Graffito

February 2024, “The evolution of a fish”.
This mural was realized in Ostia (the sea of Rome) on the walls of a high school.
The story depicted is a possible evolutionary path of an imaginary fish. From the dawn of life to its final shapes on the right wall, the fish in the black shapes, develops in to mammals on the left wall. There the fish faces the human impact, inspired and disguised as two masterpieces as M.C. Esher’s puddle xylography and the Goldfishes by Matisse. From fishes, Evolution went in many different directions, some mammals even came back to the sea developing in to cetaceans. May be there is something to learn from it for our (human) next choices.

This project was splendidly curated by Mr. Mirko Pierri of a.DNA project.
Thanks to Paolo for some of the photos and Simone for the amazing video.  

Rebibbia is a neighborhood of Rome, things are always done a little different there …
much love to Comitato Mammut

Marzabotto in the valley of Reno is unfortunately famous for the massacre of Monte Sole, a World War II war crime consisting in a mass murder of civilians by the Nazi-Fascists.
In reprisal for attacks on German soldiers by partisans and the Resistance between 29 September and 5 October 1944 a Waffen SS division was ordered to systematically kill hundreds of people in Marzabotto. They also killed numerous residents of the adjacent Grizzana Morandi and Monzuno, in the area of the massif of Monte Sole.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in the modern day’s history of Italy.
Since 2018 there is a mural-festival in Marzabotto, PENNELLI RIBELLI born to create a discussion about this terrible events.
I’ve got invited to paint there in July 2023.
Thanks to ALL the organizers!!

June 2023, Garfagnana and its amazing landscapes was the set for two murals in two different villages, Riana and Castglione. Organized by StArt open your eyes
Thanks to my special assistant Jessi and grazie to the awesome Giorgia Madiai  and Fabrizio DaPrato.

September 2022 the Fondazione Molinari onlus invited me to paint a wall in the city center of Civitavecchia. The city is one of the most important port of Italy, for this wall I played with the idea of sea and its connection with the rest of all environments. The title of the wall is: Un giorno dell’onda\ A day of the wave
Grazie Silvia for your perseverance and great attitude.
Some of the photos are by the magic Emanuele Ercolani, the videos are realized by Roberto Giannesi

In may 2022 “The Image Hunter” exhibition after three years touring around the States had its last venue at the COSTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM in Hilton Head island in South Carolina.  

With the occasion I got invited for a site specific intervention and painted some of the facilities of the museum, clearly spending time exploring the area and its many natural wonders.  

I really have to thank the staff of the museum for their outstanding hospitality and great vision, in particular Elizabeth Greenberg, chief curator of the exhibition and the director Rex Garniewicz.

Since 1983 in the summer, the city of Perigueux (FR) hosts the mime-festival: MIMOS, the theatre company SPINA was invited there to perform it’s paly Mio. This play tells the story of a painting bear that will be helped by a group of kids to escape from a ranger and will show them how painting on walls can became magic. SPINA company invited me to be the painting bear. While there I painted a bear dream on the walls of a retirement-house where part of the show was played.

Simply Collettivo Mammut in Rebibbia Roma in June 2020.

Spring 2021, after a really strange year, out again painting in Somaglia (LO) in a really ambitious project named Parklife all set in to a logistic park, alongside many other great artists organized by master HEMO