Zonk Volta

Zonk Volta scanned in 2008

Musician, writer and photographer, Zonk Volta (Milan, 1981) is in the “artistic world” since when he was sixteen.

Well known in Italy as one of the promising stage photo artist and stage photography theorical, after the language college (A. Manzoni, 1995-2000) he confered a degree on Communicationin 2004 at IULM University and a specialistic one on Fine art, Music and Drama in 2009 at Università degli Studi di Milano, both with experimental thesis on photography. He is now attending the faculty of Langueages and Foreign Literatures in Milan.

His style is aggressive, dirty and detailed. His style’s evolution brought him from a classic to a distorted, critic and visionary view of reality. He keeps on experiment new subjects and new techniques looking for an original and “never seen before” result.

Zonk Volta can be considered a 360 degrees artist, who moves from illustration to film making, from digital imaging to painting passing through web-design, novel, stories and music production (Seaside ’84, The Novel). He’s inspired and deeply influenced from dark, punk, german expressionism and surrealism with a particular attention to abstract and electronic arts.

In year 2011 he inaugurated a studio named “California Studio”, situated in the heart of Milan. He shares the space with artists like BrainSocket Studio, Gingetti Label, DDM and Enzo Calibè.

In the last three years he started following three literary/journalistic projects: MAGMUSIC! is an online music magazine, Pornosbronze a collection of  ”surreal stories” and Il Fotografo di scena, a blog about the stage photography techniques. Currently he writes about photography also on ArtWake, an online magazine focused on contemporary art.

On his personal blog Volta publishes his works and an important part of his theories.

Zonk Volta was born and lives in Milan, north Italy. During the last years he collaborated with important magazines and adv companies, concentrating himself on stage photography research. His work has been featured on important magazines and websites as BBC Uk, Repubblica, IlGiornale, Yahoo.com,  and his stage-shots have been appreciated by national and international bands. Since 2009, Zonk Volta is experiencing the teaching career, focusing on visual art, computer art and advertising subjects.