"I paint to go back home. Painting is my map made by sweat, wind, cold, sun, climbs and descents, it is the construction of the path.”

Angelo Bellobono was born in Rome, 1964. Through his work, Bellobono paints atmospheres and suspended stories that investigate the relationship between anthropology, geology, identity, border and territory and how all of it affects and redraws the natural and social landscape. He constantly experiences a sense of "corporeal" belonging to places traveled to, an experience necessary to read the sedimentations and memories of the landscape.

Having spent over two decades as a professional skier and sport coach, and then explorer, Bellobono has lived in various mountain ranges around the world. The elements of ice and mountains, especially the Mediterranean mountain ranges, are frequent elements in his work: ice representing the planet’s archival memory, and mountains depicted as hinges and not barriers, connecting different cultures rather than dividing them. He considers the Mediterranean sea as a “Mountain Lake”.

In addition to his pictorial research Bellobono has made several interdisciplinary projects in which art, sport and biosustainability become instruments of social connectivity and microeconomic development, as in the case of Atla(s)now with the Amazigh communities of the Moroccan High Atlas, or Before me and after my time involving the Ramapough Lenape, the Native American natives of New York and Io sono Futuro in the Appennine areas affected by the earthquake.

In the summer of 2018, as part of the project Linea Appennino 1201, he crossed all the Italian Apennine peaks from the south in Calabria, to the north in Liguria, to collect the soil of each peak then used for his paintings.

He won awards from Cultura and Arte by the Fondazione Roma in 2019, the Celeste Prize for Painting in 2005 and the Artslant Drawing award in 2009. He was a finalist in the Lissone Prize, the Combat Prize, and the Portali dello Scompiglio Prize. In 2010 he was invited to the Martedì critici and in 2015 to Tedx-Rome. Over the years he has been invited to various residences such as Bocs Cosenza, Landina Cars Omegna, Lac or Le Mon San Ceasario Foundation of Lecce.

His work is found in numerous public and private collections. A selection of paintings are available at AS | Artists Studios.