BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chico attended Wembley high school in North Wembley, then he went to study Interior Design at Willeseden Tech College B/TEC diploma.
1994/95 Art Fondation City Lit.
Holborn London
1995/98 BA Degree Fine Art
Printmaking & Photo Media Central Saint Martin School of Arts
1999/08 Studio Practice - Bubble
wrap arts- Panther House 38
Mount pleasent, London WC1
Chico is now working and living between London and Tuscany, Italy, where he's got family and friends. That's why he's been having many exhibitions in Italy. Up next the EXPO 2020 IN DUBAI, with the collaboration of Giammarco Puntelli, famous italian Contemporary Art critic.
EXHIBITIONS
1998 Beyond Skin/ Identities
2008 Culture vs nature - Richmix Arts
Centre Bethnal Green rd.London
2009 Bling City & Human Traffic
Cable Street Gallery, Lime House
London
2017 Bel Canto in Barga Gallery,
Tuscany, Italy
2017 Group exhibition Biennale
d'Arte Contemporanea di Massa
e Montignoso, Tuscany
2018 Mar Biennale Arte Contemporanea
Lake Como, Italy
2018 Apr 22" Collettiva d'Arte Contemp.
Galleria Farini, Bologna
2018 SPRING Choises of Puntelli Tour
First show in Gubbio, May/June
2018 JUNE UV-LIZE exhibition in
Palazzo Pancrazi, Barga, Tuscany
2018 SUMMER Choises of Puntelli Tour
Second show in Carrara
2018 Special show of The Choises of
Puntelli in Anghiari
2018AUTUMN Choises of Puntelli Tour
Third show in Tivoli
2018 Sept/Oct PACE & AMORE
exhibition in the big mosque in Rome Editoriale GIORGIO MONDADORI
(Giorgio Mondadori Catalogue)
2019 MARCH/APRIL Infinity Accademy
Project in Sabbioneta, Italy
Giorgio Mondadori Catalogue
2019 May Exhibition of The Journal
of Barga - Collective
Chico Molo is a dynamic mixed media artist living and working in Clerkenwell, London. Describing himself as “a conduit, a medium for all things, both material and immaterial to have a voice”, he combines painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking to create unique new forms of expression. Organic processes and exploration of new and unusual materials are central to Chico’s work. He explains “I became an artist, when the work came through me and not from me. It wasn’t when I finished art school or when I rented a studio. I am always learning and frequently surprised – often in a good way by the un-contrived outcome that the freedom to ‘become’ allows”. Found objects, scraps of metal, plastic, fabric, ceramics or wood are transformed into new multi-layered forms and textures. Even recognisable objects like a spoon or clothes peg find their way on to the canvas and take on new life as a figure or landmark in Chico’s abstract and imagined urban landscapes.
Born in Jamaica in 1960, Chico arrived in London five years later. Removed from an environment that was shaped by the forces of nature he felt a sense of alienation among this unyielding concrete, metal and glass facades of the sprawling city. His early connection with nature, lead to a quest to look beyond the surface and identify the organic elements beneath – to relate to the city as an organism that lives and breathes.
Chico believes the voice and meaning of the work is larger than him self. Making sure its voice is heard is important.Chico wants his artistic practice to have a positive influence on others in the community and beyond. His charitable organisation Bubble-wrap Arts employs young artists to hold workshops in schools and youth clubs to create their own ‘Bling’ cityscapes. Future projects include establishing a larger studio space to carry out a planned large-scale series of work.
From the Catalogue of the exhibition in Bologna to the Farini Gallery where he exhibited "SHE", the painting you can see above:
"Chico Molo abandons all the conventionalities and, intentionally, acts outside their range, connecting a different range of explorations that takes place through the experimentation of the media mixing: print, collage, sculpture and painting interact according to an innovative model, as it happens also for the colors, with which the artist plays superlatively. In this continuous exchange that looks at contemporary cross-media, never fails a sign of Nature, as laso happens in SHE. In this painting the attentive eye of the public will discover a detail, a call that refers to a message really important for the artist: there are signs within the work that represent both culture and nature. Here, therefore, that Chico tries to build a new skin for the humanity, in the context of an identity research respectful of the world we live, the alpha and omega of our passage. The sign, as a human trace, becomes an allegory that Chico Molo investigates in a profound way reaching the creation of works that speak in images and concepts, opening a private dialogue with the observer.