Any / Street Artist

Any is an artist who has only recently entered the street art scene. His name implies a sudden love for the Big Apple that permeates all his works, but also the desire to be “anyone,” blending into the New York crowd. His faces are symbols of the great city. His goal is to share that passion.
A graduate of the Pietro Selvatico Art Institute, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. He began painting during school, participating in several exhibitions including Bevilacqua La Masa in both Padua and Venice and, more recently, the Super Walls Street Art Biennial. His debut technique was watercolor, before moving on to oil painting while attending the studios of Busan and Galuppo. Later, he transitioned to acrylic, progressively eliminating the materiality of color until reaching pure charcoal. During his years at the Academy, he studied with Ken Damy and Ernesto Francalanci, through whom he fell in love with photography, later becoming a professional photographer.
Recently, thanks in part to frequent trips to New York, he has returned to painting, picking up where he left off—with charcoal technique enriched this time by incursions of color. It was while wandering through Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood that has become an open-air art gallery for street artists, that he was fascinated by the works of the greats, particularly Kobra. This led to the decision to “street-artize” his works using the stencil technique.

Many of his works take inspiration from his own photos. Wide gazes that embrace a city and its symbols before being caught by a detail and suddenly focusing on people and their lives, told through a moment, an emotion. But it is in fleeting and personal reflections that his gaze opens wide again, giving back a broader vision that now rests on the social and civil themes that make New York the glittering mirror of the civilized world.