Tellas^IT

Tellas was born in 1985 in Cagliari, Sardinia.
His artistic journey begins in the harsh lands where he grew up.
His work is a personal and intimate vision of the natural elements defining the landscape around him. Each piece is the result of a meditative process combining spatial qualities, shapes and species of the surrounding environment.

He expresses his style through various means. His use of drawing, painting, printing techniques, installations and audio-video production confirms his aim to create and experiment with different art forms.

He participated in many international events. Among the most remarkable there are the La Tour Paris Project, 2013, considered one of the most innovative contemporary art projects worldwide, and Artmossphere, the first Street Art Biennale held in Moscow in 2014, featuring 70 artists from all over the world.

In 2015 his work appeared in The Urban Contemporary Art Guide, edited by the Graffiti Art Magazine, where he ranked amongst the world’s best 100 emerging artists of 2015. The same year he completed an extensive public artwork in Cagliari, Italian Capital of Culture back then. In Rome he took part in Here, Now, sixth edition of the city’s Outdoor Festival, while his personal show Clima Estremo was held at Wunderkammern Gallery.

The following year he completed several important public artworks in Spain, Finland, and Australia, respectively in Madrid, Helsinki, Albany and Perth.

In 2017 he was in Australia again, working at the mural The Barrier in Townsville, Queensland. Later that year, this piece inspired his exhibition Tropico, held at the Magma Gallery, Bologna.

Again in Bologna, in 2019, he exhibited his solo exhibition “Lago” with a new body of works curated by the Magma Gallery.

In 2019, together with the Press Press editions, he published “notes” a collection of 180 drawings in a limited edition of only 300 copies.

In 2020, Tellas exhibited in San Francisco at the Legion Project Art Gallery, then in Amsterdam in 2021 at the STRAAT Museum on the occasion of the solo exhibition “Out There Somewhere”.

In 2021 he was invited by Paratissima Art Fair to create a work on a large surface that covers the courtyard of the Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Artiglieria, on the occasion of its reopening in Turin, Italy.

In 2023 he took part on the show “Labirinto” at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Lucca, with Moneyless and StenLex.

In addition to Palermo, Rome and other Italian cities, the latest works can be found in Atlanta (USA), Klaipeda (Lithuania), Delhi (India), Montreal (Canada) and Kaohsiung (Taiwan), France, Ireland and Spain.

His artistic production also includes significant partnerships with important Italian fashion brands, including Marni and Baracuta. In particular, the multiple collaborations with Marni resulted in the documentary A grande terra do Sertão, presented at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Tellas’ work is represented by Wunderkammern Gallery, Magma Gallery, Andenken Gallery and Rhodes Contemporary in London.