From the Cure underpass,
we see another work that we could call Stay Tuned! A snake-king with a crown
suddenly emerges from the wall and throws himself at an apparently unsuspecting
mouse.
The burning eyes are the
signature of the author, Ninjaz, very active in Florence, part of the...
This fun work from the Cure
Underpass seems to be a self-portrait. The pencil brandished nervously and the
tongue tightened between the lips, like when one busy doing something that requires precision and attention and tenses up, just like this writer
at work drawing.
The mural is very large,
the...
Festival dei Diritti is
an annual event, born in Florence in 2017 and managed by the Municipality of
Florence together with social and cultural organizations and associations. It
offers a rich program of workshops, films, musical events, sporting moments and
debates, all initiatives that must serve to give information and...
The history of this
district north of the center has always been linked in some way to art. Legend
has it that in 1520, when here there was only countryside crossed by the
Mugnone stream, the Madonna appeared to two seriously ill patients who were
praying in front of one...
We are in Porta Romana, south of Florence, where
the fourteenth-century walls are still standing, surviving the urban
restructuring by Giuseppe Poggi in 1865. After the monumental door, a small
square opens up, called Piazza della
Calza. The name derives from the church and the convent that overlook the
square....
This time it is difficult
to guess the meaning of this work. Against a starry sky and galactic clouds,
the composition seems to develop from right to left with three figures. The
first is an alien, clearly the owner of the flying saucer from which a strange
character with big...
Another work from the Cure underpass - one of the main Florentine galleries of creative
"vandalization" - caught our attention: signed by Skino, its title is
"Alien flower and mad dog".
The flower seems to influence
the dog with its waves of “alien energy, making him crazy, almost as if...
Street Art also includes
graffiti or writing, that is, the signatures that street artists invent with
the utmost chromatic and graphic creativity and try to place in as many places
as possible. On the walls, on the train sides, on the bridges pillars, etc. A
desire or need to be...
Street art is generally
characterized by bright colors, but some artists prefer to use black and white,
often for works of a more emotional nature.
This is the case with
these two portraits of elderly men, whose intense gazes convey sadness and a
sense of loneliness in the observer.
...
Summer 2019. Antella, an ancient village of 3000 inhabitants
a few kilometers from Florence. A middle school named
after Francesco Redi (1626 -1697), Tuscan scientist considered the founder of
experimental biology. One morning the town wakes up to find the walls of this school vandalized, smeared with
vulgar drawings and...
The elephant is a subject that is rarely found in Florence, Florentine writers
generally prefer to depict aquatic creatures, monkeys, snakes, insects and hybrids. This is a work that comes form that street art open-air museum that is the Varlungo Viaduct. The skillful play of light and shadow gives three-dimentionality...
This mural refers to a tragic
story of our day. Orso, i.e. Lorenzo Orsetti (1986 - 2019) was a Florentine boy
who died on March 18, 2019 in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, in northern Syria (Rojava),
where he had gone to fight against ISIS, together with the Kurdish militia
Popular Protection Unit...
We're at a bus stop in a suburb of Florence, very far from the center.
But it's not just any neighborhood, it's Sorgane. A large suburb of public
housing built between 1962 and 1968 by the most famous Tuscan architects of the
twentieth century: Giovanni Michelucci, Leonardo Ricci, Leonardo Savioli...
A strange pair of companions on the railroad wall in
viale Corsica.
On the one hand, we have what looks like a strange and menacing walrus, with huge
eyebrows, which could also be wings, and a cigarette in his mouth that draws a
monster of smoke in the air.
On...
Another large-scale work from the Varlungo Viaduct, which occupies an
entire pylon of the bridge. The mural would appear to be a writing or an elaborated tag (a
signature), a type of work that actually makes up the majority of
graffiti and Street Art in general. Made with airbrushing and...
This large artwork, signed The Typers, represents a strip of the famous Italian
satirical comics, Sturmtruppen.
Created by Franco Bonvicini (Bonvi) in 1968, the comics was published until 1994, year of the author's death following a car accident: while crossing the street, Bonvi was hit by a car conducted by...
Those who were children in the 90s will certainly remember the cartoon
series called Dragon Ball, taken from the manga of the same name in 1884, by
Akira Toriyama. These imagese painted under the Varlungo Viaduct are inspired
by the protagonist of this manga, Son Goku. In the manga, just...
