Sebastian De Gobbis

Born on December 24, 1971, in Beirut, Sebastian De Gobbis moved from Venice to Verona as a teenager, where he attended art school. Over the years, he became involved with artistic and cultural circles and decided to devote himself entirely to painting. In the barcode, Sebastian De Gobbis sees a symbol of our era, a reflection of the complexity and contradiction that surrounds us. As an ancient form of recording and communication, it speaks to us of a world where identity and information are reduced to a series of lines and numbers. Yet, in this world of abstraction and technology, the artist also sees a profound beauty, a beauty born from the contradiction between the artificial and the natural. His paintings are a reflection of this beauty, an attempt to capture the essence of our era and explore its depths.

He has created a unique and incisive artistic form, the result of a profound reflection on the history of art and the nature of art itself. Like an alchemist trying to turn lead into gold, he sought to transform the barcode into art, to infuse meaning and beauty into what had been reduced to mere information. His work is a commentary on our era, a reflection of our obsession with technology and information. But it is also a tribute to the power of art, which can take the banal and make it sublime, the common and make it extraordinary.