Tao Ruspoli Art

'Arc de Triomf' (Barcelona) Edition 1/10, 30x20cm, 2012, digital C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted...

'Salton Sea' (Bombay Beach), Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2016, Digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Published in...

Stefan the Cat and Susanna the Human - 2015 Edition of 10, 30x20cm, Digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate....

'Back in the Desert' Edition 1/10, 20x20cm, 2018, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, No OBAs, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 ...

Leila and Danny (Bombay Beach) Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2015 digital C-Print, Signature label and Certificate. Not Mounted Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American f...

'The Pilgrimage to the Black Rock' (Burning Man) Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2016, Color-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician. Background He is the second son of occasional actor and aristocrat Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri by Austrian-American actress Debra Berger. Tao was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Career Moviemaker magazine singled out Ruspoli as one of the 10 Young Filmmakers To Watch in its spring 2008 issue. His feature narrative debut, Fix, was one of 10 feature films to screen in competition at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival and soon afterward at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where Ruspoli was awarded the Heineken Red Star Award for 'most innovative and progressive filmmaker.' Fix also won the Festival Award for Best Film at the 2008 Brooklyn Film Festival, Vail Film Festival and the 2008 Twin Rivers Media Festival, as well as other prizes at several international festivals. His most well-known documentary is Just Say Know, a personal discussion of his family's drug addiction. His other films include Flamenco: A Personal Journey, a feature length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Gypsies in the south of Spain. He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about Flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan (a portrait of the renowned logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan). Tao founded LAFCO in 2000. The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, is a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO, Tao has produced several films and helped dozens of filmmakers to make their first films and discover the wonders of digital media. His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers, which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the best editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Tao is an accomplished flamenco guitar player, and his first CD, FLAMENCO, was released on Mapleshade Records in 2005. He married actress Olivia Wilde in 2003. They divorced in 2011. He currently lives and works in the High Desert, California. He is the co-founder of the Bombay Beach Biennale. The Exaltation of Imagination Photographs and Musings in Defense of Burning Man by Tao Ruspoli The press around Burning Man had gotten so bad that I almost felt embarrassed to be going this year. Even Daniel Pinchbeck, famed psychonaut and burner par excellence, had written a thoughtful piece explaining why, after 15 consecutive years, he wasn’t going back this year: the festival had changed too much-the rich had taken over, it had gone from a relevant and fascinating social experiment to epitomizing the worst elements of capitalist excess. Besides, he seemed to be saying, the world is going through too many crises, both ecological and humanitarian, to justify the extravagance of an event like this. Keith Spencer...

'Faith' 2015 digital C-Print, Edition 1/10, 20x30cm Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photogra...

'Praxedes', Edition 1/10, 30x20cm, 2018, C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November ...

'Elissa' (Bombay Beach) Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2017, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 Novemb...

'Alexander and Roehm' (Tulum) Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2011, Archival Pigment Print on Velvet Watercolor Paper, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Tao Ruspoli directed Alex Ebert's music video "Truth". The song was later used to great effect in a season finale of Breaking Bad...

Tracy (Bombay Beach), Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2017, digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (...

Roisin Davis (Thailand), Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2012, digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao...

'Emily' Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2016, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an I...

'Bombay Beach' Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2016 printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975...

'Moonshadow' Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2018, Archival Pigment Print on Velvet Watercolor Paper, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Publish...

Boating II, Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2018, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an It...

Janelle Monea, 2009, Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2015, digital C-Print, Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspoli's Monography 'Midway on our Life's Journey’, 2018 Abo...

'Haiti' Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2010 printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. We went to Haiti in 2010, and just a few days a...

'This Slap' (Movie Stills) Edition of 10, 20x30cm, 2008, Archival Print. Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspoli's Monography 'Midway...

'Salton Sea', Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2016, Color Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 Nov...