22 years after the urban art work Tuttomondo, painted by Keith Haring in 1989, Pisa returns to the capital of street art, bringing another artist consecrated by the Big Apple to Italy: for four days, from 7 to 10 October, on the occasion of the 11th edition of the Internet Festival, New Yorker Gaia, aka Andrew Pisacane, will paint live at the Manifatture Digitali. The live painting work, created thanks to Gianguido Grassi with the stART – Open your eyes association and promoted by Fondazione Sistema Toscana, will be visible and ‘interactable’ by the public from Thursday 7, the opening day of the Festival, …
22 years after the urban art work Tuttomondo, painted by Keith Haring in 1989, Pisa returns to the capital of street art, bringing another artist consecrated by the Big Apple to Italy: for four days, from 7 to 10 October, on the occasion of the 11th edition of the Internet Festival, New Yorker Gaia, aka Andrew Pisacane, will paint live at the Manifatture Digitali. The live painting work, created thanks to Gianguido Grassi with the stART – Open your eyes association and promoted by Fondazione Sistema Toscana, will be visible and ‘interactable’ by the public from Thursday 7, the opening day of the Festival, until Sunday 10 October. in hours 9.30 – 13 and 14 – 19.00 (free admission). “Cellular Perspectives”, the title of the work that will occupy an area of 30 square meters, is a diptych that interprets the theme of IF2021 or the neologism #PHYGITAL, which indicates the mixture between physical and virtual. Like cells, we have all known a physical delimitation as a consequence of the restrictions on personal freedom due to the health emergency, closed within the historic walls of our cities as in membranes; likewise, thanks to the mobile phone, we have been able to digitally access domestic borders and move to every part of the globe.
Born in New York but of Italian origin, Gaia was included by Forbes among the 30 Under 30s who will change the world. It is not new in Pisa: here in 2017 the artist created the Re-Nasci mural on the facade of the Saint Gobain company, a monument to the work with which the Start Festival- Welcome to Pisa began during the editions of which 11 works were painted changing the face of the historic district of Porta a Mare.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7 to 8.30 pm the Kaleidoscope performance will animate the work in an interactive game of music and light, through which real and digital will merge together: the violinist Nancy Parra and VJ Kri: _ I will tear apart the static dimension of the canvas starting a journey to distant worlds. The performance takes place with the contribution of DSU Toscana and the collaboration of the Universitas Association.
Gaia (Andrew Pisacane), born in New York in 1988, is a street artist trained in Baltimore where he attended the Maryland Institute’s College of Art. Her name derives from the Greek goddess of the earth and, at the beginning of her career, she used images of animals to emphasize her strong interest and sensitivity for nature by bringing it into urban landscapes by reintroducing it in the form of art; another theme of his research is the historical, anthropological and social narration of the contests in which he realizes his works, creating sorts of descriptive panoramas in which the identity of a territory and a community is synthetically grasped. His works can be admired around the world in numerous public spaces and prestigious museum competitions (such as the Smithsonian in Washington). He was a beneficiary of the Fullbright program and painted for the State Department in New Delhi and Bogotá (Gabriel Garcia Marquez National Library).
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