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Scorched.  Damaged.  Bitten.  Wounded.  Undermined.  Abused.  Falling, falling… fallen?  JDL Street Art once again grips us where it hurts the most, mirroring our freefall into a manmade darkness that can only last while we willingly give in and give out, while we willingly surrender to the dive and accelerate the fall.  Falling, but not yet …

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Human beings, it might be conjectured, are likely to forget about the great works of art barricaded in museums big and small, when the human beings are not standing before great works of art on a daily basis. Museum attendance is usually open to the public for most of the time: however the most enabled …

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Residents of Rome’s east side are in for a real treat – Italian artist, Blu, well-known for his epic-sized and politically charged murals, has been busy painting a brand new wall in the city’s Quarticciolo neighborhood. His subjects? Statues of the Venus de Milo and Michelangelo’s David.   Blu’s latest work depicts a modern day …

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British artist My Dog Sighs wrapped up his trip to Rome, leaving behind him 540 of his iconic eyes scattered on an old hospital wall in the Trastevere district.  This mural kicked off the second edition of the Forgotten Project. About The Mural Titled “I still remember how it was before“, My Dog Sighs’ latest work was …

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Italian artist Andrea Ravo Mattoni painted a new Caravaggio masterpiece in the Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Italy, as part of his project “The recovery of classicism in the contemporary”. About The Mural Latest Caravaggio masterpiece painted by Andrea Ravo Mattoni is in Rome. The artist spent a week in the amazing Italian city to …

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Gomez in Zarzis

Venezuelan born artist, based in Rome, GÔMEZ aka Luis Gomez de Teran was invited to Zarzis, Tunisia, to paint the Fishing Museum as part of the project of cooperation between Italy and Tunisia for the development of the local fishing. A Brief History On Zarzis Zarzis is a small town on the Mediterranean Sea, where everything is slow …

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Pixelpancho was born in 1984 in Turin, where his grandfather, an amateur painter, introduced him to colour and form. Pixelpancho’s passion for art and design led him to enrol in the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain, where he majored. During this period …

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Frederico Draw’s mural tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini. By Forgotten Project ‘I was pretty tense about this mural’ he said ‘You know, portraying someone like Pasolini… and, moreover, in a location like this one’ he added, pointing to the ruins of the Mira Lanza factory in the beautiful, post-industrial yard of Teatro India. This is the first …

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Gomez was born in Caracas, Venezuela but grew up in Rome, Italy. He began at an early age dabbling in street art, with the first tags in the suburbs of the Italian capital. After experimenting with oil on canvas, Gomez went back to walls, with huge murals whose themes predominantly stemed from classic mythology and …

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ETAM CRU ” Coffee Break” ROMA 2014 at Galleria VARSI The Blind Eye Factory Etam Cru are currently in Rome for their first solo show BEDTIME STORIES in Italy, that opened on October 30th at La Galleria VARSI. The show is curated by Marta Gargiulo, and will go on until December 28, 2014. During their stay …

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Gonzalo Borondo was born in Spain 1989. He grew up in Segovia where his mother let him paint the hallway of his house and his father spent his life restoring Christs and Holy Maries. In 2003 he moves to Madrid where he strengthens his relationship with Graffiti. Some years after he starts visiting the studio …

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