Pompei

Estera Balintfi - Pompei Street Festival

Cool Disco Rich

<div>”The idea is to tell a story with symbols and color. The skulls represent loss and are in primary colors. The flowers represent life and are in secondary colors. The girl is the element that represents life experience she is represented in tertiary colors. With the use of colors and symbols I mean to say the end is beginning.” – CoolDiscoRich<br><br>A self-taught artist, Matthew Mederer aka (Cool Disco Rich) has been pushing boundaries and promoting original ideas through his artwork for over 20 years. His depth and breadth of styles, ranging from graffiti to realism, have helped him realize an original body of work.</div><div><br>&nbsp;His signature style combines, Realism, and optical illusions. The mixing of styles gives his work an undeniably original form to his murals. He’s worked nationally and internationally on public art projects. His art has been featured on the television show, NBC’s Chicago PD. In the summer of 2020, he completed a portrait for Sounding Boards Chicago which got nods from the Chicago MCA and the Smithsonian.</div><div><br><br></div>

„Infinite Rebirth”

Rata Virus

<div>Maradona, for Rata Virus, represents a symbol of revolution, understood positively, the power of change, and the redemption of one's social position.<br><br></div><div>“Forza Napoli, this mural is dedicated to all the revolutionaries in the world. This work of art carved with a drill uses the ruins of archaeological cities destroyed by Vesuvios as a context, to portray the most beloved and important god of Naples (Maradona). Santa Maradona is the finished work of art consisting of two sculpted murals. "- Rata Virus<br><br>Rata Virus, a Chilean street artist known for his particular technique of&nbsp; raving the wall surface. His works have great expressive power and are always linked to the spirit of the place. The artist prefers not to talk about himself, he just wants to say that he has generated a great love for Naples and identifies with the passion of this city together with the ancient cities such as Castellammare di Stabia and Pompei.<br><br></div>

„Maradona archeologico”

Quick Pen

<div>Revisitation of the "Dancing Faun," an artist's intuition to link the faun to the Vesuvius eruption that devastated the city in 79 AD. Is it a paradox or a wish? The faun celebrates his victory over the volcano's eruptive power by taking a selfie with the fire extinguisher.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Born in Tunisia in 1985, Akram Toujani graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis and works between Tunisia and Turkey. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture, performance, installation and storyboarding, among other disciplines. He focuses on time and temporality and is noted for his speed and use of the stopwatch as a plastic element, which inspired the Quick Pen concept. Through drawing and calligraphy on a variety of subjects, particularly 'revisited heritage', he produces a resolutely neat and illustrative aesthetic. Each artwork highlights the opportunity for interaction and storytelling that exists in public space, as well as black and white characters and revisited writing. The public can see provocative frescoes in carefully chosen settings. Everything, in his perspective, revolves around the image he has in his head and the drive he has to make his ideas a reality. He only wants to complete his task.&nbsp;</div>

“Extincteur dansant"

Alex Senna

Alex Senna (BRA)

<div>This black and white artwork depicts a frozen moment in time, drawing a connection between Pompeii's history and the present day.&nbsp; We can observe that the flora continues to grow and that animals remain around, demonstrating that nature never stops and that time continues to run while the girl remains motionless.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Alex Senna, born in Orlândia, Brazil, and currently residing in São Paulo, began painting in the streets in 2004 after being influenced by comics and graffiti. His black-and-white figures in his murals and paintings tell stories about life, solitude, and romance. The message is strengthened by the use of black and white and very elegant simplicity. Senna has exhibited and painted murals in over 25 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Hong Kong, England, Denmark, Holland, France, Italy, Germany, Israel, and Russia.&nbsp;</div>

"Tempus"

Mr.Garek

<div>&nbsp;“This mural seeks to establish a dialogue with the viewer, aiming to be a doorway to various questions about the times in which we live. Modernity has filled society with useless values that are hollow and empty, the speed with which we consume information, and then discard it today is unprecedented in the history of our humanity. New technologies have given us the ability to have instant communication and an unlimited information network, but they have also produced isolation, loneliness, and selfishness.&nbsp;</div><div>With this work, I would like to make people reflect and revise the values that have shaped our society, and return to the ideals proposed by the Renaissance, of beauty, knowledge, reason, spirituality, and renewal in the sciences, both natural and human. It is necessary to rediscover rationality and consciousness from beauty, which has significance in itself rather than in its function or value, from the ideal of knowledge by illumination rather than domination, reconciling the past with the present, and moving toward a second Renaissance.&nbsp;</div><div>Are we prepared for a new Renaissance?” – Mr.Garek&nbsp;</div><div><br>An urban artist since 2008 in Caracas-Venezuela, Mr.Garek graduated in 2013 from the design institute Caracas, he works as an illustrator, designer, and 2D and 3D animator. Throughout his career as an urban artist, he has taken part in several international festivals in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia, including the Meeting of Styles, Styles Street, Atacart Cucuta Festival of the North Brave Sons, Killart, Graficalia, and others. In 2015, he was the curator of an art festival in Venezuela, bringing together 120 national and international artists. In 2016, he was featured in the book ‘Latino Colors’, a publication of the University of Palermo, Argentina, of the finest Latin American illustrators. Since 2014, he has completed large-scale intervention projects, the most recent being a 225-square-meter mural in Medellin and a 350-square-meter painting in Bogota.&nbsp;</div>

"Rinascimento"

C215

<div>The "TITUS SPQR" portrait shows the face of the Roman emperor Titus Vespasian that C215 took from the Titus Flavius​​Vespasianus statue kept in the Braccio Nuovo, Chiaramonti Museum of the Vatican Museums. Better known simply as Titus, he was the 10th Roman emperor, belonging to the Flavian dynasty. He was a skilled and respected general who distinguished himself for the suppression of the rebellion in Judea of ​​70, during which the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. He is known for his public works program in Rome and his generosity in helping the population following two disastrous events: the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and the fire in Rome in 80.&nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 - which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, and has caused very serious damage to the cities and communities around the Gulf of Naples, and a disastrous fire that broke out in Rome the following year, allowed Tito to show his generosity: in both cases, he contributed with his wealth to repair the damage and alleviate the suffering of the population. These episodes and the fact that no death sentence was passed during his principality, earned him the appellation among contemporary historians of "delight of the human race" (Ausonio then resized this appellation by claiming, in Caesar, Titus, that the principality of Titus was rather "happy in its brevity"). He visited Pompeii immediately after the disastrous eruption, and again the following year. For his generosity and the substantial agreement with the Senate, he was considered a good emperor by Tacitus and other contemporary historians.<br><br>The French-born artist Christian Guémy, known as C215, is currently considered one of the best stencil artists around. He has been producing street art for about twenty years through paintings, drawings, and stencils, experimenting with surfaces of all sizes: from mailboxes to old abandoned doors to huge walls of buildings. He started using spray painting techniques in 2005 and his attention was focused on creating portraits of people: the elderly, children, refugees, beggars, that category of people we often forget to recognize in life.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Guémy 's production was not limited solely to the marginalized and the unknown. In recent years C215 has made several interventions that recall missing journalists or figures of famous people from history, or even stencil representations of Renaissance art. Fascinated by the paintings of Caravaggio and Ernst Pignon, he tries to interact with the urban context by reflecting in his works the feelings that are hidden behind a glance.</div><div><br></div><div>C215 participated in the Au-delà du street art exhibition at the Musée de La Poste in Paris: his works were exhibited alongside those of Banksy, Invader, and Shepard Fairey.</div>

"TITUS SPQR"

