2997\" class=\"elementor elementor-2997\" data-elementor-post-type=\"portfolio_page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f3b4239 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"1f3b4239\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5bc58bda\" data-id=\"5bc58bda\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1432f515 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1432f515\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2998 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Stefano-Pace-e1581777737523.png\" alt=\"Stefano Pace, ArtBridge artist\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><strong>Stefano Pace<\/strong> lives in L&#8217;Aquila and is a self-taught cartoonist. During the day he works as a software developer while at night and in his spare time he leaves the digital world and is armed with paper, pen and colored crayons to draw characters who seem to suffer the weight of gravity, champions of a type of nonsense comedy. His strips deal with issues by staging an absurd theater, in which the narrative is harsh, imbued with cynicism and disillusionment, punctually without a happy ending. For the scaffolding of the &#8220;De Amicis&#8221; school, Pace offers us &#8220;M&#8217;illudo d&#8217;immenso&#8221;: a table where his bizarre characters come out as if by magic from the open backpack of a running kid. They all have large, asymmetrical and melancholy eyes, and dress colors faded by hand with pencils. It is difficult to remain indifferent to them or not to feel sympathy for their surreal presence.<\/p><p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3003 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Michele-Rocchetti.jpg\" alt=\"Michele Rocchetti, ArtBridge artist\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Michele-Rocchetti.jpg 528w, https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Michele-Rocchetti-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Maicol &amp; Mirco<\/em>, pseudonym of <strong>Michele Rocchetti<\/strong>, is a professor of comic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in L&#8217;Aquila. On this scaffolding he carries in large format a drawing taken from his famous series &#8220;The Scribbles of Maicol &amp; Mirco&#8221;, a comic daily tragedy that takes place every day on the homonymous Facebook page, recently published also on paper in the volumes ARGH and SOB. The narrative of the Scribbles is always unexpected, as if it were independent of the will of its author (or spectator) to control it. For Off Site Art, Maicol experiments with a new version of his Scribbles, isolating a single board to make it sink into the thoughts of passers-by. The stroke is, as always, a sketch on a red background, which does not rely on a preparatory drawing: fast, expressive, essential, universal. I live. It is impossible for the reader not to fall into it, feel its energy and activate his imagination to complete the missing descriptive parts.<\/p><h5>Exhibitions: <strong><a class=\"vce-google-fonts-heading-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/portfolio_page\/due-a-due\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff1c1c;\">Due a Due<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88f8e0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_simple_quote\" data-id=\"88f8e0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_simple_quote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-holder qode-simple-quote-enabled-shadow\">\n\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-triangle-shadow\">\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-triangle\" >\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-holder-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-icon-holder\"  style=\"fill: #000000\">\n\t\t\t<svg x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" width=\"118px\" height=\"97px\" viewBox=\"0 0 118 97\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 118 97\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n\t\t\t\t<g>\n\t\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M31.1,73.998c5.688-7.111,8.535-14.316,8.535-21.617c0-3.09-0.371-5.751-1.113-7.978c-4.332,3.34-9.031,5.009-14.102,5.009\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc-6.929,0-12.71-2.194-17.349-6.586c-4.639-4.389-6.958-10.298-6.958-17.72c0-6.926,2.348-12.71,7.051-17.349\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc4.7-4.639,10.452-6.958,17.256-6.958c9.77,0,17.256,4.021,22.451,12.061c4.329,6.68,6.494,15.029,6.494,25.049\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc0,12.742-3.247,24.154-9.741,34.234C37.13,82.227,27.325,90.357,14.215,96.541l-3.525-6.865\n\t\t\t\t\t\tC18.604,86.336,25.409,81.113,31.1,73.998z M95.67,73.998c5.688-7.111,8.535-14.316,8.535-21.617c0-3.09-0.371-5.751-1.113-7.978\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc-4.206,3.34-8.906,5.009-14.102,5.009c-6.804,0-12.556-2.194-17.256-6.586c-4.702-4.389-7.051-10.298-7.051-17.72\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc0-4.575,1.113-8.721,3.34-12.432s5.195-6.616,8.906-8.721c3.711-2.102,7.729-3.154,12.061-3.154\n\t\t\t\t\t\tc9.771,0,17.256,4.021,22.451,12.061c4.329,6.68,6.494,15.029,6.494,25.049c0,12.742-3.247,24.154-9.741,34.234\n\t\t\t\t\t\tC101.7,82.227,91.896,90.357,78.785,96.541l-3.525-6.865C83.175,86.336,89.979,81.113,95.67,73.998z\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/g>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-content-holder\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-content-holder-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-text-holder\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"qode-simple-quote-text-title\"> A symbol for the De Amicis school and all the schools that have yet to be rebuilt.  <\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"qode-simple-quote-author-holder\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"qode-simple-quote-author-title\">   <\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Pace lives in L&#8217;Aquila and is a self-taught cartoonist. 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