URBAN ART OASIS
Born in Padua in 1971, he began spray painting in 1989, though he had been interested in New York hip-hop culture since the early ’80s, fascinated by music videos and magazines showcasing graffiti art. In the ’90s, he joined the FCE in Bologna, later deciding to create the Padua-based EAD Crew (Esquela Antigua Disciples) with friends who shared his passion for this culture.
His style has undergone several evolutions (wild style, simple style, blockbuster, figurative, puppet, and character), experimenting with color in various ways—from flat fills to gradients intersected by decorative patterns with other colors—creating 3D effects or decorative graphic elements within the letters, ensuring they remain recognizable and central.
His study of real-world dimensions and space led him to try his hand at set design, working for major fashion brands and trendy venues in Italy and abroad. In 1998, he received a creativity award from Canon at Smau in Milan. In 2000, he created the stage sets for the Casino Royale concert tour. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the group show dedicated to street art culture, Urbanizeme Exhibition (Padua, 2011), whose historical section documented for the first time the systematic importance of Padua, alongside Bologna and Milan, in the Italian street and urban art scene.
Theme Changes
Color filters that transform lines into geometries.
Points of transparency and gradients recall Murano glass and the lights of the lagoon.
All these concepts added together generate an apparent visual chaos that hides the rigid rules of geometric construction, generating energy visible through the eyes and perceptible in the body.
And this “wall” of color, “which from so large a part of the far horizon excludes the view,” becomes a threshold toward an unknown and fascinating elsewhere, a sea of colors in which it is sweet to be shipwrecked.