Guido Palmadessa

<div>”So usually the symbolic layers overlapping the portraits account for the mixture of languages, culture ​​and identities that exist in our societies. Stars for me are also somehow speaking about dreams, sometimes future projections or the past.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>It does not have one meaning but I use them to have another layer with symbolic meanings that each can add to the artwork, I like to think that they are like a layer of thoughts, or language, and also sometimes just a decorative element.” – Guido Palmadessa<br><br>Guido Palmadessa is a painter and muralist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently living in Berlin, Germany. His works include paintings, drawings, and murals, going from oils on linen to large-scale public projects. Focused on the social component of art, Guido runs an art project for marginal neighborhoods in South America, painting in creatively needed contexts. His style is a mix of imagination, symbolism, and social reality – it’s all about the human condition. Traveling extensively, Guido’s art is a lens through which he sees the world, and he considers art a bridge that speaks to people and builds a sense of community. His public paintings can be seen in Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

“Ricordo”

JahOne

<div>“Moma means young woman in Bulgarian. This artwork represents beauty and respect for life in all forms, from sea to land, from fish to human beings. The geometry in the background is an ancient symbol for prosperity, wellbeing, and luck, as it is found in many cultures around the globe.” – JahOne<br><br>Ioan Tzenkov / JahOne / is a contemporary graffiti artist and mural painter based in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2010 he started using spray paint as a medium for self-expression, and walls became his canvas. In 2013 JahOne graduated from the National Academy of Arts, majoring in Graphic Design and Advertising. His creative expression develops in the direction of realistic-fantastic characters of people, animals, and fabulous creatures. Intertwined with images and symbols of different cultural heritages from around the world the artworks are depicted in contrasting combinations of dreamy colors.&nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;Murals by JahOne can be seen in different countries around the world - Germany, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, USA - California. He took part in group exhibitions on domestic and foreign stages. He also is a co-founder of the VISIONARY Foundation - a platform for contemporary visual projects in the urban environment.</div>

”Moma”

Spos.Art

<div>The artwork pays homage to the mythological figure of Partenope, and it is intended to convey a message of optimism to the Neapolitan people. It tells the story of the dying princess's arrival in the gulf, resting on the water, as Naples. There is death and life in this work: the burial rite and the Neapolitan soul that will be born from it. The feathers refer to the myth.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Andrea Sposari, aka SPOS, is a Sicilian street artist born in 1992. He starts his adventure at the age of 14, like everyone else illegally, and in a cartoon manner, until he achieves his current surrealist form. He works on projects in Sicily, as well as Calabria, Lombardy, Liguria, and England, and was invited to represent Italy at the Techfest in Bombay. In recent years, he has taken part in various festivals, created an itinerant street art project that tours the world, worked for Linea Blu, Enel, and international DJs Giol and Assia, and developed Sicily's first FIBA-recognized creative playground.&nbsp;</div>

"Partenope"

Maxi Bagnasco

Maximilano Bagnasco

<div>Few people are aware that football legend Diego Maradona was a benefactor of Pompei's orphanages. Maximiliano Bagnasco wished to commemorate him with a mural in Pompei to remind everyone of his generous nature.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>"I never expected that my mural would lead to the renaming of a street in Pompei. I often say that I want to transform places, and it has finally occurred. My homage to Diego is a new victory for Diego! Many thanks to the Pompeians and the Pompei Street Festival organisers for their support!" Maximiliano Bagnasco&nbsp;</div><div><br>Argentine artist, Maximiliano Bagnasco studied advertising was always associated with drawing, painting, caricatures, portraits, illustrations, graphic humour, cartoons, and muralism. At the age of 17, he began publishing books and journals, and at the age of 21, he switched to a more performative stage, creating caricatures live at parties, events, and television channels. He created graphics for national and international publications. His art crossed borders and reached celebrities such as Steven Tyler, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns n' Roses, and Megadeth. In 2014, he released his book and began teaching drawing, realistic painting, portraiture, and caricature, where he devised approaches for quick learning and welcomed students from a wide range of creative disciplines. He is currently working with Domestika on an online course that is sold all over the world and available in six languages. Maxi received commissions to create paintings and murals in honour of notable Argentine cultural figures, including Lionel Messi, Ernesto Sábato, Jorge Luis Borge, Mercedes Sosa, Mariano Mores, Jorge Guinzburg, and Ringo Bonavena. In his newly established "Maxi Bagnasco Arts Space," he conducts workshops. He gained international recognition for his Maradona paintings and murals, appearing on the world's most major media outlets, such as Rai, CNN, ESPN, TVE, and Telemundo.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

"Largo Maradona"

M-City (POL)

<div>The inspiration comes from the story of Hercules (the mythical founder of Herculaneum, a city close to Pompeii and destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79) at the same time, it also comes from the legend that interprets Vesuvius as a monster with two heads (Leo and goat) and Snake's tail (the Chimera).<br><br>&nbsp;The titan pictured here, holding up the columns, has a reminiscent appearance of the superhero Cyborg, a DC Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez in 1980, with a bionic eye. Cyborg is best known for being a longtime member of the Teen Titans group of the Justice League.</div><div><br>&nbsp;This element recalls one of the expressive sources that dominate the works of M-City, represented by the graphics of video games and the culture of comics, which certainly inspired his formative years.<br><br>Born in Poland, Mariusz Waras, better known as M-City, is one of the best-known street artists on the international scene. His creative production is characterized by the use of Stencils, a technique that has made him famous all over the world. He is a lecturer at the Szczecin Academy of Arts, where he conducts the Painting and Street Art Course at the Department of Painting and New Media, from the next academic year he will also teach the Street Art Course for the Department of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Gdansk, where he graduated. In addition to his academic work, he carries out graphic design and illustration activities and builds spatial installations and large-format sculptures. As a street artist, he animates the space with the narration of different stories, where the main subject is always the metropolis, with its infinite variations. His production retains a stylistic emblem that is structured thanks to two distinct inspirations: the first brings us closer to a playful atmosphere, that of videogames, the other of a geopolitical nature that emphasizes the need for a critical approach towards society; thus the artist makes it possible for us to understand how geographic reasons influence political action.&nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;The M-City project which today includes seven hundred murals he painted all over the world, his works are visible in the major cities and nations of the world: Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Thailand, England, Belgium, France, Australia, Serbia, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Finland, USA, Tunisia and more.</div>

“Titan”

Isi Celis

<div>"The work is a tribute to the myth of the sirens and to the change in the image of the siren itself over the centuries, which took place following the Viking invasions, to underline the importance of contamination between different cultures and the power of the imagination. " – Isi Celis<br><br>Isi is a Chilean artist known for her style, which combines the ancestral with the metaphysical, achieving a multidimensional fantasy story.<br><br></div>

“Le sirene ed Ulisse”

Nino Come

<div>"The drawing represents and praises the art of craftsmanship, in particular Italian sculpture. The Renaissance was a fundamental era in the history of art not only in Italy, but in the world. And this is what, together with the naturalistic beauties and the glories of ancient civilizations, often gives us a living through tourism. The Renaissance showed its most impressive side in architecture, but it was also able to give us memorable works in terms of sculpture, which have become one of the masterpieces of humanity. The drawing represents a Neapolitan sculptor friend of mine in the foreground. While in the background there is the Royal Palace of Quisisana, a historic residence located in the hilly area of Castellammare di Stabia. " - Nino Come<br><br>Nino Come is an Italian Street Artist with a passion for drawings and murals. His inspiration &amp; creativity comes from the world around him. He found himself in the world of art through comics. He is among the emerging street artists considered to be one of the most promising in Naples, Italy. "When I start drawing time freezes and I have access to a space that can only be unlocked when I grab a pen. In that space, I start thinking about the current world we live in and translate it into my art. The faces of people watching my art is the best thing ever, it makes my work so worth it and funny!" - Nino Come</div>

„Lo  Scultore”

<div>Castellammare di Stabia is a small Italian town in the suburb of Naples (southern Italy). The city is known for its ancient baths and its 28 water sources which have been used for various health treatments for centuries. The springs have proved to be healthy until today, however, the baths have been closed and have been rotting for years but no one knows why no one has done anything about it. " - MTO<br><br>MTO, aka Mateo, is a Graffiti artist, video-maker, and muralist from France. He started working as MTO in 2008 in Berlin where he lived from 2006 to 2013. His style was characterized by Black&amp;White&amp;Red realistic paintings made with spray cans. He then evolved towards muralism with more conceptual and political works, not necessarily figurative, which can be found on a giant scale and on façades all over the world.<br><br></div>

