Maroggia

Jack Braglia

<div>The two works are inspired by the world of writing and Street Art. United Sprays contains spray cans wrapped with photographs taken by Jack Braglia of graffiti and urban works. Just spray it, on the other hand, is a tribute to fellow Street Artists, with a reference to the artist's authorship, which he signs through the colour poured onto the lawn. &nbsp;<br>The works are large in scale, as is typical of Braglia's production.&nbsp;</div>

#UnitedSpraysOfArt - #JustSprayIt

Andrea Ravo Mattoni

<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

Capo Bianco

<div>The first coloured mural by young Roman artist Capo Bianco.</div>

A WHEAT FIELD

Space_Shots

New Era

Nevercrew

<div>Created in 2017 to coincide with the first Artrust Street Art exhibition. The work depicts two figurative animal elements, in three dimensions, which are completely immersed in the place where they arise, reflecting the surrounding environment (car park, motorway etc).&nbsp;<br><br>Underneath the two whales is a two-dimensional stencil depicting a mechanism, an artificial man-made element, in stark contrast to the natural subjects. &nbsp;<br>This representation is typical of Nevercrew's works.&nbsp;<br><br><br></div>

Disposing Machine

Raul33

<div>Raul has used, as usual, the symbols and signs typical of his production. Waves, signs of energy, moons, suns, trees: a choral narrative particularly full of energy, dedicated to a public place of social sharing, such as the field. The yellow is a reference to the sun and the blue to the sky, set in a natural context and surrounded by vegetation. &nbsp;</div>

NOMADIC SIGNS X UNDERGROUND PLAYGROUND 

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TV BOY

<div>The work depicts David Bowie, with angel wings and a golden background. TvBoy usually celebrates famous people from the worlds of entertainment and art in his works; he therefore chose the figure of the White Duke, also taking into account the place that hosted his work, namely the walls of the Tondo Music shop, a vinyl and music shop, known throughout Ticino. &nbsp;</div>

Saint David

BigTato

<div>The work bears the artist's tag of the famous Pink Panther. On the right are also the tags of BigTato's crew. The work for sale at Artrust is dedicated to his mural.</div>

Big Panther

Chromeo

<div>The works of Chromeo always have a depth of content and never a pure decorative character:<br>the intent is to involve the viewer in an active comparison with the work. The involvement of the viewer is here made even easier by the position where the Lido di Maroggia is located, in fact, it is a leisure and refreshment point for the entire population and therefore the perfect place to immerse yourself in the living art of this professionist.</div>

 Symphony 

Rebor

<div>The work is apparently an advertising poster showing the face of a girl with blond hair, asking the question "I exist. And you?" and a large QR code. The code takes the public to Chiara Ascioni's Tik Tok profile, almost 9000 followers since its opening on 4 October 2020. This young woman posts very enigmatic videos, fragments, clips of scenes taken from the web in which her face often appears; the interaction of followers with the profile is remarkable. Chiara Ascioni, however, does not exist: everything about her is fake: her face has been created by an Artificial Intelligence crossing images from the web, while the texts of each post are generated by a chatbot, a software designed to simulate a conversation with a human being. The responses to the comments also come from the software and are simply filtered by the artist and chosen according to their adherence to the theme of the entire operation, a reflection on the difference between machine and human being. thinking about the three people mentioned in Rebor's title, the image on the poster, the TikTok profile and the ferryman that connects them, the qr code, one wonders: which is the real person among the three? Can we really go so far as not to distinguish an Artificial Intelligence from a human being? What are we willing to believe in order to feed our thirst for communication?&nbsp;</div>

Una e Tre Persone

Bane

<div>A black background, a blindfolded woman and a mobile phone that lights up her face. The message behind this wall by Bane could be the spasmodic use of technology without a true mastery of it. Art is reflection, for this reason each visitor will be able to put forward his own hypothesis, letting himself be overwhelmed by the power of the image.</div>

PERCEPTION

Madame Moustache

<div>The work was inspired by the tragic fire that destroyed the Maroggia Mill in December 2020, a disastrous socio-economic event that deeply marked the village of Maroggia and the whole of Ticino, as the Mill was the largest in the region. The large paste-up, positioned right on a wall of the only intact building of the Mill, nevertheless carries a message of great hope and rebirth.&nbsp;</div>

Dalle ceneri raccolte rifaremo un focolare 

Blub

<div>The work depicts the Dukes of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, a famous diptych by Pietro della Francesca, painted between 1465 and 1472, wearing water masks. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>The doors of the electric cabin have been painted blue to place the two figures in a suspended background, reminiscent of an underwater world. &nbsp;</div>

