Yessiow

<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"

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”

Feoflip

<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”

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 “

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”

<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”

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”

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”

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”

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>

Untitled

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”

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”

C215

<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>

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

<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"

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”

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”

<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"

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”

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”

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”

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>

<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"

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”

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”

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”

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”

<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"

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”

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>

Artworks in Pompei