„Il segreto di Stabiae”

EMMEU

<div>“I have worked on the contrast, it is an anamorphic work divided over two walls. On the left side, there are five squares, the square in ancient Rome is the symbol of the walls that surround the city. On the right side, there is a spiral labyrinth that represents the city with two beams of red light (Pompeian red) that cut the wall.” – Emmeu<br><br>Emmeu is an Italian artist. Graduating from Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, his research revolves around pure geometry, with an artistic touch combining Escher’s relativity and Cryptik’s oriental mandalas. His works of art seek to capture solid shapes as they expand and multiply out of a nucleus during mitosis, a process that starts from a cube, which LeWitt considered to be the purest and most intelligible shape out there. His artworks are depictions of explosions characterized by luminous lines that gradually expand as a result of a kind of artistic Doppler effect. The main purpose is to provide the observer with a dynamic reality that gradually transforms. His works can be found in various countries such as Iran, England, Portugal, Spain, as well as in different cities in Italy.</div>

"Anamorphic"

Caiozzama

<div>This artwork aims to illustrate the environmental destruction caused by consumerism, the greed to turn everything into economic profit by encouraging people to buy products they don't necessarily need, depleting natural resources, and destroying the fauna and flora of this world. Its purpose is to raise awareness and encourage people to think about the environmental damage caused by excessive consumption.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Caiozzama, a Chilean artist, was born in Santiago de Chile in 1980.&nbsp; He is a journalistic photographer as well as an urban and visual artist Angels, classical paintings, and social icons mingle in his works as political commentary and censorship of today's excessive consumerism. His paintings have been shown in national and international fairs and exhibitions, as well as on the walls of Colombia, France, Mexico, Italy, Holland, and Spain, to mention a few countries.&nbsp;</div>

"Capitalipsis Now"

Monks

<div>"It is a representation of what happened to the volcano almost 2000 years ago and how it can be resurfaced from the ashes." - Monks<br><br>Monks is a self-taught urban artist located in the city of Lima, Peru. He started his work around 2011 by making illustrations and paintings. In the beginning, Monks began painting on the roof of his house with some friends from the university. It was not until 1 year after painting several weekends on the same roof that he went out and discovered this love for the streets. His main source of inspiration are animals, psychedelia, and hip hop, the monks tries to reflect a unique universe in which animals have thoughts, style, and attitude. His signature is using very bright colors combined with highlights of fluorescent colors which makes him and his unique artworks.</div>

Untitled

Caz.L

<div>„A picture of a bathhouse fresco in ancient city of Castellammare di Stabia "sticks" like a souvenir photo to the tiles of a bathroom and pours its memories over two bathers. Preserving and telling history is like a warm shower for the human soul.” – Ann CAZ. L<br><br>Under the tag CAZ.L, Ann, a German artist, is discovering the streets as a playground for her art. The increasing sophistication of her stencil technique helped her reach the finals several times at the World Stencil Art Prize in Sydney. After making a license to drive lifting platforms, she decided not long ago, to expand her artistic portfolio with larger images, like a mural painting. She has artworks and murals made in cities and countries worldwide, such as New York, Berlin, Munchen, Madrid, New South Wales in Australia, and Bristol, United Kingdom.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>

„Acque di Stabiae”

wedo goas

Wedo

<div>“Throughout our lives, we always have a mirror nearby. I don't know any other animal that needs something like that. Do we need to check every day to see if we continue to inhabit the same body?” – Wedo&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Wedo is a Spanish artist who graduated with honors from the University of Fine Arts in Barcelona in 2017. He also studied engraving and illustration in the art schools of Ramón Falcón in Lugo, Spain, and Pablo Picasso in A Corua, Spain. Since 2019, the Poblenou Urban District in Barcelona has represented the artist. He has taken part in various national and international Urban Art Festivals. His realistic approach blends impressionism and modern painting in a large format, providing a theme that aims to highlight current social problems.&nbsp;</div>

“Blind Reflexes”

<div>By reproducing the battle of Lucio Cornelio Silla, during which Pompeii was conquered in the summer of 89 BC, the artist aimed to illustrate the message that even a triumph, if won through violence, is highly harmful: in the end, there remains nothing more than ruins.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>RUN is a female Iranian street artist based in Tehran since 2012. She travels and paints nature-inspired portraits, murals and paste-ups, digital arts, and other works primarily with spray paint and acrylic paints. She seeks to explore what lies within humans and how feelings and emotions can alter our perception. She also uses handmade paste-ups to spread her artwork throughout the city, attracting passersby's attention. RUN's artwork can be found in Iran, Turkey, Oman, Georgia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Armenia, UAE, and Germany. Aside from her artworks and murals, she has participated in meetings, exhibitions, meetings of styles, festivals, and events, is also the first female skateboarder in Iran, having skated since 2009.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“Street art and graffiti bring people together through the creation of art.” - RUN&nbsp;</div>

"The War"

MOUSE

<div>The artist chose not to provide a thorough description of the artwork for this mural, instead leaving it to the viewer's imagination and perspective to make sense of it. She loves drawing inspiration from keywords. Cosmos, nature, fire, earth, water, air, energy, time, balance, chaos, wisdom, spirit, soul, heart, body, colour, shape, light, shadow, peace, and love are the themes of this painting.&nbsp;<br><br>MOUSE, a Bulgarian visual artist, works in painting, drawing, illustration, and installation. She is a Co-founder of the SUNSHINERS and FAMOU art collectives. In 2018, she received the Red Pony Art Gallery Award for Painting in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and the UNICREDIT Bulbank Award for Young Talents. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, projects, festivals, and conferences in Bulgaria and abroad. MOUSE is the author of several solo exhibitions, including ‘Tales from My Planet’, in 2014 at the Robevci Gallery in Ohrid, Macedonia, ‘Brum’, in 2012 at the Hedgehog Gallery in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, and ‘About Dreams’, in 2009 at the Gaia Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. MOUSE presently lives and works in Varna, where she's teaches a children's sketching class called 'Alphabet of imagination' since 2014.&nbsp;</div>

“Love is the Key”

Etienne

<div>For this mural, the artist was inspired by Gordon Tarpley's sculpture "No time for love," finding the materials and composition appealing and fitting to the format in which he wished to paint. He changed the word "love" to "war," causing a profound reflection on the tragedies we are witnessing that affect society and the environment at the same time, thus attempting to understand how much and how we can save what is still possible both for ourselves and, most importantly, for future generations.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Etienne Cristoffanini is a multidisciplinary artist born in Chile, who creates artworks that combine naturalism and abstraction. He obtained a bachelor's degree in plastic arts from the University of Chile in 2012 and a painter's degree in 2013. He also earned a postgraduate degree in creative illustration from EINA University School of Design and Art in Barcelona in 2022. Currently, he is a Cultural Manager at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In his art creations, compositions with expressiveness and reality interact between the rational and the intuitive. Through mural painting, these points of view are materially combined with tattoo techniques and intervening graffiti. The artist's proposals are founded on the fundamental concepts of interaction and links.&nbsp;</div>

“Non c’è tempo per la guerra”

Luispak

<div>"The artwork is a tribute to the ancestral memory of the life that arises from the depths of the Earth following the paths of magma. An extreme nature that takes the forms of the marvelous: a real giant that assumes the traits of myth when expressed through the semantics of fire and underground power, to become a poetic metaphor when it invades the anthropological question of the anthropization of surface lands. The children of the volcano, the inhabitants of the present and the past, from the dawn of time witnesses of its generating and destructive force, have learned to love the philosophical and existential baseload, which involves living in contact with Vesuvius. The impermanence of things is the leitmotif of this ancient tale that is handed down in narratives, anecdotes, and fairy tales. Never as here, existence overflows the essence. Everything is transitory, everything changes, nothing is eternal but the acceptance of this truth, or rather, its concrete and constant perception, allows those who live in the womb of Vesuvius to be part of a dangerous gaze to be in the full sense of life. "<br><br>Also known as Luispak, Luigi Longobardi, a nocturnal painter, graffiti artist, graphic designer, illustrator, was born in 1984 in Salerno. An early lover of comics and drawing, he approaches, at the age of 13, the world of writing, choosing his path in a continuous study of his signature and a constant search for an artistic identity until the foundation, in 1999, of the "Drak "crew. Mixing all of her experiences of him she puts his feelings, experiences, and dreams on a wall, searching for style, shape, and style of typefaces.<br><br></div>