Sub Duchi di Urbino

Kelly Halabi

<div>Jardin de Pierre is the work of the artist Kelly Halabi, active at the Mill of Maroggia. The artist&nbsp;wanted to give new impetus to the place after the devastating fire that broke in 2020. Although the title of the installation is an oxymoron, Jardin de Pierres should be read as a good omen: from the ruins, something luxuriant and stronger will be born.</div>

Jardin de Pierre

Ozmo

<div>Ozmo is inspired by the famous Isle of the Dead by Arnold Bocklin, a Swiss painter and one of the main exponents of German symbolism. The original work, which is highly symbolic, has inspired numerous paintings, literature and music, as well as many personalities such as Lenin, Freud, D'Annunzio, Rachmaninov and others. There were five versions of this fascinating work, one of which was destroyed during the Second World War, and it was followed by a more joyful version called The Island of the Living, populated by animals and plants. In Ozmo's Island of the Living, on the other hand, we find bright colours and a joyful, cheerful and POP atmosphere (thanks also to elements such as the rainbow) typical of the Tuscan artist's poetics.&nbsp;</div>

L'isola dei vivi

Chinagirl Tile

<div>The work, depicting a goldfish and a plastic bag, enclosed in a light blue circle, refers to the Taijitu symbol, which contains Yin and Yang, the union of the two opposing principles. In the same way, the natural and uncontaminated world, represented by the fish, is contrasted with human and artificial, often destructive, interventions. The title of the work is infinite, just as - sadly - the plastic abandoned by man in nature is infinite.&nbsp;</div>

Unendlichkeit

Pro176

<div>Pro176's huge work, more than 24 metres long, incorporates suggestions from the world of comics, wrting and graffiti and figurative art. The result is an almost loose work in which recognisable elements, bright fields of colour and defined black outlines can be found. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>This is the first wall the artist has created after the COVID 2020 emergency, after 16 months of absence from the walls.&nbsp;</div>

Untitled

NeSpoon

<div>The work was created in a distinctive and highly identifiable place in Maroggia, the lakeside promenade, and set in a natural context - between the banks of the lake and the trees of the avenue - and experienced daily by the population. The entire village of Maroggia took part in the project by donating lace doilies used to create the work, further interweaving the relationship between art and territorial identity.</div>

Yuri Catania

NOCURVES

<div>In this 4-handed work, friends and colleagues Yuri Catania and NoCurves have chosen to combine their most recent techniques and artistic series. Yuri Catania has created one of his feline paste-ups, continuing the project of I gatti di Rovio, distributed throughout the town of Mendrisiotto; the protagonist of the wall is this time the cat of the owner of the Mulino di Maroggia. NoCurves chose instead to continue the floral series in coloured ribbon previously started, intervening freely on the wall and on the pasteup. Catania has also created a floral series, entitled Black Flowers Secret Garden, which will be exhibited at Artrust during spring 2021.&nbsp;</div>

The Black King and The Secret Flowers

Knox

Amore

El Xupet Negre

<div>The work is inspired by a unique work on canvas by El Xupet, with some modifications and references to the territory and the municipality (Marco writing dedicated to Tiraboschi, the owner of the building, ARTtrust, the sentence at the bottom).&nbsp;<br>El Xupet first made the base with coloured polka dots and three times the writing "NERO" - a reference to the dummy - in different languages, then he made the drawings, consisting only of the outlines, and the writing.&nbsp;<br><br><br></div>

Nero Wall

Serena Maisto

<div>The literal meaning of the word DISSEMINATION is the natural dispersal of seeds from the mother plant, mostly by external agents (water, wind, animals, etc.) over as wide an area as possible. In the case of Maisto's work, it is the natural dispersion of my artistic work through people and images. The work entitled DISSEMINATION OF WORDS is the artist's first real open-air installation and consists of 8 words (in English). These words not only describe his poetics but summarise the source of inspiration that leads me to create: emotion and love. The words chosen are WAY, LINE, LIFE, CUT, LOVE, EMOTION, ENCOUNTER and INTERLACEMENT. They are enclosed inside opaque black aluminium boxes, individually, with one side in plexiglass showing the writing strictly in neon (old-fashioned), in yellow paste (if switched off it remains coloured). The choice of the colour yellow is not accidental, but can be traced back to energy, to the warmth of the sun, to the strength of spirit and to constancy, dedication and the light that illuminates the artistic path.&nbsp;</div>

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