Marco Burresi, better known as Zed1, is a street artist born in the province of Florence who enriches the world with his murals with an unmistakable touch. Through a constant and varied development of his technique, Zed1’s style evolves consequently due to his activities as a writer, which leads him to paint walls and surfaces of all kinds. Puppets, elves, clowns, mermaids and other imaginary characters that form the base of his works and give life to creations in the twilight between the dreamlike and the surreal, in a dreamy and sometimes melancholic atmosphere.

 The Work:

Zed1 pays homage to the city of Livorno representing a bottled mermaid holding a narwhal in her hand symbolizing a corkscrew. The bottle is a clear historical reference to messages sent by sailors in ancient times. The deeper meaning of the work incites the observer to free himself from preconceptions and patterns in which we live: in fact the mermaid, whose head is still enclosed in the bottle, to be really free and let her ideas flow into the sea, she is forced to open the cork. 

The fact that she still remains trapped without being able to get out, indicates that it is precisely her thoughts itself that are not yet free.

 The mural, carried out from the 1st till the 12th of July 2019, was possible thanks to the contribution and active participation of the citizens of Livorno and thanks to the support of MuraLi’s project partners:

 Venpa GV3 – Sikkens Italia - NonSoloBagno - Comune di Livorno - Quartieri Uniti