“E Vulcano Natus”

Ollio

<div>The black and white shapes on a colourful background reflect actual or metaphorical objects that have been lost and forgotten over time. The artist was motivated by archaeological excavations and the notion of looking amid the forgotten items on the shelf "lost and found." The small and large scale objects symbolise what we can lose during our lives.&nbsp;<br><br>OLLIO, who was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, began painting on the streets as a teenager in the nineties. He went to art school after several years of just painting graffiti, and he received his MFA in art in 2007. His primary formats are painting and textiles, such as tufted rugs. He has made many exhibitions throughout Sweden and over 1000 murals in various contexts, receiving more than 45 public commissions from different municipalities. Abstract patterns appear frequently in his paintings, often in a variety of shapes and shades. Colours and palettes are very important in his artwork, which is why he frequently focuses on them. &nbsp;</div>

"Lost and Found"

Steso Primo

<div>"I wanted to express the popular conditions of this place using colors." – Steso Primo<br><br>Steso Primo alias Hugo-Alexandre Sanz, is a street artist from Avignon, France. From very early on, he was immersed in a dense cultural universe, attending at a very young age different Festivals and other exhibitions, which helped to arouse his thirst for creation, which remains intact and growing to this day. Visiting museums and studying at the Avignon Art College confirmed his passion for painting and creating. His numerous trips to Europe and his predilection for Italy, where he painted a big fresco on the Amalfi Coast, reinforce in him his love and his quest for beauty in everything. Combining his ideas for a fairer world and a planet that needs to be safeguarded, his leitmotif can be summed up as follows: Art for peace. Mastering the techniques of oil and acrylic, the spray paint he uses to create his works are all signals for lasting peace in this world. The young artist, whose work bears witness to an explosion of color, strong sensitivity, and promising talent, leaves people questioning the meaning of life in a troubled world. His colorful and spontaneous works will help you discover the world from another angle.<br><br></div>

„Throwup Stabia”

Klonism

<div>This artwork is KLONISM’s version of one of the many frescos found in the ancient city of Pompeii. It features a peacock surrounded by lemon trees and embodies the resurrection of Pompeii from the ashes and lava. The peacock is a symbol of eternity, showing that art will exist indefinitely and will never be destroyed.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>The 34-year-old artist Jake, aka KLONISM, is from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Many people across the globe have seen his artwork and have impressed many of them. His works of art are in the graffiti genre and have vibrant colors that catch the eye. He was 12 years old when he first became passionate about graffiti. At 22, he made a professional move and started teaching art creation in schools. He taught them how to paint murals and organized after-school activities for kids. He currently divides his time between Denver, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, but he also travels extensively to create murals. KLONISM took part in many art festivals around the United States, the most recent being AWOL at Art Basel in Miami. Jake's artwork is bold and intricate; he takes delight in his work, and this allows his artistic brilliance to shine through.&nbsp;</div>

“Klonisms Enchanted Garden” 

Feoflip

<div>embodied waste, wasted drunk;<br>smoke the river, diesel in the glass<br>and Bacchus came out of a bottle* battle in the afterlife,</div><div><br>prosperous oil companies, cover the plastic<br>the skin of this Earth.<br>the insatiable thirst, sour society.<br>left party, and consumed conscience,&nbsp;<br>nature is wise, incredulous humanity.<br><br>”between Vesuvius and Benehuare,<br>Tajogaite and Pompei,</div><div><br>in Palma”<br>open wound,<br>mountain bleeding...<br>wash or stain</div><div><br>to be Venus next to Hephaestus<br>and his uncontrollable violence,&nbsp;<br>sometimes Gaea,&nbsp;<br>asking respect for the Earth<br>or the treacherous swan&nbsp;<br>who seduced Leda.&nbsp;<br>the mirage<br>that confuses tragedy and beauty<br>Centuries and cycles<br>secret gossip,&nbsp;<br>up to 6 months...<br><br>he fury and uncontrollable hunger of the fire,<br>blacksmith strength,<br>reinterpretation of Vulcano,<br>for Greeks Hephaestus.<br><br>Feoflip is an artist born in the Canary Islands His story begins around the year 2000 when street painting did not receive any artistic recognition. He moved at night to make his pieces of him. Since then he has not stopped painting on the walls and always accompanied him by his black book. His work of art is a hybrid and mutation of science fiction, biomechanics, steampunk, dreamlike visions, and many times you can read an eternal debate between technology and nature, dehumanizing by new communication devices. Feofl!p continues to walk past the next wall, where each mural is a challenge, an investigation, and a story to tell.</div>

"Mitos Metálicos"

Linas Kaziulionis

<div>“The fresco from background is from Stabia villa Arianna and on top you can see the sculpture of Roman goddess Flora (fresco of her also you can find in Stabia).” – Linas Kaziulionis<br><br>Linas Kaziulionis is an artist from Lithuania, graduated in Painting at Vilnius Art Academy in 2018, and was granted the professional artist status provided by the Ministry of Culture.&nbsp; He has been active in the art world for more than seven years, participated in interdisciplinary and painting projects. Also at the beginning of the year, he founded the public creative studio K ART 7 in the Old Town of Vilnius, where artistic presentations are gaining momentum.</div><div><br></div><div>The artistic experience of L. Kaziulionis can be divided into two parts: one – muralistic art, which made the artist known even outside the country, and secondly – classical painting, which is interesting for its depth, conceptual, and freshness. L. Kaziulionis’ large-scale muralistic works have become the landscapes of the city or certain subcultures inviting dialogue with the artists and history of the past. This is a favorite theme of Linas, which has escalated in more than one of his well-known works of classical art, which are interwoven with the images and details of the modern world, questioning their influence and place in the life of modern man. The use of different authors, characters, installation of works using the latest technologies becomes a leitmotif of L. Kaziulionis's work, enticing even a young audience who is not interested in art. On the other hand, classical oil painting is very intimate, small-format, and contemplativ.<br><br></div>

„Flora”

DACO

<div>&nbsp;“The rebirth of the city after the eruption of vesuvius, symbolized by the phoenix. A symbol that is also found on the coat-of-arms of the city of Castellammare di Stabia.” – Daco<br><br>Daco started graffiti in the 90s by doing classic lettering, flops and tags, in vacant lots, on trains, on walls, in the wasteland.&nbsp; Over the years his style has evolved and he was quickly drawn to the WildStyle (complex, almost illegible lettering style). He oriented himself in an unstructured, fragmented style to create a visual identity, a unique and recognizable graphic style. He then deployed his identity in illustrations, with his series of animals "GRAFFAUNE" contraction of graffiti and fauna, with geometric and colorful looks. During his studies at Fine Arts, he was sensitized by the Russian constructivism movement which nourished his work over the years. This inspired his second series which he called "CONSTRUCTION". In recent years, he has participated in many projects: murals, festivals, rehabilitations of Eco-neighborhoods, creation of shop windows for restaurants, shops, paintings for individuals and companies, paintings in schools, media libraries, paintings with social vocations in hospitals and specialized houses, partnerships with clothing brands, auctions, workshops.<br><br><br></div>

„Post fata resurgo”

