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The exhibitions I have joined as a guest artist, between pixel art and augmented reality.

Besides the video games I design for brands and TV channels, there is a more artistic side to my work: I am invited as an artist to take part in exhibitions, where pixel art leaves the screen and becomes a piece to look at, play and bring to life with your phone in augmented reality. Here are the exhibitions I have joined as a guest artist, most recent first.

Exhibitions at a glance:

  • 2026 – Dante Plus 2026, Ravenna: Dante Inferno and the video game in the window
  • 2025 – Press Start, Boing cartoons, Game Vintage Market, Rome
  • 2024 – Paediatric ward, Santa Maria delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna
  • 2021 – Dante Plus 700, Ravenna: Super Dante World (on show every year)
  • 2019 – Chicken Brooklyn, ChickenBroccoli’s Cinema Art Show, New York
  • 2018 – Cartoon Network Pop Up Town, Milan
  • 2017 – Characters, Illustri Festival, Vicenza
  • 2017 – Pixel Meet Market, Barcelona

Dante Inferno – Dante Plus 2026, Ravenna

For Dante Plus 2026, the 11th edition of the group show created by Marco Miccoli (Bonobolabo) in Ravenna, from 30 May to 20 September 2026, I drew Dante Inferno: Dante’s Hell told as an 80s video game, chosen as the cover of the catalogue. The exhibition’s outdoor window, in the Dante Zone, also hosted the Dante Inferno video game, developed with Dinobros: visitors scanned the QR code and played from their phones on the big screen in the window (see the live games). As every year since 2021, Super Dante World was on show too.

Visitors in front of the window with the Dante Inferno video game at Dante Plus 2026, Ravenna
The window with the video game, in the Dante Zone
People playing Dante Inferno in front of the Dante Plus 2026 window
Everyone plays together from their phones
The Dante Inferno pixel art window at Dante Plus 2026, Ravenna
Playing Dante Inferno with the phone as controller
The phone becomes the controller
Dante Inferno played in the evening in front of the window
The Dante Inferno poster in the Dante Plus 2026 garden
The poster in the exhibition garden

Press Start – Boing cartoons, Game Vintage Market, Rome

On 13 and 14 September 2025, at the Game Vintage Market hosted by Fusolab (Casilino Sky Park) in Rome, I presented Press Start – I cartoni di Boing, a visual experience in pixel art and augmented reality. Pixel art covers of Boing’s cartoons lined a corridor: with the free app ARIA – The AR Platform, framing them with a phone brought each piece to life with animations and original music by Jeff Sisti. A Bonobolabo project. For the same event I also drew the Game Vintage Market 2025 animated poster.

Poster of Press Start – Boing cartoons at Game Vintage Market 2025
The event poster
Press Start pixel art works on show at Fusolab, Rome
The corridor of the Press Start exhibition
Pixel art covers of Boing cartoons to animate in augmented reality

Paediatric ward, Santa Maria delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna

The same works were created for the paediatric ward of Santa Maria delle Croci Hospital in Ravenna, as part of Marco Miccoli’s Bonobolabo project to make the ward a friendlier place for children. In July 2024 the second part of the installation opened: 12 pixel art panels in corridors and rooms, with covers of Boing cartoons that come alive in augmented reality with the ARIA app, set to music by Jeff Sisti. Italian newspaper il Resto del Carlino covered the opening.

A pixel art panel animated in augmented reality in Ravenna paediatric ward
Photo: Ravenna local press
The_Oluk and his daughters framing the We Baby Bears panel in augmented reality
With my daughters, framing We Baby Bears – Photo: Ravenna local press
The Clarence panel in augmented reality in Ravenna paediatric ward
Photo: Ravenna local press
Opening of the pixel art installation in Ravenna paediatric ward, July 2024
The opening, July 2024 – Photo: Ravenna local press

Super Dante World – Dante Plus 700, Ravenna, 2021

My first Dante Plus: for Dante Plus 700, the Ravenna exhibition marking 700 years since Dante’s death, I made Super Dante World, Dante’s world told as an 80s platform game, with music by Jeff Sisti. It has been on show every year since.

Super Dante World on show under the portico at Dante Plus 700, Ravenna
The cloister of the Dante Plus 700 exhibition with Super Dante World
Super Dante World at Dante Plus 700, Ravenna, 2021

Chicken Brooklyn – Cinema Art Show, New York, 2019

For the 10th anniversary of ChickenBroccoli, the film criticism and illustration website founded by Sebastiano Barcaroli, Chicken Brooklyn – Cinema Art Show opened in New York in November 2019: more than sixty Italian illustrators paid tribute to cult films with one poster each, shown for two months at Sena Tattoo Art Gallery in SoHo (opening on Friday 8 November 2019). One of the posters on show was mine: a pixel art tribute to Lost, the TV series about the mysterious island. It was not my first work with ChickenBroccoli: in January 2018 I drew the pixel art cover for an episode of Le Precensioni, their show about films (source on the exhibition: Sebastiano Barcaroli).

Cartoon Network Pop Up Town – Milan, 2018

For Cartoon Network Italy’s 20th anniversary, from 1 to 17 June 2018, Cartoon Network Pop Up Town opened in Piazza Gae Aulenti, Milan: the channel’s first temporary store in Europe. I was invited as a pixel artist alongside street artists Mr.Wany, Pao, Laurina Paperina, Mr.Klevra and omino71: I created the pixel art artwork inspired by Cartoon Network shows, turned into pieces sold in the temporary store, with all proceeds going to Save the Children. On 11 June I held a public pixel art masterclass (source: Licensing Italia).

Characters – Illustri Festival, Vicenza, 2017

In 2017 I was among the artists selected for Illustri Festival, the illustration festival in Vicenza: my pixel art was on show in the Characters exhibition at Galleria QuBi, Corso Fogazzaro, from 27 May to 25 June 2017 (source: Illustri Festival).

Pixel Meet Market – Barcelona, 2017

On 30 June 2017 I exhibited at Pixel Meet Market, billed as Barcelona’s first pixel art exhibition, at the Ironhack space in Poblenou. It was organised by RetrogamingBCN and GameBCN, with artists from across Europe and Korea, including Edo Faravelli, with whom I now make many animations (source: Retromaniacs).

Exhibitions FAQ

Which exhibitions has The_Oluk taken part in?

The_Oluk (Manolo Saviantoni), a pixel artist based in Rome, has exhibited at Dante Plus in Ravenna (since 2021 with Super Dante World and in 2026 with Dante Inferno), at Press Start at Game Vintage Market in Rome (2025), in the augmented reality installation at Ravenna paediatric ward (2024), at ChickenBroccoli’s Chicken Brooklyn exhibition in New York (2019), at Cartoon Network Pop Up Town in Milan (2018), in the Characters exhibition at Illustri Festival in Vicenza (2017) and at Pixel Meet Market in Barcelona (2017).

Has The_Oluk exhibited abroad?

Yes: in 2019 his pixel art poster dedicated to Lost was shown in New York, at Sena Tattoo Art Gallery in SoHo, in ChickenBroccoli’s Chicken Brooklyn exhibition with more than sixty Italian illustrators; in 2017 he took part in Pixel Meet Market in Barcelona.

Does The_Oluk only make video games?

No: besides video games for brands and TV channels, he takes part in exhibitions as an artist, with pixel art pieces, animated posters and augmented reality installations.

Can The_Oluk be invited to an exhibition or event?

Yes: for exhibitions, festivals, events and installations, get in touch through the contact page.

An exhibition or event with pixel art?

Animated posters, augmented reality pieces and live games to play together: see the services or write to me.