Oreste Monaco (born 1992 in Catania) is art director and lived almost 10 years between Milan, Barcelona and Madrid. He graduated from the European Institute of Design in Advertising Communication with a major in Art Direction and subsequently worked for several Spanish advertising agencies. His passion for art led him to pursue a career as an art director. With the beginning of the pandemic he decided to return to his homeland, Sicily, after 10 years to devote more time to art. In 2013 he exhibited his photographic and video project „Hellenic Reflection“ in the exhibition Dialoghi Tridimensionali; in May 2022 he exhibited a preview of one of the works of Second Life, Rebirth within the Imagenation exhibition in Paris. On July 30, 2022 he inaugurated the photographic exhibition Second Life, Rinascita a Noto, at the Sala Gagliardi.