Francisco Bosoletti

<div>”The casts show us the moment. They have such strength in telling us that precise moment that we can only feel intimidated in front of them. The void, almost as if it were a miracle, is filled through a simple technique to bring light to a piece of history, a soul, a body, a moment, or a life. Being able to see the exact moment of a normal day two thousand years ago is what makes Pompeii unique: on one hand, the objects and places show us the calm of everyday life, on the other hand, the tragedy, reflected in the victims, the casts.</div><div><br>&nbsp;My work is inspired by people, to bring to light, to feel part of what happened in 79 AD. A large cutout of a human figure, mixed with the colors of the wall, trying not to create a visual invasion. Different shades of gray, and transparency. As if it were yet to be discovered. With parts that recall the aesthetics of casts, and with parts of the body, of flesh.</div><div><br>&nbsp;My proposal is not to generate an intimidating artwork for passers-by but to make us reflect on that instant of all these people who have come back to light today and tell us the history. The work, painted in negative, takes much more strength to be looked at through a filter in the photographic camera of any smartphone, where light and shadows are reversed, and you "discover" the life behind the void.” – Bosoletti<br><br>Born and raised in Armstrong, a small village in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, Francisco Bosoletti is gifted with a clear and primal outlook on life, nature, and humanity. His art, which also bears the traits of a universal classicism, manifests itself in a similar way to the mixture of genes that nourishes the skin of migrants. He loves to represent the human figure and mostly uses rollers and brushes, working with a telescopic rod for his large-scale murals. His figurative style is classic, as is his painting technique, but hidden in the classic beauty of his murals there is always a hidden meaning and an unexpected pregnancy of meaning.</div><div><br>&nbsp;Bosoletti, whose work is particularly influenced by the Neapolitan Baroque and Florentine Renaissance art, has created numerous works all over the world. These include Isis, in the Spanish Quarters of Naples, inspired by the statue of Pudicitia in the Sansevero Chapel, Cuerdas in Minsk, Belarus, and Desencuentro, in Ghent on the occasion of the celebrations for the restoration of the polyptych of the mystical Lamb by Van Eick.</div><div><br>&nbsp;In Bonito, Irpinia, in 2018, Bosoletti created a masterpiece entitled Genesis: three works to be read as a single artistic project, linked to the theme of fire, the beginning of all things. The work was ranked third in the ranking of the most beautiful murals in the world drawn up by the prestigious international magazine Widewalls. The work was chosen from among 50 murals created around the world (Paris, Berlin, London, New York) by international artists (Banksy, Os Gemeos, Artez, and many others).</div>

“Attimo”

Marco De Rosa

<div>"This artwork commemorates one of the most recent findings at Pompeii's archaeological site, a turtle with its egg. A gradual moment of existence inscribed in history that, after many years, came to us full of significance. The discovered remains were of a land turtle, while mine is a sea turtle because of my connection with it. In a year when I, too, am expecting a child, I wanted to mark the passage of time this way. I utilised fluorescent paint, which lights some of the design features at night. I wanted to do something that appeared gradually." - Marco De Rosa&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Marco De Rosa is originally from the Amalfi coast. He graduated in Communication Design at the NABA Art and Design Academy in Milan and received a degree in Art Therapy at the Della Cittadella Pro Civitate Christiana School in Assisi, Perugia. Since 2002, he has worked in communication, first as a graphic designer and now as a copywriter, social media manager, and communication manager.&nbsp;</div><div>He enjoys developing his imagination in many formats using different means. For years he has worked with a variety of individuals, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, on projects with municipalities and schools, conducting artistic workshops aimed at enhancing aspects of socialisation, in collaboration with professors, educators, psychologists, and others. He also writes comical short stories.&nbsp;</div>

“Ogni cosa a suo tempo”

Asur

<div>ASUR, born in Albufeira, Portugal, the city where he still resides today. He is the youngest of two brothers, the son of a carpenter and a seamstress. In 2007, at the age of 12, he began painting graffiti on the street, influenced by two schoolmates. Without any type of studies or training in the arts, he became a professional between 2014 and 2015 as an independent worker and artist. Techniques such as, sprays, acrylics, and digital drawing are the methods and skills that allow him to evolve as a graffiti/street-art and mural painting artist. Versatile at the base is the realism/photorealism spiced up with fluid lines and straight shapes, politics, social problems, and nature are today one of its inspirations.</div>

Kymo One

<div>„It's based on a painting showed in my latest expo "SANTO". It shows a boy trying to save a vase with flowers from a flood. A burden he chooses to carry while others would call him crazy for it. Nonetheless he accepts this self-imposed fate.” – Kymo One<br><br>Kymo One is a young Belgian artist with impressive artistic skills, he tells us that:<br><br></div><div>“As a young student, I spend an hour and a half a day traveling by train from my small hometown to the city of Ghent. These trips sparked my interest in graffiti. Soon after, all my savings and time were spent on spray paint and I took on the alias "KYMO ONE". When I finally continued my studies in graphic design, the visual language I saw here infiltrated my work, helping me create a more direct and more colorful style ”.<br><br></div>

”Burden”

Santa Gross

<div>This artwork was inspired by the western swamphen, also known as the "sultana bird," one of the only birds not consumed by the Romans, being regarded as a noble bird that was cared for and kept as a pet. The fire portrays both the destruction as well as the resurrection of the city following the eruption in 79 AD. The pearls in the bird's beak depicts a detail from an ancient mosaic discovered in Pompeii's House of the Faun. As an added detail, we can observe the necklace, which symbolises a link to the ancient missing “Musica”, an indigenous culture in Colombia, the artist's native country.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Julian Santamaria, known as Santa Gross, is a Colombian illustrator and street artist. He's been working on illustration and painting on the streets for over 7 years. He has a distinctive style derived from the use of flat colors that create volumes enriched by contrasting shades and a halftone texture similar to screen printing which, combined with his illustration and compositional skills, achieves a particular style of muralism on large formats. Santa has created murals for both private commissions as well as well-known brands.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div>

“Ancient Bird from an Ancient Civilization”

LeHo

<div>”Civilization is a fragile thing, but life isn’t.<br>Inspired by The Ashes Dog and Lupa Capitolina.”</div><div><br>&nbsp;All the people and things encountered during my stay in Italy are very unforgettable experiences. Although it is difficult to describe in words, the most profound experience is the high appreciation and participation of Europeans in art. Different audiences have different ways to experience, and some will follow what I said what I saw and felt in the work. Some people gave us pizza, Limoncello, Espresso, and recruited fans would come to see us every day. Even if they didn't speak English, they would try to talk to you in their language. Or just random people that would just pass by will also say Grazie (thank you) to the artists that were creating their artworks. This trip allowed me to see the value of art again. The artists provided a different perspective on the world. When different perspectives are mixed with, the explosion is a way for us to create culture.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>&nbsp;Perhaps this land is not the source of street art culture, we habitually learn to imitate. But one day in the future, we will be able to seriously experience art and feel the artist's point of view, and not only regarding street art and murals as a source of social traffic. I believe we will create more meaningful and meaningful works.” – LeHo<br><br>LeHo is a contemporary artist born in Tainan, China. He currently resides in Taiwan. The word "LeHo" means "Hello" in Taiwanese; representing a vision of greeting all beings around the world by art. "A dream is how I describe my art, wishing it would cast light on even the most hopeless folks. Although throughout our world, frustration exists, I want to make people brighter when they see art." The subject matter of LeHo's mural works centers around animals being the carriers of information, depicting human emotions, stories and beliefs. These creatures enable their audience to read into the values and vibes through their various forms and brilliant colors. After years of searching, exploration, and participation in the realm of public art, LeHo's creature creations have become a unique symbol of vitality in the city. He has participated in the International Warriors Street Art Festival for three consecutive sessions, since 2017.</div>

”Recall & Afresh”

