Filippo Minelli
From Filippo’s website:
Filippo Minelli, born in Brescia-Italy in 1983 is a conceptual-artist with a graffiti-background who dedicated the last 10 years to urban communication, in the direction of the first steps of the international street-art movement, becoming a pioneer for Italy. The beginning of Minelli’s production is almost spontaneous, he is the Steinbech boy who wants to leave a trace of his existence. Not only words, sentences, searched and wanted non-senses, but also drawings, nearly tales. The next steps take him to inusual and provokingly productions, changing the aestethic of conventional graffiti: not anymore a logo or an inscription serially repeated, but site-specific artworks, contextualized with the location. Traces of his passage can be found from the north-italian countryside to big european cities, from South America to Africa, in the middle of the Himalaya in buddhist atmospheres or in the memorable Kathmandu, in the slums of South-East Asia passing through the separation wall between Israel and Palestine. His research obliaged him on thinking about the city, and the relation between the new ecosystem and people and right now his productions are published by the most known art and design vanguard-magazines. After receiving the maximum vote degree from the Brera Fine-Art Academy in Milan Minelli starts to join his performances with canvas-painting and painting on materials collected during his frequent voyages. The sperimentations, ironic and introspective at the same time, have as common denominator a strong and immediate comunication which continue to hold herself onthe illegal impulse, reclaimed shamelessly, without hidding himself behind a pseudonym. Filippo Minelli writes on his business-card “The idiot son you would like to have”.