Bio
Jacopo Ernesto Gasparrini (b. 1993, Rome) is a visual artist and designer based in Stockholm. His research focuses on the aesthetics of control, surveillance, seduction, and symbolic violence in the digital era. Combining 3D modeling, artificial intelligence, digital illustration, and lo-fi materials, his work explores the ambiguous space between attraction and discomfort, authorship and automation, image and trauma.
Gasparrini holds a BA in Design and Visual Communication from Politecnico di Torino and a degree in Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. His projects simulate and subvert the languages of advertising, gaming, and mass media, critically engaging with contemporary rituals of recognition and self-exposure.
A statement.
We live in an era where images no longer represent anything: they exist to multiply, to circulate, to infest. My work begins with this visual saturation, where every gesture, every object, every word is potentially a tool of control disguised as a reward. Surveillance has learned to smile, to applaud, to say “well done.”
I work with hybrid media — 3D printing, illustration, found materials, automation, artificial intelligence — to produce seductive and repulsive artifacts. My trophies are soft, faulty, often generated by non-humans. My images are unsettling yet familiar, organic yet simulated. The artwork becomes a device of toxic attraction: it makes you feel seen, wanted, complicit.
Through pop aesthetics contaminated by noise, parasitic forms, and corrupted advertising language, I stage the collapse of authorship and the crisis of originality. I am not interested in denouncing but in exaggerating — pushing the image toward implosion, letting it rot until it reveals its true nature: a harmless, pervasive virus.
There is no outside the system anymore, only the possibility of exploiting its own logic — automation, personalization, seduction — to simulate a rupture. My work doesn’t aim to explain, but to infect. After all, perhaps violence itself has become just another special effect.