Mr. Kas

<div>„Inspired by a sculpture created by Igor Mitoraj that was sfcsfsexposed in the ancient city of Pompei.” – Mr.Kas<br><br>MrKas was born in Porto Portugal. His passion for art began at a young age with his father, also a painter, who had a big influence on him throughout his childhood. MrKas started painting graffiti in the streets of Porto in 1999 when he found a full spray can lying in the street and decided to tag everywhere until he got home. In 2010 he moved to Spain and in the following years, he lived between Belgium and the United Kingdom. Since those early street days, his work can be seen in murals, canvas, museums, and exhibitions all around the world. His main inspiration is people. People and their feelings, their lives, their stories, their circumstances. Therefore traveling plays a big role for him. Visually he likes the idea of deconstructing an image and turning it into something unique, creating 3D effects, abstract patterns, or anamorphic shapes all in a photorealistic technique.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br></div>

„Leave no stone unturned”

Nemo

<div>The artwork touches on the contemporary theme of women reduced to slavery or victims of abuse, who try to oppose their own destiny ... The text "nemo tibi amat" is painted on the blanket that surrounds the striking whore. hand your life and be master of your destiny because "nobody loves you".<br><br></div>

“Nemo Tibi Amat “

Gianpiero D'alessandro

<div>”This artwork is a reinterpretation of the catastrophic eruption of 79 AD. Naples is well known all over the world: Pizza and Vesuvius. Here they are together in this work.” –G.P<br><br>Born in Sant’Anastasia, a small town in the south of Italy, Gianpiero D’Alessandro is a writer, graphic designer, and painter. His passion for art started in his childhood, fascinated by the story of Walt Disney and Andy Warhol, he started drawing at 16 when he made his fellow citizens into comic book characters. Throughout his career, he had collaborations with celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, Clementino, Cristiano Ronaldo, and brands like Nike, Netflix, and Levis.</div>

”Vesuvius Pizza”

Sergei Cordeiro

Sé Cordeiro

<div>For Pompei Street Festival</div><div>"The reading dive" seeks to translate the feeling of being captured by an excellent book, where dream, fantasy, and reality collide without being able to interrupt the reading. There is a reference to the character immersed in literature and oblivious to what is going on around her. The bird represents the unawareness, in this case of the Pompeians, who were about to succumb to the eruption. More than an exact explanation, this painting evokes varied perspectives and emotions in every pedestrian who looks at it, much to the artist's satisfaction!&nbsp;</div>

"The Reading Dive"

<div>"The opera is a tribute to everything that exists in Neapolitan culture and the musicality of the city of Castellammare di Stabia." – Feoflip<br><br>Feoflip is an artist born in the Canary Islands His story begins around the year 2000 when street painting did not receive any artistic recognition. He moved at night to make his pieces of him. Since then he has not stopped painting on the walls and always accompanied him by his black book. His work of art is a hybrid and mutation of science fiction, biomechanics, steampunk, dreamlike visions, and many times you can read an eternal debate between technology and nature, dehumanizing by new communication devices. Feofl!p continues to walk past the next wall, where each mural is a challenge, an investigation, and a story to tell.&nbsp;</div>

”Sin Nombre”

Ben Johnston

<div>This three-dimensional writing, which the Canadian artist made at the entrance to the modern city of Pompei, is his homage to one of the world's oldest and most famous cities.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Ben Johnston, born in Cape Town, South Africa, and now based in Toronto, Canada, is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who uses custom typography for his artworks, advertising, and public art and is constantly pushing himself beyond the limits of his field. In cities such as San Francisco, Hawaii, Serbia, and India, he created large-scale murals for corporate clients and non-profit organizations. His fine art pieces have been shown in international exhibitions, and he has spoken and painted live at numerous conferences. Whether he's painting a mural in a remote part of India or creating an animated piece for an NFT auction, he strives for a unique approach, drawing inspiration from his travels. He has also received numerous Type Directors Club awards and was named one of the 2019 TDC Ascenders.&nbsp;</div>

"Pompei"

Cosmos

<div>“Sirena” is an 8-meter mural representation of a mermaid, a symbol of the city or Castellammare, and also part of Greek and Roman mythology. The image is also a tribute to the erotic frescoes of the ancient Roman cities, those which, apart from being representative of the lifestyle of the Pompeian society, were also a rich part of the culture of the city. These frescoes were systematically allied, as opposed to the moral imposition of the Romans, first, and then of the Catholics during medieval times.<strong><br></strong><br></div><div>Andrea Luis Hernández was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain</div><div>Her work is the result of research, of herself, of a definitive style, etc. This operation concerns her nowadays multidisciplinary facet, working with different formats and techniques such as photography, painting, and sculpture. Although, her art career tends to be relocated onto the street and mural art with already successful mural interventions in the Canary Islands (Spain), Cologne (Germany), and Athens / Thessaloniki (Greece).</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Nowadays, the search for her style has led Andrea to work on the use of techniques related to high painting in the world of Street Art and Graffiti. Through a baroque or neoclassical aesthetic, images of contemporary day-to-day life are translated acquiring a renewed importance.</div><div>The urgent need to generate expectations around the small things of the day today is the main effort of the artist. The idealization of reality, the ability to generate a discourse based on literary magical realism supposes a way of life, a generation, that of the artist, who bases his/her perception of the real on unattainable conceptions, on a plastic and unrealizable perfection registered in social networks, television, and the graphic world.</div>

“Sirena”

Ledania

<div>”To put color into ash, giving a bit of latin american color to something that was colorless, getting reborn using art and colors. The charcaters of the mural are inspired from ancient roman statues, the birds are a representation of safetiness as one time someone told me a very interesting story about pigeons, if you are at sea and release a pigeon there are two outcomes, if the pigeon comes back it means it did not find soil but it if does not come back it means that it found soil and following it would asure that one has found shore. The overall meaning is the rebirth of nature through an explosion of colours.” - Ledania<br><br>Diana Ordoñez better known in the world of street art as LEDANIA is a graduate in visual arts and one of the most representative Colombian artists in the world. Her artwork based on her large-format mural has been printed around the world in Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan. She has painted in more than 22 countries and completed ten years of trajectory. Ledania's artwork has been recognized by important entities such as Curitiba Bienal of Arts, Expo Malaysia, Bozman University, Art Scape, and many other major achievements, as she was named one of the 100 national leaders on Latinoamérica for the magazine Gerente in 2008.<br><br><br></div>

„Color a la ceniza”

Kilia Llano

<div>”In 79 AD, the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii, leaving it covered in 20 feet of volcanic ash and stones, which kept it frozen in time until its discovery in the 19th century and where beautiful murals were found, among them the portrait of Terentius Neo and his wife.</div><div><br>&nbsp;This mural represents the past and the present of Pompeii, how it could be reborn from its past of ashes and fire, to become a city that looks to the future and that is reborn thanks to the people who inhabit it. Thank you Teresa Acanfora a resident of Pompei, for serving as a model to represent the present together with the past (my version of the portrait of that ancient fresco of Terentius's wife).” – Kilia Llano<br><br>Kilia is a fine artist, muralist, illustrator, and art teacher. She was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and studied Fine Arts and Illustration at Altos De Chavón School Of Design, also got a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Illustration at Parsons School Of Design, NY. She participated in several collective art shows, and also five solo shows in Santo Domingo, Barcelona, and Miami (Art Basel 2017). She has been working with other fellow artists doing urban art in the streets of several cities and small communities in the Dominican Republic since 2012, where she has done about 35 murals. She also has several murals across the USA, in Boston, Washington, Maryland, and Arlington. Recently she got awarded a scholarship to the SURP Art residency at the New York Academy of Art and another residency with the Urban Field Stations and the USA Forest Services to develop a mural project in the Dominican Republic, USA, and Canada.</div>

”Renasci”

Takir

<div>&nbsp;The water that floods Pompeii represents the lava that submerged it 2000 years ago with the eruption of 79 AD. The ruins visited by millions of tourists every year are a clear example of resilience, demonstrating that people's work, whether artistic or not, can withstand time and adversity. We human beings live a short passage in the physical world, but the achievements of civilization and creative expressions transcend time and teach us how to continually reinvent ourselves from a human, social and artistic point of view.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Takir is a French artist who received his bachelor's degree from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient and his master's degree from the University of Antioquia de Medellin in Colombia. He has been practicing graffiti and street art for over 10 years, acquiring a thorough perspective on this movement historically, socially, and artistically. Graffiti is a part of his creative practice, and it impacted his worldview and identity, influencing him to address the city's overall reality. He draws inspiration from cities, traveling, photography, and graffiti, all of which are essential to his work. He participated in various international graffiti and street art festivals in France and across the world, including Colombia, and Panama. In Brussels, he participated in the Pictopia and Cinema- nomada street art course.&nbsp;</div>

