one thing southern italians are famous for is their improvisation skills. there are no job opportunities for youngsters and if you dont want to work your ass in the countryside - which weirdly looks uncool these days - and you dont feel like going north to find a shitty job, you have to be creative [...]
bastardilla is an extremely talented artist coming from Bogota, Colombia.
she’s been working hard here keeping her aesthetic and humor intact even under a very stressed atmosphere. we’ll be opening the group show in town in less then a month and she have been cheering us up a lot making it easier everyday.
i wanted to do [...]
our british friend Word To Mother spent 7 hot days in town, as soon as he got here a very sweet old man agreed on letting him paint the side of his house
him and his wife were on their 70s’ and they were both beautiful and sweet. it was a breath of fresh air to hang [...]
while three critically “egoed” artists pulled out from the festival saying that they were “busy” i’ve had the pleasure to host for the third year in a roll the sweetest Lucy Mclauchlan ever
she did three walls, this huge one was in a weird spot, the road was bloked off and we had to fuck with [...]
while Lucy Mclauchlan and Erica il Cane are in town studying their walls i took one minute off to publish this lovely video by MOMO
Travelouge from MOMO on Vimeo.
and some more pictures from Os Gemeos’ muñecos invasion
this last one scared the owner of the place but makes everybody else smile
i’ll come back soon with [...]
today is definitely one of those days where running a blog is a real issue, i’m here to show you what sam3 did in the last two weeks and i’m supposed to do it in english, which is very far from being my mother tongue. my approach to english is as cerebral as mathematics is. [...]
king momo did 12 days of crazyness at FAME festival. he did five walls!
i’ve been in love with his work since the very same moment i came to know about it and even if i knew it was going to be very different from the usual FAME figurative aesthetic i’ve never had any doubts: he [...]
i swear i did not want to be boring this time, i swear, but i have a story now and i find it really hard not to tell you about it…
so…
the brazilian artist Nunca was painting this big dude on a facade downtown,
it was really hot, with peaks of 35° (celsius) and the [...]
one of the main cultivations here in Grottaglie is Olives, there are thousands beautiful threes in the fields and some of them are more then a hundred years old
one of the main shapes of our ceramic tradition is the ivory dish, the artisans of the ceramic district handcut little sponges to sop em up in [...]
well well well, many things happened in the past two weeks, i’m going to show you their kinda unexpected happy ending…
the brasilians came here and did a lot of pieces around the city, these are just part of them, you’re more then welcome to come and see the rest in person down here!
the twins improvised [...]
