Meet the artists in our Street Art Festival​

Fidia is an Italian artist born in 1977, living and working in Los Angeles, whose innovative work has earned him worldwide acclaim. After completing his degree in Production Design at The Academy of Fine Arts, Fidia continued to expand his artistic horizons, working as a graphic designer, art director, and photographer. With his mastery of illustration and painting, Fidia's work has been elevated to a new level of creativity with sculpture. He reimagined iconic pop culture characters and symbols into thought-provoking sculptures that offer a playful but strong critique of societal values. Fidia's sculptures have since been showcased in some of the world's most important collections and public spaces, including the Venice Biennale, the Moco Museum in Amsterdam, the Spy Scape Museum in New York, and the public permanent collection of the Mandarin Oriental in Taipei.

The Italian artistic duo, Sten Lex, began stencilling in Rome in 2001 and have since brought their enriching skills to some of the city’s largest architectural spaces, including museums and the like. Their unique technique, the halftone stencil, allows them to create poetic and powerful pieces influenced by op art. And this mesmerising work has been exhibited in several international exhibitions, including the Caixa Cultural held in Brazil in 2014. Many of their works are inspired by the festivals in which they’ve taken part – for example, during the 2016 Bukruk Festival in Bangkok they made their abstract work ‘The Storm’.​

Urbansolid is a street art project that takes writing to the third dimension through the sculptural installation. The two artists - Riccardo Cavalleri and Gabriele Castellani - together understand how their sculptural language was shaping the urban space. Thus they return to city walls, making three-dimensional writing, bordering on installation: sculptures representing human anatomical casts, guns, televisions, and other symbols of pop culture and mainstream, are articulated on the walls bringing with them allegorical and denunciatory meanings social. It is as if the city exudes objects from its walls, as if what has been two-dimensional until now is trying to evolve by going out and exploring the third dimension, enriching abandoned areas or slightly run-down and degraded areas, specifically chosen by the artists.

Julien Malland, aka ‘Seth’, began his career in 1996, where his first spray compositions were made on the walls of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris. While character creation is his speciality, it’s his travels around the world – discovering customs and local urban artists – that have earned him the nickname the ‘Globepainter’. The French mural painter works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, while also heading up the publishing house Wasted Talent. His book Globepainter takes the form of a travel diary that combines photos, drawings and illustrations from his travels around the world – retracing his steps alongside fellow international street artists. ​

Born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Lidia was interested in drawing from an early age. Today her work regularly features figures and faces; her speciality in the careful analysis of how much you can say with just one facial expression. Character work takes centre stage in Lidia’s art, where dream-like compositions spotlight the expressiveness of her protagonists and create intimate psychological portraits. A master of strong, precise lines and complimentary colour palettes, Lidia has merged illustration, murals and street art in recent years – leading her to participate in several street art events.

This Italian street-art duo – Walter Contipelli Wally and Alessandra Montanari Alita – first bonded over their shared love of the stencil technique, which they perfected on the walls of their hometown, Milan. They’ve since gained international recognition for their unique use of the art form – even being invited to participate in the Cans Festival, organised by Banksy. The pair’s artwork includes iconic portraits of leaders and celebrities and sometimes provocative imagery that attempts social criticism. Today, the name ‘Orticanoodles’ represents a much larger production group that has become a home for other artists.

An Italian cartoonist, Sara studied animation and comics at the International School of Comics in Rome before beginning her career at IDW Publishing, working on the Star Trek and Ghost Whisperer comic series. She has also collaborated on Marvel Comics since 2008 – working as the principal artist for the second series of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, released in 2011, as well as 2018’s Oscar-winning cinema release Spider-Man: A New Universe. In June 2019 it was announced that Sara will be designing a Spider-Man comic mini-series written by JJ Abrams and his son Henry.

Born and based in Rome, Lucamaleonte has been painting the streets since the early 2000s – first with stencils and posters, then with brushes and paints. His work mainly features natural forms, such as animals and plants, each one depicting a symbolic, hidden world to be revealed and interpreted. Having exhibited across the world, Lucamaleonte loves to tell the story of a place through his murals. In addition to street art, the illustrator has collaborated with the likes of Bulgari and Nike, and on editorial projects with LaTerza, L'Espresso, Sperling & Kupfer, Gorilla Sapiens Edizioni and Big Sur.

