Working on topics like identity, environment, slavery and migration, Decertor chooses to show the political and social context in order to involve the passers-by and invite them to reflect. He uses the portrait as a medium to led the people identify with the painting, picking characters from the ordinary life obtaining, in this way, aContinue reading
Category: street art
“Simbiosi” by Edoardo Tresoldi for Parco Arte Sella in Trentino, Italy
In this blog we have already talked about Edoardo Tresoldi and his ethereal and majestic wire mesh architectures. In this post we want to present “Simbiosi”, site specific work unveiled last 15th September for Parco Arte Sella in Borgo Valsugana, Trentino, realised on top of the hill formed because of a storm. This artistic parkContinue reading
Gleo in Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Nathalia Gallego known as Gleo is a young muralist from Cali, Colombia. Her art is made by magical and mystical beings, gaining inspiration from ancestral culture. Starting to work at the age of 15, she was featuring a marine world composed of caricatural forms and imaginary fishes. Approaching the history of Latin American art, sheContinue reading
Mural by Miles in Florence, Italy
Italian street artist Simone Miletta known as Miles creates a world made by scanty figures that allow him to face with current events. Using a dark palette he captures an universe of characters that take the shape of animals and vice versa, recreating a connection with our primordial nature. Miles investigates the animal as aContinue reading
“Hunting Pollution” by Iena Cruz in Ostiense, Rome.
Murals often concern very current topics and in this case it attempts to do something, fighting against air pollution. It is “Hunting Pollution” made in Ostiense, an old industrial area and now turned into a bustling multiethnical neighbourhood, by Italian street artist Federico Massa, known as Iena Cruz. The artwork, that measures one thousand squareContinue reading
“The Mediterranean Tunnel” by MTO in Sapri, Italy
The case of the block of migrants aboard the “Diciotti” ship that involves Matteo Salvini, Minister of Internal Affairs , charged for kidnapping, represents the culmination of an ongoing tragedy that sees migrants in the Mediterranean as protagonist. The journey to Italy has proved increasingly dangerous and in recent months there has also been aContinue reading