SoftwareBoy: The Space of Absolute Research

The first track is called SoftwareBoy. It is his space of absolute research, the "public diary" of his artistic growth. Here, Niccolò explores without limits: he brings satirical figurines like The Pigs to life, develops generative visual languages like SoftwareMoko, and creates characters like X-Boy. It is the playground where every technique, from digital to sculpture, is a toy to be taken apart and reassembled. It is the identity he dreams of bringing to an international level, into galleries, to establish recognition for both the artist and the brand.

Software Studio: The High-Tech Artisanal Workshop

The second track is called Software Studio. This is not a side note, nor a simple job to pay the bills. It is the high-tech artisanal workshop. It is the enterprise that produces physical objects on commission for global brands, mastering 3D modeling, prototyping, and production coordination. While SoftwareBoy explores art, Software Studio masters the craft of making it real, concretely, in the physical world.

The Virtuous Cycle

The genius of the system lies precisely here: the two tracks are not separate, but fuel each other. It is a perpetual virtuous cycle.

• Software Studio finances and stabilizes SoftwareBoy, ensuring that artistic research can continue without the risk of having to bend to market demands.

• Software Studio is the training ground where Niccolò and his team hone advanced technical skills (production, logistics, problem-solving) that later become invaluable for realizing even the most ambitious SoftwareBoy projects.

• SoftwareBoy, in turn, brings vision, experimentation, and a unique aesthetic into Software Studio, raising the bar for project quality.

The Vision for Symbiosis

The vision for the next five years is not to "discard" one for the other, but to empower both in symbiosis. For Software Studio, this means growing, automating the most mechanical processes, expanding the team, and becoming a solid, connected 360° production and design studio. For SoftwareBoy, it means having, thanks to that solid "track," the freedom and resources to be more active, recognized on a global level.

How the mind of an artist works when he refuses to put "forbidden" signs on his own imagination.

If you try to ask Niccolò what "style" he works in, he'll probably make a face. Because the question itself contains a limit that his method categorically rejects. He is not a stylist, not a digital artist, not a sculptor. He is all these things together, depending on where his curiosity takes him.

His approach is not chaotic. It is permissive.

It is an operational philosophy that could be summarized like this: "No subject is off-limits. No medium is superior to another. Everything can enter the field of creative play, as long as it serves to express an idea, a feeling, a stance."

This permissiveness is his most powerful weapon against two enemies: repetition and preconceived judgment.

• Against repetition: Boredom is his main engine. When a project is finished, the question is not "how can I do this better?", but "what have I never done?". This is what pushes him from resin sculpture to automotive 3D modeling, from an NFT to an artisanal hoodie. Every new technique is a vocabulary to learn, and the more vocabularies you know, the more nuanced your sentences can be.

• Against preconceived judgment: This is where permissiveness becomes courage. Take The Pigs: seemingly innocent piglets that speak of corruption and abuse. A serious theme, treated with the aesthetic of a toy. Why? Because dark humor and permissive provocation are tools to force a new perspective. They dismantle the sacred gravity of certain topics, bring them closer, make them observable from an unexpected angle. It's a way of saying: "We can talk about it like this too. Perhaps, by talking about it like this, we understand it in a different way."

This method is reflected in a body of work that, at first glance, may seem scattered. What links a satirical statue, a generative design language, and a 3D character? Not a uniform aesthetic. What links them is the application of the same permissive rule: the freedom to use any tool (irony, geometry, character design) to explore any territory (the social, the energetic, the narrative), putting everything on the same plane of value.

The result is not a portfolio ordered by category. It is a constantly expanding map of the possible paths of his creativity. Chaos? Far from it. It is a very precise system: a system whose only law is the prohibition of imposing prohibitions. It is how an artist stays alive, curious, and, above all, authentically himself in a world that strongly pushes towards specialization and niche.

In such a vast and permissive creative universe, two questions arise spontaneously: what guides him, and where does he want to go? The answer lies in a visual and symbolic heritage that Niccolò has never abandoned.

While exploring new worlds, Niccolò remains faithful to symbols born in his adolescence: the Celestial logo with its distinctive dots and the X-Boy character. They are not brands, but root signs, affective glyphs that continue to re-emerge as easter eggs within his projects. This fidelity is not nostalgia, but identity coherence: a red thread that ties even the most distant experiments back to an original, unchanging language.

These symbols function as a compass. They allow his research to move freely without losing its orientation. Everything can evolve techniques, forms, contexts, but the way of thinking and building imaginaries remains recognizable.