DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

• group created in 2004 by Wally and Alita (born en 1976 et 1975)

DEGREES

• Artistic direction in communication and advertising (Istituto superiore di Comunicazione [ISC/IED])

THEMES / INSPIRATIONS / INFLUENCES

• Street Art / Stencil

TECHNIQUES

• stencil
• spolvero (technique used during the Renaissance and used in Urban Art, Transfer of the preparatory drawing onto the support of the pictural composition)
• spray paint

FAVORITE PUBLIC PLACES

• urban spaces in a large term

GALLERIES / EXHIBITIONS

• Dirty life, traffic gallery, Bergame, Italie, 2013
• Eternity, ego gallery, Lugano, Suisse, 2012
• New works, galerie itinerrance, Paris, France, 2012
• Ortiche, traffic gallery, Bergame, Italie, 2009

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• Ciminiera Branca, curated by Jacopo Perfetti, Distillerie Fernet-Branca, Milan (55 x 15 m. high, highest mural in Italy up to this date)
• Via Crucis, in collaboration with Mr Caos, Chiesa della Pieve, Milan (San Donato)
• Ritratto Andrea Pazienza, curated by P. Cucchiaro, San Benedetto del Tronto (22 x 10 m. high), 2015
• LOVE, among the Lecco Street View exbiition, curated by Chiara Canali, Lecco (8x 13 m.), 2015
• Il Giro d’Italia, in collaboration with Liceo Artistico Giordano Bruno, Albenga, (3 x 50 m.), 2015
• Il Ponte della Memoria, in collaboration with Nuovo Liceo Artistico e Scout CNGEI (600 m2), Milan, 2015
• Wall Art, Piazza Cardinal Ferrari, curated by Mara Taverriti and Alice Cosmai and Esterno G. Pini, Milan (4 x 150 m., longest mural in Milan), 2014
• Open the Cages, mural in the WWF office during BreArt, Milan (180 m2), 2014
• Djerbahood, Djerba, Tunisia, 2014
• portrait of Roberto Roversi, Cheap Festival, Bologna, Italy, 2014 (14 x 7 m.)
• Libya meets Europe, by IIC Istituto Italiano della Cultura – Italian Emabssy of Tripoli, presso Academy of fine Art, Misurata, Lybia, 2014
• portrait of Joseph Beuys, by Pretty Portal, Düsseldorf, Allemagne, 2013 (12 x 8 m.)
• portrait of Frida Kahlo in collaboration with LABA Brescia a San giorgio di Mantova Italie, 2013 (30 x 3 m.)
• portrait of Francesca Rolla, curated by EXP, Carrare, Italie, 2013 (18 x 15 m.)
• portrait of Renato Guttuso, curated by Mr Gargiulo & Stagnitta, Giardini Naxos, Catania, Italy, 2013 (10 x 6 m.)
• portrait of Gilberto Gil, curated by M. Teobaldo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2012 (13 x 8 m.)
• portraits Médecine Nobel Price, in collaboration with l’institut d’Arte G. Romano presso Ospedale C., Poma a Mantova, Italy, 2012 (75 x 2,5 m.)
• portrait of Clooney/Canalis, curated by V. Donnarumma, Dicastero Giovani ed Event, Lugano, Switzerland, 2010 (15 x 5 m.)
• Stencil Art, curated by l’Associazione Toniolo, Piazza delle erbe, Verone, Italy, 2010

MUSICAL ENVIRONMENT

• Greenday (1987 – )
• Pink Floyd (1965 – )
• Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970)
• Guns N’ Roses (1985 – )
• Led Zeppelin (1968 – )
• Metallica (1981 – )
• Iron Maiden (1975 – )
• Dropkick Murphys (1996 -)
• Alestorm (2004 – )
• AC/DC (1973 – )
• Soad (1994 – )
• Queen (1970 – )
• Beatles (1960 – 1970)
• Rolling Stones (1962 – )
• Deep purple (1968 – )

ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT

• Le Caravage (1571 – 1610)
• René Magritte (1898 – 1967)
• Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
• Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918)
• Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
• Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954)
• Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992)
• Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954)
• Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957)
• Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
• Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956)
• Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968)
• Emilio Vedova (1919 – 2006)
• Pol Burri (1915 – 1995)

LITERARY ENVIRONMENT

• William Burroughs (1914 – 1997)
• Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994)
• Chuck Palahniuk (1962 – )
• David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2008)
• Nicolai Lilin (1980 – )
• Roberto Saviano (1979 – )
• Konrad Lorenz (1903 – 1989)

CINEMATOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT

• Quentin Tarantino (1963 – )
• David Cronenberg (1943 – )
• David Lynch (1946 – )
• Federico Fellini (1920 – 1993)
• Dennis Hopper (1936 – 2010)
• Lars Von Trier (1956 – )
• Terry Gilliam (1940 – )