Having established himself as a well-known name in the new Italian contemporary art for years, Marco is recognised for his unique and refined style. His works, created with spray cans, are the result of reinterpreting existing images and altering them to show a secret, dark and melancholy soul. In recent years, Marco’s style has undergone a major change: abandoning its splashes of colour to focus on the use of the stencil. It’s under this new look that he’s created a series of portraits formed by tangles of ‘line art’. Having exhibited in Europe, the United States and Japan, Marco has performed works for Universal Pic., Mondadori Electa, Liberty (UK) and Paris Fashion Week, and has collaborated with world-famous personalities.

Based between Rome and Milan, Pax creates in multiple forms, from painting to photography, collages to videos. Her work is influenced by street culture and the world of children – and, as a metaphor for the human condition, features the continuous contamination of languages. A graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, Pax has collaborated with publishing houses and advertising agencies creating covers, advertising campaigns, illustrations and collages, and directing videos and photo shoots. Her collaborations include Marie Claire Italia, Vanity Fair Italia, Rolling Stone, Sole24Ore, Fendi and many more.

Fabrizio Sarti, aka ‘SeaCreative’ – originally from Varese, Italy – started his creative career as a writer before beginning his graphic design studies. After turning his passion into a job, Fabrizio has created murals all over, including on abandoned buildings, hotels, at festivals, and for various companies. Interestingly, the name SeaCreative was born by chance, after a media mistake, which saw his website domain mistakenly attributed as the artist’s stage name, inspiring Fabrizio to change his handle.

Born in Provence, Camille moved to England to study Textile Design at the University of Brighton. She founded her own brand in East London in 2009 where she still lives and works today. With massive public artworks around the world, her reputation has spread attracting clients such as Harrods, Armani, Facebook and Nintendo, and colorful murals of her are popping up as far away as Australia and North America. Her ambition is to make people more joyful through her designs. In recent years, her patterns have entered the Facebook offices, Armani accessories, New York design apartments and the luxury hotels of Mauritius. And last year her exuberant playground of textures and colors "Walala X Play", was one of the most talked about exhibitions of London Design Week.

The Italian artist Peeta, an outstanding sculptor and internationally renowned street artist, blends graffiti and abstract shapes in murals with optical illusions, combines elements of graffiti and abstract art to paint murals that seem to transform and dissolve architectural structures. Abstract shapes swirl and cut into walls to form Escher-like scenes that play tricks on the eyes and change depending on the viewing angle. He studied sculpture in high school and interior design in university and was greatly influenced by architect Zaha Hadid whose work bears great resemblances to the shapes of him. Peeta expresses the world of design, sculpture, underground culture and international street art, explores anamorphic distortions and three-dimensionality in order to encourage new ways of seeing and understanding the world.

Luca Barcellona is 40 years old and from Milan. After graduating from high school, where he had taken graphic design courses, he enrolled in night classes and got a job in a music store. Using his free time to patiently practice his calligraphy, he soon began accepting small commissions from the hip-hop scene. To date he is recognized by the press and design schools as one of the greatest calligraphers in the world. His lettering is everywhere, from Absolut Vodka bottles to Carhartt and Nike sweatshirts, to artworks for D & G, Zoo York, Eni and his compositions of dense textures of writing punctuate the sentences of the German poet Bertolt Brecht

Rame13 is a multifaceted artist who uses different techniques going from graphics to painting to get to deal with urban art and tattoo. She was born in Pisa in 1989, since the age of 27 she has been divided between urban art, attending the biggest festivals in the sector, and tattooing. She wins street art competitions, collaborates with Pinko at the Galeries Lafayette in Paris and paints an entire showroom and a 30m x 5m jungle completely with a brush for the Spanish Street Art Festival. She is involved in converting urban spaces into open-air museums, among many projects, she works on the port of Civitanova Marche and on the redevelopment of the Genoese Certosa district, which was struck by the tragedy of the Morandi Bridge.

His real name is Nicolò Tromben, he was born and lives in Vicenza. He comes from a past as a street artist and is passionate about underground culture (especially hip hop). He studied at the Milan Polytechnic and traveled a lot. His visual world is fun and irreverent, mixing elements of 90s pop culture with absolutely contemporary colors and lines. A very personal style that becomes the magic filter with which he sees the world and expresses his double childhood souls: that of the brat and that of the artist. Nick Ohlo participated in the instagram contest "This is your moment, be inspired by Ligabue" promoted by Fidenza Village in autumn 2020.

Giulio Vesprini’s Structure G0059 is formed from long research on the abstract landscape. The piece is a fusion of the shapes and colours found within the Village, cleverly layered to create a series of dynamic overlaps, alluding to the continuous dialogue between nature and architecture and how they generate new visual communications.

Visible on the facade of Jimmy Choo boutique.