Just revealed a new mural in Rione Sanità, Naples, made by Jerico Cabrera Carandang, street artist born in Philippines and based in Rome. Jerico’s style is fascinating and steadly mutating, working on fragmented faces and shattered expressions, souls of a screaming existance. He started to investigate the nature painted as plants, using cold colours, allegoryContinue reading
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“Green Giant” by Blu in Naples, Italy
In 2016 Blu realises in the heart of Naples, the district of Martadei, a huge green human being occupying all the façade of the building. It’s a celebration of the re-opening of the edifice, before a former psychiatric prison and now converted into an open space community. Blu is always interested to the social issuesContinue reading
“Parthenope” by Francisco Bosoletti in Naples, Italy
Naples is deeply immersed into myths, folklore and tradition and also the street art interlaces with the legends of the city. It’s the case of the mural “Parthenope” realized by Argentinian street artist Francisco Bosoletti. He takes inspiration from the legend of Naples’s birth which talks about a siren getting to the Neapolitan coasts: theContinue reading
“Gennaro” by Jorit Agoch in Naples, Italy
Italian street artist known with the pseudonym of Agoch realises portraits of people reproduced with a very realistic style. The human face is the heart of his work, in its multiple expressions, leaving apart the cultural identity, as part of the same community. The background is Naples, the city where he started to paint, withContinue reading
“Gli Angeli” by Zilda in Vico Santa Maria dell’Aiuto, Naples
Walking in the Old Town of Naples is easy to see the works of French street artist Zilda. Affectionately called “The Banksy of Rennes”, his stencils are integrated unobtrusively within the Neapolitan alleys. His accomplishments are often an evocation of classic subjects: the myths, stories, allegories and iconography borrowed from mythology, Greek tragedy and fromContinue reading
“Poliziotto innamorato”by CLET in Naples, Italy
CLET is a French artist, active in Italy since the Nineties. His interesting work is organized within the city limits, interacting with them in an ironic and sometimes controversial way. His work focuses mainly on road signs. On the small surface of the main traffic signs he applies the stickers, transforming the initial message fromContinue reading