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    “Cannot” by Biancoshock in Lodi, Italy

    Biancoshock recently worked on a new project in Lodi, Italy. Entitled “Cannot”, this installation is a part of the artist’s ‘Nice To Meet You’ Series.Biancoshock uses elements that are easily recognizable as belonging to Western pop culture. His works can be presented as performances in which he is the protagonist of interventions on the street and in which passers-by actively participate, but also as interventions carried out directly on elements of street furniture. Soft toys, puppets, games, famous brands, objects that make up the home furnishings and everyday life are decontextualized and thanks to this conceptual and linguistic operation become other, coming to convey a message to the user through irony and provocation.His artistic project began in 2004 after a previous ten-year experience in the Graffiti world. This background spontaneously led him to live the city as a stage for his artistic actions.From the beginning, the artist expresses himself mainly through independent urban installations, different from each other in terms of technique, materials and subjects, but united by the same intent: to offer a starting point for reflection – sometimes ironically, other times provocatively – to the passer-by, trying to emotionally disturb his daily routine.Check out below for more photos of “Cannot”. More

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    “Pasta, Panda, Beretta e Mandolino – Made in Italy” by Urka in Turin, Italy

    Street artist Urka just worked on his latest mural located at Parco Dora, Turin, Italy. The mural entitled “Pasta, Panda, Beretta e Mandolino – Made in Italy” was made in collaboration with artist MrFijodor.URKA is a talented, satirical sketch artist who enjoys also creating on city walls. Based in Italy, he is a shy guy, introverted, meteoropathic and misanthropic the most of the time.  The artist likes to draw silly and satiric puppets about human behaviors.Take a look below for more photos of his latest project. More

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    “G O A L – Struttura G070” by Giulio Vesprini in Castellano, Italy

    “The park is famous for its astronomical observatory and my work pays homage to this fantastic place with its surrounding landscape by observing the moon, the sea, the beautiful countryside and the Via Lactea…” Giulio Vesprini stated.Giulio Vesprini is an artist and graphic designer who works in a variety of media. He has attended two major schools: Accademy of Fine Arts in Macerata and the Departement of Architecture in Ascoli Piceno. With a subtle minimalistic approach, Vesprini focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where graphic and wall can be united at any given moment: the non-private space and space that is economically uninteresting can become utility space. His artworks are often about contact with architecture and graphic elements.By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. His practice provides some graphic tools with a minimalist approach in the world of art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. More

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    “Beyond Walls” by Saype in Venice, Italy

    Artist and innovator Saype presents his new creation, making Venice part of his Beyond Walls global human chain. The work, which is sailing through the Serenissima on the occasion of the Biennale Art, has been unveiled on April 21.Giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype from the Beyond Walls project on Friday April 15, 2022 on a floating barge in Venice, Italy. Extending over an area of 8 by 30 meters this fresco was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. The piece will travel in and around Venice and will be unveiled during the Biennale Arte 2022 59th International Art Exhibition. (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)An exhibition dedicated to Beyond Walls is held at Torre di Porta Nuova dell’Arsenale Nord. To open the exhibition, Karole Vail, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, and Francesca Lavazza, Board member of the Lavazza Group, will join Saype for a meeting entitled “Art and Sustainability”, a paradigm that perfectly sums up the ephemeral and striking nature of the artist’s work.  “Beyond Walls” is a monumental project launched by Saype based on a premise: the world is polarized, a part of the population has chosen to withdraw into itself. However, Saype underlines it:“I am deeply convinced that it is together that humanity will be able to respond to the different challenges it will have to overcome“.It is from this conviction that the desire was born to share a positive message of mutual aid and common effort throughout the world by symbolically creating the largest human chain ever made in the world.The project started in 2019 from Paris, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and travels the world from city to city with the ambition to cross the 5 continents and connect people from all over the world.Saype creates monumental frescoes on grass, earth, sand and snow. Inventor of an eco-responsible painting, he is recognized as the pioneer of an artistic movement that jointly honors street art and landart. His innovative approach and technique earned him a 2019 Forbes Magazine nomination as one of the thirty most influential people under thirty in art and culture. New York, Paris, Geneva, Cape Town, Turin, Dubaï, Nairobi, Istanbul, Ouagadougou, Miami, (…) his poetic and ephemeral works travel around the world to impact mentalities in respect of nature.Take a look below for more photos of the project. More

