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Giovanni Motta
Giovanni Motta
Giovanni Motta is a painter and digital artist, a Neo-Pop Surrealist who blends elements of surrealism with a contemporary pop aesthetic. Through his cartoon-style alter ego, JonnyBoy, he explores themes related to the inner child.
His artistic research focuses on investigating primal emotions, using JonnyBoy to represent these feelings. Giovanni Motta’s works aim to create a dialogue with the viewer, inviting them to rediscover their inner self and confront emotions often forgotten. A central element of his artistic practice is regressive meditation, which he uses to travel into the past in search of transitional objects, settings, and colors to incorporate into his works.
Combining hyperrealistic painting with digital art, Giovanni Motta creates dreamlike worlds that reflect this complex interplay between memory and symbolism. His works have been exhibited in various galleries and museums, including the K11 Museum (Shanghai), Museo della Permanente (Milan), La Triennale (Milan), W1 Curates (London), Mart Museum (Trento), CAFA Museum (Beijing), Palazzo Giustinian (Venice), and the Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art (Cortina d’Ampezzo).
His artistic research focuses on investigating primal emotions, using JonnyBoy to represent these feelings. Giovanni Motta’s works aim to create a dialogue with the viewer, inviting them to rediscover their inner self and confront emotions often forgotten. A central element of his artistic practice is regressive meditation, which he uses to travel into the past in search of transitional objects, settings, and colors to incorporate into his works.
Combining hyperrealistic painting with digital art, Giovanni Motta creates dreamlike worlds that reflect this complex interplay between memory and symbolism. His works have been exhibited in various galleries and museums, including the K11 Museum (Shanghai), Museo della Permanente (Milan), La Triennale (Milan), W1 Curates (London), Mart Museum (Trento), CAFA Museum (Beijing), Palazzo Giustinian (Venice), and the Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art (Cortina d’Ampezzo).
GIOVANNI MOTTA
TODAY, 2025, video animation realized with Cinema 4D
TODAY, 2025, video animation realized with Cinema 4D
TODAY is not a story about the future, but a silent denunciation of our present. It is the day we stop recognizing the soul within things.
It is today that we destroy what is most fragile and human within us: the memory of love, forgotten tenderness, the value of things that are no longer useful. Amid piles of ruins lies JonnyBoy, a half-broken android child, discarded like waste, his circuits exposed, wires hanging like technological entrails.
What keeps him alive is not electricity, but a fragment of memory projected on a tiny screen: the kiss given by a little girl that made JonnyBoy a living being, no longer just an object. And within that kiss lies the entire difference between living and merely being lived.
It is today that we destroy what is most fragile and human within us: the memory of love, forgotten tenderness, the value of things that are no longer useful. Amid piles of ruins lies JonnyBoy, a half-broken android child, discarded like waste, his circuits exposed, wires hanging like technological entrails.
What keeps him alive is not electricity, but a fragment of memory projected on a tiny screen: the kiss given by a little girl that made JonnyBoy a living being, no longer just an object. And within that kiss lies the entire difference between living and merely being lived.