Michele Cavaliere

Artist

Michele Cavaliere is an Italian Art director with a degree in International Political Science in 1992 at the University of Padua (Italy).
Before that, he starts his creative career in Italy in 1984 as satirical illustrator for Italian newspapers, magazines and national TV, editorial projects and advertising.

In 1994 he works in Treviso as a former Art Director at Fabrica (research and experimentation institute on communication, sponsored by Benetton and directed by Oliviero Toscani).

In the following years he experiences and developes his creative skills as a Director in Milan in many editorial projects and commercial advertising. In order to respond to his growing need to combine fantasy with real needs, and to use his own visions in order to help people, Michele involves his creativity in social projects such as “Pare a Sida com Amor” (Mozambique, 2006: Aids campaign supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), that consists in an animated cartoon and a six pages cartoon, presented and distributed during the “Cooperazione Italiana” itinerant project “Cinemarena” that took place all around Mozambique (projections and shows in open spaces both in cities and forests) in order to aware the local population about the real dangers of Aids, a disease that is too much spread throughout the Country.

A few years later, Michele works for another important social project that combines creativity, awareness and the reactivity of the local population: “Vittimine” (Kabul, 2011). This workshop for Afghan children, about the actual menace of landmines, is supported by the UN and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this project, Cavaliere directs a Street Art workshop for the schools of the Kabul province (children corresponds to 75% of the victims of those terrible weapons). Thanks to “Vittimine”, Michele succeeds in transforming potential casualties into messengers of alertness and information.

Michele Cavaliere is the pioneer of “Bookpages”, that consists in a new illustration format, that was shown in several individual shows in Contemporary Art galleries in Milan and Treviso. On 2007 he presented his “Bookpages” book at the Triennale Museum in Milan, performing there a big live illustration. Cavaliere is recently teaching his creative approach and illustration technique, directing Bookpages workshops in primary schools, high schools and Academies.

On 2017 Michele founded “Mikiberlin”, an up-cycling handmade production of furniture and interior design, by which he transforms materials and objects, giving to them a new meaning and identity. He says that “Everything, humans included, needs a new perspective and renewable action strategies”.

After these significant experiences, Michele continues until present day to work in communication, with the main interest to develop creative projects relating to social issues and awareness.