"Pompei City Vortex"

Soen Bravo

<div>“Amazed by the Roman crafts, with this still life, I try to represent the Resurrection from the amphorae, in different ways the anti-theft alarm represents the illegal, the transgressive, the corrupt, as well as a debate between what we consider moral or immoral. Plants show life and nature. Brushes represent art.” – Soen Bravo<br><br>César de Fernando Bravo, better known as Soen, is a Spanish artist. He studied art at the Artistic Baccalaureate at the School of Art number 3 in Madrid. From the year 2000, he became interested in graffiti, which he continues to practice although less frequently, but which gives him experience in the spray painting technique and broadens the field of artistic creation.&nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;Since then, there have been numerous artistic works that he has done in small and large formats, both indoors and outdoors, public and commercial establishments in Madrid, Spain, and other countries.</div>

“Rinascere”

<div>”Dream, despite illusions. Walk, despite obstacles. Fight, despite barriers and above all, believe in yourself like Roman warrior ! &nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;This is the description that I give to this work, inspired from the ancient roman time, a painting that has not wanted to escape the environment that lives in this land..." - Asur<br><br>Asur, born in Albufeira, Portugal, the city where he still resides today. He is the youngest of two brothers, the son of a carpenter and a seamstress. In 2007, at the age of 12, he began painting graffiti on the street, influenced by two schoolmates. Without any type of studies or training in the arts, he became a professional between 2014 and 2015 as an independent worker and artist. Techniques such as, sprays, acrylics, and digital drawing are the methods and skills that allow him to evolve as a graffiti/street-art and mural painting artist.</div><div><br>&nbsp;Versatile at the base is the realism/photorealism spiced up with fluid lines and straight shapes, politics, social problems, and nature are today one of its inspirations.</div><div><br><br></div>

"The Roman"

Bona Berlin

Bona_Berlin

<div>This mural portrays two faces with various local symbols of the past and present, such as the pasta, the wolf, and amphorae, in vivid colours, utilising a combination of expressionism, abstractionism, and cubism painting styles.&nbsp;</div><div>"I'd like to illustrate a colourful world in which we meet, eat together, live together, listen to and learn from each other while respecting the past in order to create a new future." – Bona Berlin&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Bona is her name, and she is from Berlin, Germany. She is a street artist who paints heads in a wide range of forms and colours, in diverse techniques, and on a variety of surfaces. Her work contains murals, paintings, and installations. Her main concentration is on one-of-a-kind faces that combine cubism, expressionism, and abstract techniques. Her paintings are as unique as each of us, emphasising diversity as an essential factor.&nbsp;</div>

“Growing together"

Oscar Brum

<div>This mural is a reproduction and update of a previous painting by the artist. It's a heart surrounded by blob-shaped figures who scream, laugh, writhe, dance, and even catch fire. It is an allegory for the purity of our hearts as well as the cosmic and universal truth that lies deep inside each of us. This notion directs both our individual and collective fate. According to ancient Mexican traditions, the heart is the purest and most holy thing we possess and, therefore, belongs to the gods.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Mexican self-taught artist Oscar Brum is currently based in Milan, Italy. His art is the result of a millenary cultural legacy combined with his travels across the world. He aspires to establish a conversation between old symbolisms and current dogmas while investigating the link between the artwork and the spectator as a means of reciprocal contact. As he investigates the profound cosmovision of pre-hispanic cultures of Mexico and Latin America, death and its fundamental role in existence is an important pillar in his creative inquiry. Oscar managed to expand his understanding of artistic production and experiment with unconventional methods, incorporating natural elements like water, light, and temperature, among others, and exploiting their effects on his pieces, transforming them into vivid interpretations of what he refers to as the "Great Universal Mysteries." Since 2015, he participated in various solo and group exhibits at galleries, libraries, fairs, and universities. He has won multiple honours, including "Best Artist" at the 15th edition of the Paratissima Contemporary Art Fair in Turin and the New Post Photography award.&nbsp;</div>

“Divine Light & The Sacred Guiding Fire”

Octofly

<div>The artist's starting idea is a female figure, taking inspiration from some frescoes of the ancient city and adapting them to her cartoon style. The concept is to blend history with modernity emphasizing the word "resilience" and its dictionary-styled definition. The smartphone shows the ability to immerse oneself in the search for the term and its definition.&nbsp;<br><br>Silvia Pezzotti, originally from Valle Camonica, is the art director of Octofly Art, a self-funded project that was started at the end of 2013. She has been drawing with pencils and markers since she was a child, and after a few years, she enrolled in the traditional art school "Decio Celeri" in Lovere, where she learned the fundamental skills and techniques required to join the "Santa Giulia" Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, where she graduated in Painting in 2014. In those years, she founded her brand and artistic identity. She uses cartoon-style graphics and shapes reminiscent of street art, with figures defined by wit and ingenuity, created using a variety of techniques with no boundaries. The smooth, inventive forms with an exquisite and happy appearance are the distinguishing elements of this art. Octofly Art combines a vital manual and artisan component of traditional origin while also incorporating new digital technologies.&nbsp;</div>

"Sostantivo femminile"

Yessiow

<div>„My work is inspired by Thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus. Thermopolium means hot shop or hot things. When in Roman times, merchants and craftsmen also held a high social status, reserved only to landowners in older times. Drinks and hot food were served in this place, as the name indicates, stored in large jars placed in the richly decorated masonry counter of the tavern. The Serpents in this mural were also inspired by some paintings that I found in the ancient city of Pompei. The serpent painting decorated household shrines, kitchens, shops, crossroads, and public temples in Pompeii. In these places, snakes are not scary or evil but quite the opposite. Snakes often accompanying the Lares, are also symbols of good fortune and guardian deities that protect their home, shop or temple.”&nbsp; – Yessiow<br><br>Yessiow is an illustrator and mural artist from Bali, Indonesia. She decided as a teenager that she wanted to study visual communication design to pursue her passion and dream. She is currently enjoying her new hobby, traveling. She’s been traveling and working at the same time since 2018. Her passion for drawing and art goes back to her childhood, she told us that she loved to draw as a child, to explore her ideas and imagination. Her work is heavily influenced by natural objects and bright colors around her. Currently, she has murals in Cambodia, Nepal, India, and Italy.</div><div><br>&nbsp;“My experience in murals are usually represented with eye-catching colors, playful elements, and influenced by natural objects and bright colors around me, considering I live in a tropical place, every day I see very blue skies, orange or purple sunsets, as well as, vibrant tropical plants such as coconuts and mango trees. I like to see my work in the public spaces, immersed in the activity of the people who go through or see it every day.” – Yessiow</div>

"The Thermopolium"

Joaquin Vila Juaki

Joaquin Vila

<div>The mural illustrates, in a poetic and personal manner, an analysis of the physical and emotional structure of the concept of a volcano, employing a scientific visual language but brought to the field of art. The artist uses a very distinct shade of blue paint, present in all of his works, to allude to the world of the invisible and the intangible in nature.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Joaquin Vila is a visual artist, muralist, and scientific illustrator from Madrid, Spain. He owns a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scenography Design from the European University of Madrid, a Postgraduate Diploma in Exhibition Design from Elisava in Barcelona, and obtained a Unesco scholarship for the Watermill Foundation in New York, and the MACBA, Barcelona's Contemporary Art Museum. His art depicts hybrid entities that are half human, half animal, or half plant. With these beings, he wants to conceptualize a debate between science, mythology, and imagination. They are non-material, reflecting life beyond the physical, the unseen. Blue indigo is his signature hue, which appears in all his artworks since he finds this shade of blue ideal for expressing the depth and the infinite. The lines and dots represent the vibration, energy, and electricity that passes through all living things and produce an optical appearance of delicate movement that is nearly imperceptible but present. His creative work is guided by a continuing examination of the relationship between the human being and the natural world, concentrating on studying natural processes of transformation, fusion, and symbiosis.&nbsp;</div>

