About the artist

Francesco Spanò, born in 1984, resident in Livorno, known by his pseudonym “NINJART,” is an eclectic street artist and painter who has been active in the graffiti scene since 1998. He began his artistic career as a writer, and soon turned his passion into a profession, creating commissioned works for public and private entities. During his school years, where he graduated with honors in Painting from the F. Russoli Art Institute in Pisa, he began to move into the contemporary art market, presenting his paintings in solo and group exhibitions in many Italian cities, entering various national competitions, and often winning prizes and important awards, such as in 2008 when one of his works became part of the exhibition at the Museo della Permanente in Milan. The constant in his work is an instinctive passion for everything that allows him to express a contrasting and complex inner world, studded with the dreams of youth, but also with more mature awareness. From dreamlike visions bordering on original surrealism to splashes of color in the most classic of action painting settings; from comic book graphics and pop art to symbolic visions of clear Eastern origin; from pure explosions of color to evident memories of tachisme, to naturalism inspired by the classics; from a sort of composed hyperrealism to the purest graffiti: these are the areas, the territories of Ninjart's experimentation.The icons of his myths multiply, mix, and integrate in continuous linguistic and cultural contaminations, forming compositions characterized by the intense and sometimes whirlwind dynamism of signs and colors. it is a mixture of different styles and languages, assimilated and reworked with a decisive personal imprint and a clear, determined approach, where jazz and hip hop music often influence the image represented or the very meaning of the work. Therefore, even today, it is an ongoing research project, characterized by authenticity of intent and mature discipline of method, charged from the beginning of his artistic career with sincere and pure love for art.

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