Daniele Mazzoleni, Milanese, 1970. He grew up in the Milan of the 80s and 90s, breathing the air of a city that he would remain with as he grew up a deep nostalgia. A child who in his free time runs to his grandfather's tire shop, to climb on tires with friends from the neighborhood, and who, between one football match and another in the street Lombardini, stop by Mr. Luigi's shop for a ham michetta. Who happens to meet friends when going up to his maternal grandfather's house in Ripa di Porta Ticinese of uncle Tony, Walter Chiari, Domenico Modugno, Julio Iglesias, Mogol, or that I on Christmas day give him Gianni Morandi a call for good wishes. In that lively atmosphere and at the same time full of concrete humility, his sensitivity grows innate towards all artistic expressions. Thanks to the afternoons spent with grandfather Orfelio, watching him enchanted as he painted his pink sunsets on the Navigli, he gets closer and closer to painting. Passionate about construction, he graduated from ITI Carlo Bazzi, and until 1999 attended the Faculty of Architecture of Milan. In 1999 he opened the Le Due Facce restaurant with his brother Fabio, and dedicated himself to it for a few years totally to the restaurateur activity. In 2004 he returned to his greatest love and set up a small laboratory. For about a year he experimented with the use of different materials, focusing his research on colors and on ancestral signs, on the symbols of the past that best help him interpret the present. The first artistic production, characterized by graphic virtuosity and bright colors of the enamels, evolves in the search for an ever greater exaltation of plasticity, with the use of resins two-component. In 2006 he created the Neroamericano brand and dedicated himself to the production of art design, creating collections of lamps, tables and paintings in mirror polished stainless steel, resins, aluminium. In those years Daniele Mazzoleni followed the path of self-production, that is, he attended in a way transversal art and craftsmanship. The project is carried out through experimentation, continuous testing, in mistakes, in renewed attempts until the final solution, Architecture, design and art meet in his creations, but the added value remains the work manual: each work is born from an artisanal process of which the author knows all perfectly phases. The idea, which transforms into a gesture, into a sign, is a continuous search, a continuous evolution of itself himself, a continuous and obstinate search for happiness. Even in this period he continued his purely artistic production, exploiting related techniques to the materials he experiments with Neroaiuto. The first oil paintings and the subsequent ones in resin, in which he addresses related themes, are from those years to current events: the hypocrisy of politics, respect for nature (especially human), the limitations of freedom, the need to reread historical and current events, the stubborn hunger for justice. Messages conveyed with ironic and irreverent language. His poetics takes shape, which leads him to prefer ideas to ideologies, great thoughts to thinkers, especially if contaminated by politics and human greed.

him Participates in various exhibitions between 2006 and 2011: 2005 “Lampi di Luce”, collective exhibition in Castel dell'Ovo, Naples, 2006 “Index” Dubai, 2007 “Luce al cubo”, solo show in Milan, 2007 “Pink Night”, solo show in Milan, 2008 “Light+Building”, fair in Frankfurt, 2008 “Red Night” personal exhibition in Milan, 2008 “Luce al Design” collective c/o Galleria Magenta, Vimercate, 2008 Collective “Torinover” at Palazzo Fuksas, Turin, 2008 Neroaiuto for Corvino Diamonds, Milan 2009 “Neroaux Room 102” Hotel Nhow, Milan, 2009 “Resin of Light” Winery Zenato in S.Benedetto di Lugana (VR), 2009 “Islands of Hospitality” curated by Ettore Mocchetti, Verona, 2009 “Abitare il Tempo” fair in Verona, 2010 “Temporary Museum of new Design” Superstudio - Milan, 2010 “Collective” Noneart Gallery, Peschiera del Garda (BS), 2010 “Operae” Turin, 2011 “Salon Dec’oh” Montecarlo, 2011 “Temporary Museum of new Design” Superstudio- Milan, 2011 “Personal” 133 Art Gallery, Desenzano (BS), 2011 “Abitami” Milan, 2011.

he Obtains several publications in sector magazines: September 2006_Family Mag_“The subtle charm of the cube”, June 2007_IQD_“Blacksteel”, July 2007_ MADE05_ “Luce al cubo by Neroaiuto”, July 2007_ BOX _“A creative from light”, September 2007_CASA RESART_”Pink”, April 2008_LICHT_”Light+Building”, April 2008_STYLE _“Volumes cubed”, July 2008_MADE05_“Crossing Reference_Crossing Materials”, July 2008_IQD_”Il Bagno Oltre”, September 2008_HOME AND GARDEN_“Hot lamp”, September 2008_OTTAGONO_“Lights that shape the home environment”, October 2008_ELLE DECOR_“Light at Design”, October 2008_IQD_“Torinover08”, November 2008_DLux_“Light to Design”, April 2009_Interni_Luce/Lighting, April 2009_Lighting Today_Threeface 30, July 2009_AD_ADDesign News, September 2009_Leonardo Tv_4 minute pill, December 2009_GdA International_“News”, October 2009_Case&Stili_“The Loft on the Navigli”, December 2009_IQD_I tulipani, January 2010_Habitat_Neroaux, February 2010_Case&Stili_“Formal plasticism”, April 2010_Habitat_Company&Product, April 2010_Leonardo tv_pill 4 minutes, May 2010_Casa 99 Ideas_“Illuminate with flowers, graphic decorations”, August 2010_lastampa.it_“The table becomes whimsical”, September 2010_Leonardo TV_4 minute pill, September 2010_Ideat_Seine D'interieur, September 2010_Archiportale_“The tables in aluminum and resin by neroamericano”, December 2010_Case&Stili_“Lighting: new canons”, December 2010_The Lifestyle Journal_Neroaux, February 2011_Leonardo-Case&Stili_“New Urban Design”, February 2011_Leonardo-Case&Stili_“Classe da Vendere”, April 2011_King Size Interiors_“News”, April 2011_King Size Interiors_“Home”, September 2011- Cose di Casa_“Arredare”

In 2013 he moved away from the experience of producing design objects and approached the world of design, carrying out building renovations with the aim of creating original living spaces and welcoming, studied in detail and characterized, especially in the furnishings, by his intervention creative. Recent years have brought him back to the search for new forms of expression, to reflect on the themes he presents always represent an urgency for him. He created the cycle of portraits presented in the exhibition “Tra la Perduta Gente” curated by Luca Cantore of Love, in which characters, personalities, words and stories intertwine to become vehicles of messages, dreams and reflections. “I collect files, I rearrange the drawers, I'll order, I need it. To die without confused thoughts and to have clear memories. (D.M.)