“Anatomía de un volcán”

<div>French-born artist Christian Guémy, known as C215, is currently considered one of the best stencil artists around. He has been producing street art for about twenty years through paintings, drawings, and stencils, experimenting with surfaces of all sizes: from mailboxes to old abandoned doors to huge walls of buildings. He started using spray painting techniques in 2005 and his attention was focused on creating portraits of people: the elderly, children, refugees, beggars, that category of people we often forget to recognize in life.</div><div><br>&nbsp;His production was not limited solely to the marginalized and the unknown. In recent years C215 has made several interventions that recall missing journalists or figures of famous people from history, or even stencil representations of Renaissance art. Fascinated by the paintings of Caravaggio and Ernst Pignon, he tries to interact with the urban context by reflecting in his works the feelings that are hidden behind a glance.</div><div><br>&nbsp;C215 participated in the Au-delà du street art exhibition at the Musée de La Poste in Paris: his works were exhibited alongside those of Banksy, Invader, and Shepard Fairey.</div>

La 180

<div>"It is a contemporary reinterpretation of the figure of the Madonna of the city of Castellammare. The message he wants to convey is that today the value of hospitality and solidarity towards those suffering from wars and famines, such as the peoples of Africa and the Middle East, is fundamental for Christians and the cult of devotion to Our Lady. . " - La 180<br><br>Resp aka La180 was born in Salerno, Italy where he lives and works. Already in the 90s, he began to take an interest in graffiti, starting the research that led him to develop his peculiar style. After his diploma, he moved first to Padua and then to Rome, where he studied Psychology. In both cities he met several artists of the Italian writing scene, thus undergoing influences that led him to evolve and improve his techniques and style. In 1999, with three other artists known as “Coca”, “Murak” and “Traqu”, he started the group “La 180”. Several publications of his graffiti appeared in magazines such as “Paper Experience” of Ancona, the Milanese “Tribe” and the French “Explicit graphics”. In the series of paintings Contaminations, inspired by the movement of raves and techno music, the artist questioned the degradation of industrial and suburban areas and the impact of environmental pollution on nature, he created the character known as “Saiborg”, a super writer that fights against the contradictions of modern society and he also experimented in the graphic and pictorial field.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

„La Madonna dei Rifugiati”

Gomad

<div>&nbsp;This mural portrays a young woman in grief after her lover was killed in a violent altercation. The girl glances up towards the sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of him in paradise. The cardinal bird, which symbolises the beloved, informs us that he will live on in the hearts of those who love him. Flowers provide comfort because they allow us to communicate with the departed without words. The rose in her hair, in particular, is a symbol of love and transience. The piece is a tribute to Raffaele Cesarano, a victim of absurd group violence.&nbsp;<br><br>Marcus Debie, better known as GOMAD, is a colorblind Dutch artist. He was born in the city of Sittard in the south of Holland in 1972, where he currently lives and works. GOMAD began his creative career in the early 1980s in the Southern Dutch graffiti scene, heavily influenced by the legendary films ‘Beat Street' and 'Style Wars.' So much so that he is regarded as a pioneer in that region. His art is described as the apex of post-neo cubism. He combines oil paint, acrylics, and sprays in a colorful manner to create compositions that fuse photorealistic pictures in a mind-bending surrealistic setup against cubistic and organic shapes. He presently works as an international urban fine artist and muralist, creating murals and paintings for shows around the world.&nbsp;</div>

"Guarda il cielo minaccioso"

KOKON

<div>"Resilient" is a circular design with symmetrical patterns similar to a mandala, taking advantage of the opportunity to express a striking contrast provided by the omnipresent duality of life and death. Mandalas are spiritual and religious symbols that depicts the universe. The representation of this coloured artwork on the grey and worn background of the wall, which has been left in its condition of decay, intends to convey the idea of life triumphing over death, resulting in rebirth under difficult and chaotic circumstances.&nbsp;<br><br>Self-taught artist and muralist Daniel Ephraim, better known as KOKON - "Keep on Keeping ON", was born in 1987 in Olivos, Argentina. He has created a DIY creative career by painting, muralizing, and intervening in common objects with unique colours and designs. Depending on the geological location of the mural, he likes to focus on the local fauna depicting nature and botany. He also investigates and develops his technique in the domains of geometry and mandala, curious about how these two subjects interact. The colour combinations and contrast they produce with the curves and details of the pieces of the work stand out via acrylic painting, which is usually done with a brush, giving them depth.&nbsp;</div>

“Resilient”

Pandele

<div>This artwork is an illustration of the bronze sculpture "Dancing Faun" discovered in the 19th century Pompeii excavations, with the difference that it is presented in a new type of material similar to a crystal prism, which refracts light and creates colour, symbolising the rebirth of archaeological sites after they have been unearthed.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Pandele Radu was born in 1993 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a member of the Romanian artist group Sweet Damage. His formal training in the arts began at a high school in Arad and proceeded to universities in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Grenoble, France. His career as a graffiti writer started in 2007 and has been working as a muralist since 2015. Pandele is equally passionate and involved in gallery art, with several solo and group shows. He is not explicitly concerned with sociopolitical statements. His imagination is motivated by poetry to depict an ideal parallel universe. His murals may be seen in many Romanian and European cities, including Berlin, Germany; Monte Gordo, Portugal; Bialystok, Poland; Grenoble and Briancon, France.&nbsp;</div>

"Dancing Faun"

MAN.De

@artist_man.de

<div>&nbsp;"Today, we are more disconnected from our natural world than ever before. Through my artworks, I want to highlight the important relationship between nature and humans by painting local flora in an urban setting. We need to remember our role as custodians of the environment and protect what is left for future generations to come." - MAN.De&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div><div>Based in the Blue Mountains, Australia, MAN.De is a multidisciplinary artist that works in the fields of urban art, photography, and community art. Her work includes large-scale murals and stencil artworks as well as installations and smaller-scale pieces on canvas and other materials. Under the alias MAN.De, she has participated in street art initiatives in Australia, Germany, Singapore, and South Africa. Her artwork focuses on the local fauna of the locations that she paints in order to emphasize the connection between nature and humanity.&nbsp;</div>

“Ancient Obsession”

<div>&nbsp;“The mural is inspired by the craters (vases) found in the excavations of Stabia on which stories, legends, and scenes of everyday life were depicted. The work also linked the sensations of my experience during the pandemic to the crater, all enclosed in a vase to rediscover inner beauty. “– Yessiow&nbsp;<br><br>Yessiow is an illustrator and mural artist from Bali, Indonesia. She decided as a teenager that she wanted to study visual communication design to pursue her passion and dream. Her passion for drawing and art goes back to her childhood, she told us that she loved to draw as a child, to explore her ideas and imagination. Her work is heavily influenced by natural objects and bright colors around her. Currently, she has murals in Cambodia, Nepal, India, and Italy. She is currently enjoying her new hobby, traveling. She’s been traveling and working at the same time since 2018.<br><br></div><div>“My experience in murals are usually represented with eye-catching colors, playful elements, and influenced by natural objects and bright colors around me, considering I live in a tropical place, every day I see very blue skies, orange or purple sunsets, as well as, vibrant tropical plants such as coconuts and mango trees. I like to see my work in the public spaces, immersed in the activity of the people who go through or see it every day.” – Yessiow<br><br></div>

"Cratere"

Castellammare di Stabia

Napoli

Giffoni Valle Piana

Vitulano

Bonito

Lioni

<div>A route that includes the murals created during the first edition of Pompei Street Festival first and second edition.</div>

Pompei Street Festival Murals

<div>Murals from the first edition of Stabiae Street.</div>

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