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    “Heavy Meal” Series by Biancoshock in Milan, Italy

    Biancoshock is back with a new series of artwork in Milan. The artist’s installations “Heavy Meal” are painted concrete backpacks that criticize the work of food delivery riders and their daily effort.“In a democratic society, job is a basic tool for civil and economic progress. What progress can there be if job’s world does not produce emancipation, growth and gratification? In example, the work of food-delivery riders is dictated by algorithms that extend the functions of control and distribution of numbers to become inaccessible, authoritarian and categorical.”“CO-BRANDING” in Milan, 2022“The algorithm imposes a path, rhythms, distances to be bridged (those between the rider and the consumer) and other unbridgeable ones (those between the rider and the management of the company that produces the algorithm and the goods to be delivered). The need to survive in this system transforms young people, students and the unemployed into ‘new generation slaves’.”“CO-BRANDING” in Milan, 2022 — Transforming the name of the 3 most famous food-delivery brands into a sentence that describes the principles of globalization. The concrete bags represent the daily effort we must make to endure the heavy consequences of the era of “I want everything and I want it now”“Every day they are forced to bear a constant burden caused by the lack of rights, by underpaid and irregular contracts, by the lack of comparison and relationship as well as the total absence of insurance assistance. And every day that backpack will weigh more and more, as if it were filled with concrete.”“JUST NEET” in Milan, 2022 — “Stop being a slave to laziness, just be a slave.”“JUST NEET” in Milan, 2022“SLAVEROO” in Milan, 2021 — “Old stone, new slavery.”“SLAVEROO” in Milan, 2021 More

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    “Liber Libellula” by Jair Martinez in Turin, Italy

    Street artist Jair Martinez recently worked on a new project entitled “Liber Libellula”in Settimo Torinese, Turin, Italy. The mural is part of the Insieme Si Può Fare Project, which involves young people and fights educational poverty.Nature and the sky are the canvas for this illustrated story in which big trees, as far as the eye can see, create a stage where nature takes the leading role and inspires us. A body of water reflects the space via light and dark colours that tell the story of our paths all the way until ideas make an appearance, Muses, flashes of light: our passions.Symbolic elements fluctuate before the Muses: the violin evokes music, the dance shoe makes us think of theatre and dance, a home – the place where our passions are born and grow. All of these are a clear call to the House of Music, the Song in itself.The ‘Liber Libellula’ graffiti tells a story of freedom, change, grace, balance, transformation, hope – all embodied by the totem insect: the dragonfly. A heraldic emblem of joy and happiness, of love, of hope and of transformation. It is born in the water, but it flies away finishing its own life up in the air. For the Japanese, the dragonfly is a recurrent symbol; for the ancient native Americans dragonflies represented the soul of their dead; for the Mayas they represented Ixchel, the nocturnal deity related to medicine, the lunar rainbow lady of creativity and rebirth.Check out below for more photos of the project. More

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    New Murals by Andrea Casciu in Bologna, Italy

    Street artist Andrea Casciu recently shared some fresh works on the walls of Bologna, Italy. These series of murals entitled “Piscis Volans” and “Camaleonte” (which translates to Flying Fish and Chameleon) features his signature style of bold, defined outlines and striking colors. Both of his works show a combination of faunas and flora merging into one body.Andrea Casciu was born in 1983. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari where he deepened his artistic research towards painting, sculpture and engraving.Casciu creates associations of images and fantastic worlds which dialogue with the silhouette of his face. Changeability and transformations are the basis of his image.In his work there is an obstinate self-analysis that pushes him daily and a continuous study of himself and everything surround him.Check out below for more photos of Andrea Casciu’ work. More

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    “Ampelo” by Vittorio Valiante in Guardia Sanframondi, Italy

    Urban artist Vittorio Valiante shares his recent piece in Guardia Sanframondi, Campania, Italy. The mural entitled “Ampelo”, the personification of the grapevine and lover of Dionysus in Greek and Roman mythology. He was a satyr which fate was turning into a Constellation or the grape vine.Valiante’s art always expresses itself with the same quality as of a painted canvas. His subjects are full of realism and beauty. His portraits are usually characterized with intense gazes that makes the viewer wonder – who of the two is actually observing and who is only seeing. More