🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022

Andrea Buglisi

<div>Un paesaggio sotto marino fantastico, una Atlantide in salsa sicula reinventata attraverso il mio linguaggio artistico personale. Il mare, linfa vitale di questo territorio, da dove non si vede. Troviamo un banco di pesci azzurri, (sardine tipiche del territorio), figure umane, (residenti e turisti), coralli e piante marine di diverse forme e colori e persino un dirigibile. Ogni cosa sembra convivere in maniera pacifica e serena con le altre.<br>Le cromie nei toni pastello, sono tenui e calibrate con il contesto del quartiere di case popolari dello Spinito. Alcuni elementi sembrano passare lentamente da una parete all’altra creando una composizione dinamica. Una sola sardina che fa da “chaise long” ad un giovane vestito con abiti contemporanei, viaggia nella direzione opposta. Essa rappresenta l’arte e la capacità che ha di tracciare nuovi territori linguistici, ma allude anche ad una amministrazione lungimirante che prima di molte altre, si è impegnata concretamente nell’affrontare temi legati all’eco sostenibilità ambientale.&nbsp;<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>A fantastic underwater landscape, an Atlantis in Sicilian sauce reinvented through my personal artistic language. The sea, the lifeblood of this territory, from where it cannot be seen. We find a shoal of blue fish (typical sardines of the area), human figures (residents and tourists), corals and marine plants of different shapes and colors and even an airship. Everything seems to coexist peacefully and serenely with the others. The colors in the pastel tones are soft and calibrated with the context of the Spinito social housing district. Some elements seem to move slowly from one wall to another creating a dynamic composition. A single sardine that acts as a "chaise long" for a young man dressed in contemporary clothes travels in the opposite direction. It represents the art and the ability it has to trace new linguistic territories, but it also alludes to a far sighted administration which, before many others, was concretely committed to addressing issues related to eco-environmental sustainability.</div>

Controcorrente

<div>In rethinking a piece of this neighborhood,<br>I painted a fantastic river landscape where a Kingfisher stands in the center. Then herons, eels, frogs, water lilies and other examples of the flora and fauna that form the ecosystem of the Oreto river which is located a few meters below the place where the murals stand. The river, even if denied to the use of citizens, represents a very important natural resource for Palermo, the intent of this work is to at least create a visual link between it and the nearest neighborhood.<br>The intervention, which covers an area of ​​500 square meters, incorporating a bus stop and an old Enel tower, plays with design, but also wants to be, in flashes, ornamental and nostalgically retro. The original windows of the main building, shielded by square-shaped red metal filters, become a graphic motif of continuity even in the low walls. The pictorial story takes the form of a path that transforms itself in relation to the walls it encounters. Every living being, plant or fruit, seeks its place in the "habitat" we hope for, the one where man and nature can coexist in harmony.<br><br>Production:<br>Animal Hospital,<br>Cooperative Valle dell’Oreto.</div>

Habitat 

<div>Project called "Spazi capaci / comunita capaci", curated by Alessandro de Lisi and produced by the Giovanni Falcone foundation and the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the anniversaries of the assassinations of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Falcone and Borsellino were Sicilian judges and anti-mafia campaigners.<br>This project (public art against the mafia in Palermo), will last 3 years till 2023 and will present different art works.<br>Both murals of Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone represent the Portal of the Giants (La Porta dei Giganti).<br><br></div>

Paolo

<div>Project called "Spazi capaci / comunita capaci", curated by Alessandro de Lisi and produced by the Giovanni Falcone foundation and the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the assassination of Giovanni Falcone. Falcone was a Sicilian judge and anti-mafia campaigner.<br>This project (public art against the mafia in Palermo), will last 3 years till 2023 and will present different art works.<br>Andrea Buglisi will also create a mural for Paolo Borsellino. Another Sicilian judge who was killed by the mafia in 1992.<br><br>Update 19/07/21:<br>The Portal of the Giants (la Porta dei Giganti) is completed with the mural of Paolo Borsellino.<br><br></div>

Giovanni

<div>Five urban paintings that from 25 July to 1 August 2018 were painted simultaneously in five large walls of the Albergheria. The project, born from an idea of Igor Scalisi Palminteri and Andrea Buglisi, involved Alessandro Bazan, Andrea Buglisi, Angelo Crazyone, Fulvio Di Piazza and Igor Scalisi Palminteri who faced as many large walls located in the historic district of Ballarò / Albergheria. The monumental works have been conceived and designed to dialogue, each in its own way, with the urban fabric and the resident community of the neighborhood. Objective of the project: urban redevelopment through art, which is why squares were chosen that show signs of decay despite their great aesthetic and historical / cultural potential.</div>

Fides

<div>Created by Andrea Buglisi alias BUG_.TV in 2019 and is a part of the MURI di MARE Project - New mural in Terrasini.<br>It represents a carpenter's vis that balances an egg.<br>One more turn of the screw and the egg would shatter, one less and it would fall.</div><div>It is a reflection on theissues of precariousbalance, resistance and contrast, but it also has a political meaning as the term "crackdown" generally refers to the increased punishment of a specific crime. Its use has become common in every human sphere when it comes to any hardening of a norm or a way of behaving. Its etymology derives from a type of death sentence practiced in Spain: the garrote. In this type of condemnation, infact, at every turn of the screw an iron circle tightened to the throat of the condemned man to the point of causing death by strangulation.<br><br></div>

Giro di vite / (Turn of the Screw)

<div>The giant mural, measuring 350 square meters, is the work of the street art artist, Andrea Buglisi and a tribute to the late Ennio Morricone. "The work is not due to the artist who made it - Buglisi declares - but to a concert of energies that must converge on the same project. Personally, I'm a Morricone fan, so I made it with great enthusiasm. As for the gesture of silence represented in the mural, it is not an incitement to silence but to take a break, and to listen not only to music, but above all to pay attention to others ".</div>

The sound of silence

<div>Mural commissioned by the Rotary Club of Nicosia and the municipality of Nicosia.<br>The mural reflects a symbol of life that resists winter. The robin brings hope, optimism and good wishes for the new year. And is also a sign of rebirth and renewal. This small but symbolic bird also represents the generosity of the citizens of Nicosia and the Rotary club which in these difficult times of the pandemic, have shown to take good care of the weakest ones in society.&nbsp;<br>A Christian legend tells that these birds were originally gray, untill one of them tried to free Jesus, crucified with the crown of thorns. And became red by staining himself with his blood.<br>As a sign of gratitude, Jesus decided to leave the red colour to the little bird, so that everyone could recognize his goodness and generosity.&nbsp;<br>The white cross that the bird carries on the red chest refers to this legend. But also takes the shape and colours of the municipial coat of arms of Nicosia.&nbsp;<br>The work dialogues in form and content with "Fides", another mural by the artist in Palermo; in the fantastic and problematic area of Ballarò. A small hummingbird is immortalized in the utopian act of moving a large bolder.</div>

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