RESUME
2000-2008
> First steps in the artistic field thanks to graffiti and, more generally, to street art
2008-2012
> Academic career - Art Direction & Graphic Design - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) - Milan
2010-2012
> Filrouge project; public art / temporary installations
2012 Autumn
> ArteLago (group exhibition), Origlio (CH)
2012 Winter
> Arte Urbana Lugano (personal exhibition), Lugano (CH)
2013 Winter
> L'Arte della Memoria (group exhibition), Gentilino (CH)
2015 Spring
> Re-creation (public mural art), Taverne (CH)
2015-2021
> Experimentation on - landscapes painting - various artistic project/urban interventions
2021 Spring
> Freaky Funk Flow (public mural art), Lugano (CH)
2022 Spring
> Le Stanze dell'Arte (group exhibition), Chiasso-Lugano-Bellinzona (CH)
2024 Summer
> SOTTO/SOPRA Arte Urbana: dalla strada al museo, andata e ritorno (group exhibition), Santa Maria della Scala - Siena (I)
2024 / 9 August - 1 November
> Vis-à-Vis - Forma e paesaggio (group exhibition), Ospedale Regionale La Carità - Locarno (CH)
2024 / 7 September - 17 November
> Street Art (R)Evolution (group exhibition), Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art - Matsuyama (JPN)
2024 / 5 August - 31 December
> LOVE & VISIONS (personal exhibition), Banca Raiffeisen Basso Ceresio - Melano, Riva San Vitale, Bissone (CH)
2025 / 22 January - 23 March
> Street Art (R)Evolution (group exhibition), Shibuya Stream hall, Shibuya - Tokyo (JPN)


He began to approach art at the age of 14 with his first tags.
From the age of 15 to 20 he always had fun with colors and, more precisely from 17 onwards, making graffiti, experimenting different styles and names, between lettering and puppets.
Soon after he experimented with various street art techniques, using different media such as stickers, posters, stencils, collages, installations, recycled materials and so on.
During those years - more precisely between 2008 and 2012 - he expanded his skillset by studying art direction and graphic design at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. During this path he was able to discover more about the world of digital graphics and advertising, a path that allowed him to grow technically and made him understand the profound fascination he feels for classical techniques, which he prefers over digital media.
Together with a friend with whom he did graffiti, aware of the reality of Lugano (an unsuitable place and not inclined to accept unauthorized urban artistic interventions), he started another urban art project, which allowed them to create unauthorized works of considerable size, without however running into legal consequences. The project was called “Filrouge – Temporary Lines”. The only material used: a red wool thread.
Below is the link to the project, which is interesting both from a visual and written content point of view:
Filrouge (Lugano (CH), 2010-2012)
In the same period, in addition to the Filrouge project, he has always experimented individually with street art interventions, in particular through the "Unintentional Brainstorming" project - LINK - CLICK HERE - a series of works used as stickers throughout the city and thanks to which he had the opportunity to organize a personal exhibition, called "smile.", in collaboration with Arte Urbana Lugano and the City of Lugano. The exhibition included works related to the "Unitentional Brainstorming" project and other works created for the occasion, which are part of the "Ready-made" collection - LINK - CLICK HERE - a series of works that oscillates between nonsense and social criticism.
Link:
Arte Urbana Lugano (Lugano (CH), 2010-2012)
“sorridi. “
issuu.com/luganoeventi/docs/catalogo_au
(pagina 25 + pagina 47)
damianomengozzi.com/unintentionalbrainstorming
n that period, being very active with artistic interventions in the center of Lugano, the editorial staff of L'Universo - the student newspaper of USI (*University of Italian Switzerland) - asked for an interview which now remains as a memory of a very carefree and full of hope.
Link:
Interview for L’Universo (Lugano (CH), 2012)
He then continued to paint both in the studio and in the context of urban art, both authorized and unauthorized. This allowed him to participate in a beautiful mural art event in 2013 in Gentilino, where several artists were present. The theme of the event was "The Art of Memory". He decided to paint a mystical elephant and had the luck and intuition to set up the entire surrounding space, also creating another site-specific work, using fragments of mirror and building material found on site.
Here some links about the event:
Arte della memoria
(Villa Ambrosetti, Gentilino (CH), 2013)
“Timeless”
www.facebook.com/RSIcultplus/videos/larte-della-memoria-villa-ambrosetti/1058889957487198/
(minuto 3:25 - 4:43)
labrouge.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/lam-larte-della-memoria-a-lugano-in-una-villa-abbandonata/
1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/167389
In 2015 he collaborated with another municipality, designing and realizing the revaluation of the external walls of the Traversee kindergarten in Taverne, a very colorful project that had a fantastic response from the very young.
Links:
Revaluation of Kindergarten Traversee in Taverne
“re-creation” (Taverne (CH), 2015)