My name is Pietro Santovetti and I was born in Rome on 14/09/95. I attended the Caravillani art high school, where I obtained my high school diploma. I then began my studies at Rufa, specialising in Graphic Design, graduating in 2019 with a Graphic Novel project entitled “Mr. Sapiens”. I subsequently enrolled in the Master’s Degree programme in Visual and Innovation Design, graduating in 2021 with an animated short film entitled “A Dark World”. I am passionate about illustration, cinema and art, which provide me with creative inspiration for my work. Professionally, I always try to be precise, creative and above all curious, allowing the project itself to guide me towards new and possible solutions.
Mr. Sapiens, storia di una story
The graphic novel is a narrative genre in its own right, born as a form of popular communication. Here its main rhetorical structures are reconstructed and a narrative project is proposed: the protagonist of the story is Charles, whose name was deliberately chosen to evoke the philosopher of evolutionary theory. Charles is a chimpanzee with remarkable communication skills who lives in a zoo and, through a series of unexpected events, is catapulted into the human world.
The fact that he is a primate, the closest relative to our species, equipped with an opposable thumb and reactive intelligence, is intended to highlight the downward trajectory we are experiencing.
