About The Artist

Giovanni Enrico Morassutti is an Italian actor, director, writer, artist and cultural entrepreneur. He studied Method acting at the Actors Studio in New York, graduated from the Centro Sperimentale dei CInematografia of Rome. Giovanni is a longtime collaborator of John Strasberg , son of Lee Strasberg. As a Neo- Expressionist and Abstract visual artist he combines action painting and collage techniques with found materials including Illustrations, portraits and textiles dealing with themes such as suffering, sexuality, obsession, family conditioning , loneliness and death. He is influenced by by the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Jackson Pollock. Giovanni Morassutti is the founder of Art Aia- Creatives/ In/ Residence which is an international art residency, located in Northern Italy and in Berlin he cofounded Art Aia - La Dolce Berlin, a project space and production company, that focus on the development of the creative process and facilitates cultural exchange across borders.