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is an Italian traditional and digital artist born in a small town in northern Italy in 1947. In his youth he attended a technical high school in which he obtained the degree of chemical expert, then graduated in theoretical physics from the University of Milan, where he was also a researcher and professor for some time. After concluding his teaching career, he devoted himself mainly to his favorite studies in theoretical physics, to which he alternated artistic activity. He is at the same time a scientist and an artist, the two activities being inseparable and complementary for him. He has always painted, although he has never taken academic courses. From 1980 to the present, he has exhibited relatively little, and mainly in group shows, as he is much more interested in the act of research and experimentation than in exhibition. Nevertheless, his digital art over the past five years has been exhibited in cities such as NYC, Tokyo, Athens, Denver.

Siapou's is both rigorous and passionate research, in which an insider's reflection on the concept of relativity and quantum mechanics on the one hand, and an analysis of color as an entity, as a logical flow, as a storyline on the other, are included. He thus imagines painting on various glass plates that are then juxtaposed until they build a narrative unicum. Each of such imaginary plates is a temporal layer, a vibration of the narrative flow. The recomposition of the discourse in the final synthesis is left to the will not only of the artist, but also of the viewer. The different temporal layers, however, obey a precise logic, which consists of the perspective relationship, albeit changing in the continuous movement.

From a very early age, he had the opportunity to learn metalworking as his father worked as a blacksmith in the basement of his house for many years. Later, Siapou had the opportunity to work alongside a master carpenter through whose teaching he acquired various woodworking skills. To these earlier skills, he added glass workmanship, which he learned as an autodidact around the age of 40. By combining his knowledge of mathematics and theoretical physics with his manual dexterity, he gave life to a large number of pictosculptures/installations that he realised between the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.

is an Italian traditional and digital artist born in a small town in northern Italy in 1947. In his youth he attended a technical high school in which he obtained the degree of chemical expert, then graduated in theoretical physics from the University of Milan, where he was also a researcher and professor for some time. After concluding his teaching career, he devoted himself mainly to his favorite studies in theoretical physics, to which he alternated artistic activity. He is at the same time a scientist and an artist, the two activities being inseparable and complementary for him. He has always painted, although he has never taken academic courses. From 1980 to the present, he has exhibited relatively little, and mainly in group shows, as he is much more interested in the act of research and experimentation than in exhibition. Nevertheless, his digital art over the past five years has been exhibited in cities such as NYC, Tokyo, Athens, Denver. Siapou's is both rigorous and passionate research, in which an insider's reflection on the concept of relativity and quantum mechanics on the one hand, and an analysis of color as an entity, as a logical flow, as a storyline on the other, are included. He thus imagines painting on various glass plates that are then juxtaposed until they build a narrative unicum. Each of such imaginary plates is a temporal layer, a vibration of the narrative flow. The recomposition of the discourse in the final synthesis is left to the will not only of the artist, but also of the viewer. The different temporal layers, however, obey a precise logic, which consists of the perspective relationship, albeit changing in the continuous movement. From a very early age, he had the opportunity to learn metalworking as his father worked as a blacksmith in the basement of his house for many years. Later, Siapou had the opportunity to work alongside a master carpenter through whose teaching he acquired various woodworking skills. To these earlier skills, he added glass workmanship, which he learned as an autodidact around the age of 40. By combining his knowledge of mathematics and theoretical physics with his manual dexterity, he gave life to a large number of pictosculptures/installations that he realised between the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.