Misterious Doc #4 Keter 2025 CN "Black Judge"
Giulio Napoletano
The mysterious black judge holds a crown in in one hand and supports a cage with another. The black judge, on the top of a hill, observes the other subject passing under his eyes, all the subjects have their head covered in some way. Who will get a crown will have his/her/their cage.
My name is Giulio Napoletano, I’m born in Naples (Italy) and I’m a painter
and illustrator based in Antwerp, Belgium. I studied painting at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp and specialized in figurative
painting. I graduated in 2018. During my student time at the academy
I started to show my works around Italy and Belgium (in one occasion,
in Strasbourg, France).
My work is intended to be a meditation about the mysteries hidden in
in the mystical identity of Nature, in dreams, in memories and how
they can be represented in their evolution and mutation, becoming
the seed of a story to deliver to the beholders. Since always,
I’m deeply passionate about Illustration books, comics and fictional
narrative. I found my inspiration and reason to build my figurative
narrative language thanks to the work of those who walked the
path of the magic and fantastic realism, beyond the anthropocentrism.
Not only painters but writers, film-makers, authors of comics or
illustrated books such as Lovecraft, Giger, Henry Darger,
Antonio Ligabue, Joe Coleman, Katsuhiro Otomo, Junji Ito,
Mario Bava and the artists of the Wiener Schule van
Phantastische Realismus.