Andrea Ravo Mattoni

Processus Mona Lisa

<div>For the 50 yrs of university , 8 street artists came to put an historic&nbsp; piece&nbsp;</div>

«Le tricheur à l’as de carreaux » toile de Georges Delatour

<div>Peinting by Andrea Ravo Mattoni</div>

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<div>Making the great classics of painting accessible by giving them new life in the street, this is the philosophy that drives Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Coming from a family of artists, “Ravo” naturally immersed himself in the world of painting from an early age. First as a graffiti artist then in a more classical way at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera where the Italian painter devotes himself to oil and acrylic. It is by merging these two passions that Andrea Ravo Mattoni creates her style "dal classicismo al contemporaneo" and an ambitious project: to recreate great masterpieces of the past sprayed on the walls in order to make them accessible to all. “We have so much beauty behind us that we can flood the world with poetry. My project is ambitious, but I consider it above all as a mission. I feel like a conductor who likes to present Beethoven. "<br><br><a href="https://www.ville-boulogne-sur-mer.fr/street-art/project/andrea-ravo-mattoni/">Discover Andrea Ravo Mattoni</a></div>

<div>It is with one of Caravaggio's most famous works that Ravo pays homage to Arvi, a company that has adopted Ravo's wall and is active in the pegged wine trade, by painting Michelangelo Merisi's Bacchus on its façade. The subject is probably the same as "Il Suonatore di Liuto", "Ragazzo morso da un ramarro", "Fanciullo con un canestro di Frutta", and other masterpieces by the 16th-century painter; some identify him as Mario Minniti, a painter, friend and perhaps lover of Caravaggio himself, and others (including Ravo) as the castrato Pedro Montoya, at that time a cantor in the Sistine Chapel.&nbsp; Ravo wanted to highlight the character with the elements in the foreground, isolating the central figure and sacrificing the dark background. This allows the painting to emerge more strongly from the concrete wall. This stylistic choice also reflects the evolution of Ravo's poetics, which lately focuses on subjects and details.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Caravaggio "Bacco" 1595

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<br>One of the famous copies by Andrea Ravo Mattoni made with spray paint, perfectly imitating the great classics of art history, magnifying their dimensions.</div>

Caravaggio: Conversione di San Paolo

<div>&nbsp;<strong>Lieu de l’œuvre: rue du Chapitre, 2 - 7000 Mons</strong><br>&nbsp;<br> Unir le passé au présent, unir l'art classique et l'art contemporain est l'ambition d'Andrea Ravo Mattoni dans cette œuvre consacrée à sainte Waudru.<br>&nbsp;<br> Pour faire dialoguer le passé et le présent l'artiste combine techniques d'apprentissages académiques et utilisation du spray, œuvres classiques et supports accessibles. Le projet peut se résumer ainsi : reproduire sur de grands murs, visibles à tous, les peintures de l'art classique. Chaque œuvre choisie a un lien précis avec le territoire où elle est reproduite et devient ainsi une occasion de rétablir le dialogue entre le classicisme et le territoire contemporain. L'utopie qui se dessine est celle d'une grande pinacothèque en plein air, avec des œuvres qui, jusqu'à présent, étaient exposées et "enfermées" dans les salles des plus grands musées du monde.<br>&nbsp;<br> Pour ce projet à Mons, j'ai décidé de peindre sur un grand mur l’œuvre de Antoine Van Ysendick, "Sainte Waudru et ses filles visitant les prisonniers". Sainte Waudru est la sainte protectrice de la Ville et de plus l’œuvre se trouve dans la Collégiale en face du mur. Il me semblait évident de mettre en lumière ce chef-d’œuvre.&nbsp;</div>

"Sainte Waudru et ses filles visitant les prisonniers"

<div>The work of this Italian artist is characterized by transferring to the public space the works of the great masters of art history with the aim of democratizing this heritage. The artist works with spray paint since he comes from the world of traditional graffiti and another of the objectives of the work is to destigmatize the use of sprays.<br><br>It is the first time that this renowned artist paints in Spain and he has done so with a piece inspired by ‘The triumph of Bacchus’, a work by the Spanish artist Velázquez that is preserved in the Prado Museum and was created in 1629.&nbsp;</div>

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