Born in 1980, artist Nicola Felice Torcoli was born and raised in Lumezzane, a small town in the Brescian hills where he nurtured his passion for painting. After high school, he moved to Milan to attend the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2005. While focused on painting, photography and installations often emerged in his artistic research, reflecting the impact of the modern shift between analog and digital media in his work. In 2010, he began experimenting and working with the Defrag technique, which he aptly named after the defragmentation of canvases.
Nicola Torcoli
The themes of his work often include perception, temporality, and how distance (both physical and metaphorical) from the artwork changes what one sees. For example, he has said that “depending on how far one looks at a canvas, one perceives various sensations and perceptions differently.”
His use of multiple canvases (sometimes assembling them), combining materials (canvas, fabrics, threads, glue) to build texture and layering is characteristic.