Alessandro Pennasilico
He took his diploma in 1981 at the Art college of Verona. He soon started working as a graphic designer and illustrator for the publishing, advertisement and cartoon industry in an office in Rome. Since 1985 he works as a free-lance for the publishing industry of books and periodicals, schools creations, paper-transformation industry, gadgets, advertisements, business promotion and communication.
Since 1987 he contributes to the publishing house Demetra, which is part of the publisher Giunti (Firenze), working as an illustrator and graphic designer and editing the edition of about 100 hundred different types of publications.
As an author he has written more than 30 books ranging from texts regarding manual and artistic techniques, collections of aphorisms and pictorial books.
As keen scholar and collector of cinema memorabilia, since 1998 he manages the ten volumes of the Atlanti del cinema (Atlases of cinema)- Giunti-Demetra -, being responsible for the graphic designs, the layout and the iconographical research.
From 1993 he starts to works with the company Gardaland in Castelnuovo del Garda (Verona). For this company he designs and creates numerous prototypes with the shape of the mascot of the park, Prezzemolo (Parsley) the dragon, some of which are part of a limited and numbered series, for merchandising production.
Since 2000 he owns the studiolab Alkemy Art.
Alessandro Pennasilico is the creator of the cartoon series “Gatti con le ali” (Cats with wings) inspired by an aphorism of the actor Dick Shawn: “Would it be possible for cats to have wings, they would not be birds, they’d be angels”. The idea of a black cat, which has always been linked to obscurity and all sorts of spells, with a pair of angel like wings, thus just the opposite, resulted in 1996. “Gatti con le ali” debut with a series of appealing and successful good whishes cards. Thus, came a book, calendars, bookmarks and gift-wrapping paper all containing sentences, aphorisms and lines by philosophers, writers, authors belonging to that century.
