Niro Perrone

Niro Perrone began his creative journey in electronic music before turning to drawing, using inspiration from his personal life and daily news to tell stories with surreal undertones. His work has been featured by The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Ozzy Osbourne, La Rappresentante di Lista, and various independent music projects, spanning album covers, illustrations, and posters. He has exhibited at festivals and galleries across Italy, Europe, and the United States.

Augmented Irreality is a snapshot of the present: colorful, grotesque, ironic, and desperate. It’s an animation that offers no solutions, but instead reveals the absurdity of escapism as everything around us collapses.

A silent fable where characters laugh while the ground gives way beneath them. A visual call to refocus our attention—before everything else fades. In a world where everything vibrates, flashes, and demands to be seen, humanity retreats into overstimulation to avoid facing disaster.
A fragment of surreal reality, a toxic sugar island where hands endlessly scroll, faces smile on command, and the ground beneath melts away. Our planet becomes a secondary backdrop—a trembling mush—as we lose ourselves in screens and avatars.