Beast has produced more than 200 urban installations in more than 40 cities across Europe, United States and Japan. With his ironic and provocative collages, Beast deconstructs well-known faces of politics and the world of entertainment, recreating scenarios to the limit of veracity. At the beginnings his distinguished mash-ups, framed in gold and freely placed on the streets, have quickly attracted the attention of media, challenging the urban audience to question the truthfulness of the information, in a continuous play of references between the real world and the ideal world proposed by the artist. Since then he moved to bigger size artworks, pasting up giant posters on the walls of the main European cities, replacing advertising posters with his own artworks and creating giant murals on abandoned buildings’ facades in the countryside. Beast is considered a “visual manipulator”, all of his collages are made by hundreds of layers taken from the photographic archive of our history, all the elements are aesthetically updated and combined in order to create a new image, a “true fake” that however false, it may seem plausible to the viewer's eye. He considers the streets as an open canvas, working with urban environments his “open-air galleries” promote an idea of democratic art, shifting the spotlight from the museum work to the immediate accessibility of the artefact.
The end result carries conversations, reminds us that our public spaces need to be places for dialogue, creating bridges of trust where people from different political views can come together.
Recent Exhibitions:
Spacejunk Art Center – Solo Exhibition – Grenoble, France – November 2019
ST.ART ’19 – Strasbourg, France – November 2019
Spacejunk Art Center - Lyon, France - September 2019
Grenoble Street Art Festival - Grenoble, France - June 2019
Spacejunk Art Center - Bayonne, France - May 2019
Affordable Art Fair – Milan, Italy – January 2019
Luxembourg Art Show – Luxembourg, Lux – December 2018
Independent Art Show – Bruxelles, Belgium – November 2018
Scope Art Show – Basel, Switzerland – June 2018
Stroke Art Fair – Munich, Germany – May 2018
Art Nordic Group Show – Copenaghen, Denmark – April 2018
The Lowbrow Chronicles Solo Exhibition – Lyon, France – April 2018
The Lowbrow Chronicles Solo Exhibition – Berlin, Germany – March 2018
Stroke Art Fair – Munich, Germany – Oct 2017
Bond Solo Exhibition – Milan, Italy – July 2017
Public Art Festival 2017 – Athens, Greece – June 2017
Oxford International Art Fair – Oxford, Uk – February 2017
H Views Politics in Art – Zurich, Switzerland – November 2016
Grenoble Street Art Festival – Grenoble, France – June 2016
Dream Factory Solo Exhibition – Milan, Italy – June 2016
Tokyo International Art Fair – Tokyo, Japan – May 2016
Cologne Cityleaks Urban Festival – Cologne, Germany – Sept 2015
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Art Rot ’20 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - February 2020
Stroke Art Fair - Munich, Germany - March 2020
Website: beaststreetart.com
Instagram: @beast_street