This is the second large mural by Jorit in Florence, after the one
dedicated to Nelson Mandela in Piazza Leopoldo (see our blog). Ciro Cerullo,
aka Jorit, is now known all over the world, with his realistic style and a strong
social commitment. He always represents portraits, the most famous...
In Florence,
one of the most important places dedicated to Street Art is the underpass of
the Florence-Rome railway, which connects the center with Le Cure district. A kind of museum that is in continuous
transformation, worth a visit for lovers of murals who come to Florence.
Of the vast...
On 10 December 2020 the Tuscany Region inaugurated the 24th Edition
of the Human Rights Meeting, entitled Peace, justice and solid institutions. This date recalls the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly
on December 10, 1948. Of course this year, given Covid-19, the ceremony...
A very long wall along the railway, entirely painted with tags, writers' signatures, many extremely complex and imaginative. Few
figures emerge from the chromatic interweaving of the tags, two are particularly interesting.The first is a blue angel. He is represented as a beardless
young man with long hair, half naked,...
The San Donato Park, on the northern outskirts of
the city, also houses a large underground car park. Here, the
Municipality of Florence in accord with the District Council 5, decided to have important and
well-known writers paint high quality murals on
the maintenance and aeration sheds. Two were
inaugurated...
Another work by Andrea Sergio, known as Mr Wany, painted in 2017 on the wall of the Mazzoni
Elementary School in via Enrico Mayer, as part of the program of the
City Council of Florence to promote Street Art among the very young. Unlike the
previous one, The Metal Girl,...
Here is a large and spectacular “fresco”
from the Varlungo Viaduct, measuring at least 10 x 3 meters. The subject is
clearly the sea with its creatures, the sea polluted by humans and their waste.
Four large figures are presented swimming in their element: an octopus, a
shark, a sea...
This is the first artwork we present of a series from viale
Corsica, a street in the northern suburbs of Florence. The road ends at the
railway and a very long wall is occupied by Street Art, a kind of open-air art
gallery. Part of the area is fenced, it...
By the writer
Valera 2021, various works on the same subject. Two in Le Cure underpass,
another on Ponte Giovanni da Verrazzano. The first of Le Cure represents a
handshake between a blue and a yellow-brown hand. A symbol of
peace and friendship. The subject of the second is a...
This insectoid comes from the open air gallery of Viale
Corsica. It is very
similar to the figures from Piazza Leopoldo, Viale Lavagnini and Ponte Giovanni
da Verrazzano and might be by the same author, or group of artists or from the
same "bottega", as in the Renaissance.
In the...
Here we have other insectoids, similar to the ones we have
already seen in previously. They could be
by the same author, even if this is not supported by the signatures. The new
ones are in two different parts of the city, very far from each other: in
Piazza Leopoldo...
These artworks are located in a pedestrian underpass on Viale
Lavagnini, a classic place for writers.
The walls of underpasses are usually mainly covered with tags, but also with figurative
works. This type of Street Art is sometimes defined as "creative vandalization", it is
tolerated and some underpasses become museums...
Everyone
knows Mickey Mouse, the very famous
cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Mickey Mouse and his companions: Minnie Mouse the girlfriend, Morty and Ferdie the grandchildren, Goofy
the best friend, Pluto the faithful
dog, and then Peg Leg Pete, Chief Seamus O'Hara, Detective Casey,...
This artwork, unfortunately “vandalized”,
can be considered a caricature as it represents a human face, exaggerating some
physiognomic features and producing a satirical and humorous effect. Born in the 1700s and immediately used for political purposes, caricature is a form of art akin to portraiture, cartoon, comics and illustration. The...
Everyone
remembers E.T., the extraterrestrial created by the American director Steven
Spielberg in 1982. This drawing stuck on the wood of a door seems to us very
timely. We can imagine that E.T. is back and wants to find the nice children
who saved him and helped him to go...
On the walls of Florence you can often see discolored paintings dating back
to a distant era, circles with a black border with writings, arrows and letters
in the center. They are the signage for the anti-aircraft protection created during World War II, signaling the population the presence of anti-aircraft...
A new "authorized" mural of
great quality in via Rocca Tedalda on a 6-storey building in the "case
minime" of Rovezzano. This mural was commissioned to Basik and
Run, two important Street Art artists, by Casa SPA, the company of
the municipalities of the Florentine area that manages all the public housing,...
Mr WANY - Street Art in Florence, the city of art,
where even the walls become canvases.In October 2016, the City Council of Florence
together with the District Councils decided to lift the ban on free Street Art
and to promote "regulated" forms of it, recognizing the role of this...
