Dito Von Tease

Dito Von Tease is the pseudonym of a digital artist living in Bologna (Italy), who keeps hidden his real identity. He studied in the best Italian schools of fine arts communication and design before starting his double career as an art director in important advertising agencies and as an independent digital artist. In 2011 he has emerged at the international level with his project Ditology a gallery of finger-portraits of famous and common people suggesting a reflection on the topic of digital identities. In 2014 Dito makes a tribute to his Country and its best talents with Ditalians: a series of finger-portraits of Italians famous in the world. In 2015 he is back with a new project iDollz proposing his vision on the meaning of contemporary simulacra. In 2017 Dito returns with Melting Pop a digital project about mashups and portmanteau. In 2018 with Classicool, the subjects of the paintings abandon their classical pose by literally taking the canvas to "paint themselves”. In 2020 Dito come back with Cartoni Animali, showing how animals cartoon characters would look in real life. Since 2011 Dito’s work has been reviewed by radios TVs and internet published in worldwide newspapers magazines and books it has inspired advertising campaigns attracted collaborations with celebrities and entered in some art galleries’ catalogues in London, Paris and all around the world.