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Federico Clapis (Milano, 4 aprile 1987) is an Italian artist, sculptor and actor.

Biography
In 2012 Federico Clapis broke through media web attention though the same-name YouTube channel where he released - by the pseudonym Doctor Clapis - songs as well as videoclips concerning ironically social community topics, generally considered to be taboo.

|Dai Cazzo Federico. In 2013, Clapis released his first documentary web series production about himself being in close contact with fierce animals, named National Geo Clapis. On 28 January 2014 his first music album Il Mio Bambino - In vendita a pochi euro published by Sony Music Entertainment, was released in every record shop and digital store. The album includes the studio versions of all his songs published on his YouTube channel with other unreleased tracks. In the same year, he released the online series ”Behind a Selfie” which deals ironically with events occurring in nowadays coupledom. The format - in which also Fabio Rovazzi appeared for the first time – became immediately a web cult event, getting more that 100 million views..

On 22 October 2015 the movie Game Therapy, in which for the first time on big screen Clapis played the protagonist together with Lorenzo Ostuni -namely Favij -, was released in 250 Italian cinema theatres. The film was nominated for David di Donatello del 2016 within the best digital effects category and collected 740.00 euro during its first weekend showing

Art
In December 2015 Clapis openly abandoned the entertainment business to fully commit to his contemporary artist career. In the same year his art exhibit Nati in cattività where his paintings are exposed. On 26 January 2016 he exposed one of his works along with ‘Lavori su Carta’ by Francis Bacon, during the exhibit presentation of the volume ‘Works on paper’ at the Palazzo Montanari in Bologna.

Movies

 * 2013 - Scusa ma ti abbandono, regia di Marco Barbouth
 * 2015 - Game Therapy, regia di Ryan Travis

Web Series

 * 2013 - NationalGeoClapis
 * 2014 - Behind a selfie

Studio Albums

 * 2014 - Il Mio Bambino - In vendita a pochi euro LP

2015

 * Premio Pitagora - Museo Pitagora di Crotone