The writing on the wall refers to the game
of "hide and seek", played
by children around the world. The way we play it in Italy is this: a player
closes his eyes turned towards the wall - we call this "tana" meaning "lair" - and counts up to a...
The
pig is not one of the animals Florentine street artists prefer, but Lokote
(this is the author’s signature) offers us an unhappy blue pig with 4 eyes. Why
4 eyes and so much sadness? 4 eyes to cry twice as much? It might be that
Lokote is a vegetarian...
The
girl has a goat or ibex skull on her head, her eye makeup unmade (may be she was
crying), She holds the end of a thread between her fingers that seems to
support the goat's head. It is possible that the drawing, which is done on an
adhesive sheet...
The animals most loved by street artists
in Florence are fish or sea creatures. In second place we certainly find
monkeys, playful and festive or threatening and aggressive. But fish, despite
the attempts to humanize them, are distant and different beings.The remarkable
resemblance of monkeys to men makes them particularly...
Street artists, at least in Florence, love fish
and sea creatures. You can find many, perhaps it comes from the very
suggestive idea that they "swim" in concrete. The magical sensation
of the liquid world, without sound and gravity. For the Babylonians, men-fish were very
important; called Apkallu, they were...
There is also a "legal" street art not
ephemeral, but made to last, financed by sponsors and institutions. Also in
Florence there are such artwoks, like the mural dedicated to Nelson Mandela in
Piazza Leopoldo, created by Jorit Ciro Cerullo, a Neapolitan artist, now
an internationally renowned artist, who started...
This
work belongs to a particular category of Street Art, close to Sticker Art. The
image, certainly made with the help of a computer, is printed on adhesive paper
then glued to the wall. The meaning is enigmatic and open to the most varied
interpretations, the references, which certainly exist,...
In
these dark times of pandemic Goofy, the funniest Walt Disney character, loved
by all children and adults, greets us with a large and high quality fresco:
Goofy, Mickey Mouse’s faithful friend (actually, he is a dog).
Goofy,
in Italian Pippo, short for Filippo, is the opposite of the super-rational...
Here we see a mural with a strong effect
and large dimensions, fresh paint and very current, dated 2020: the Covid-19
represented as a scary slobbering monster, in his hand a can of poison to
spread disease and death.
You read at the base of the wall: pandemic
underway! face...
Fantastic
this work, certainly dating back to the lockdown in March and unfortunately already
in an advanced stage of deterioration. Protagonist Dante Alighieri,
acknowledged father of Italian literature and language, author of the “Divine
Comedy”, dressed as always in red and crowned with laurel. Arrested as caught
without a mask...
This
striking and apocalyptic picture explicity depicts vanity, lust for money and
war. Vices and horrors afflicting humanity, represented as divinities, with a
halo, on a sort of altar, the names preceded by an S. indicating Sancta /
Sanctum (saint).
A
triptych of confused symbologies, but of no questionable meaning....
This impressive figure of an archer baby-girl
riding a giant spider, a very detailed and impacting image, leads us in a
revisited mythology, in a fantasy world, perhaps referring to some comic or
saga we are not able to identify. Who will be hit by her arrow? Via dei Maccheroni, Florence.
Also this work, like the Dinosaur with a Cap, is
located on the external walls of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the
University of Florence, along with other important works. The bee, a nice
animal and a symbol of industriousness and organization, suggests a positive
and constructive message,...
This tyrannosaurus is located on an external wall
of the University of Florence, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. What is
the message? An obsolete and aggressive culture? But why green? Via degli
Alfani, Florence.
It is not in Florence, but it is special and worthy of mention. On the entrance of a Casa del Popolo,
bombers dropping bombs were not in the original and have been added to clarify the events, in case of
misunderstanding. Picasso was not clear enough. Ortonovo, Massa Carrara.
Here
we see flowers growing from a little girl's head. The crowd cheers, almost
venerates her. Is innocence true creativity? Via Bufalini, Florence.
On
the ancient palaces of Florence you can still see the iron rings where the
horses were attached. Little men could dangle down attached to a ring ... Via
de' Pucci, Florence.
We don't know much about the real identity of the artist whose exibition inaugurated yesterday at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, except that he started his activity as a street artist in Bristol around 1990 and he goes under the name of Bansky. Rings a bell?
Someone has speculated he is actually...
