Inspired by graffiti, posters the Web, stickers are gaining wide attention as an artistic phenomenon. A sticker can be created Monday morning in New York, e-mailed to a stranger in Paris and affixed to the back of a trash receptacle on the Champs-Elysées in the early afternoon --New York Times
A wall is just a good a place to publish something as anywhere else. --Banksy
Inspired by graffiti, posters the Web, stickers are gaining wide attention as an artistic phenomenon. A sticker can be created Monday morning in New York, e-mailed to a stranger in Paris and affixed to the back of a trash receptacle on the Champs-Elysées in the early afternoon --New York Times
A wall is just a good a place to publish something as anywhere else. --Banksy
Inspired by graffiti, posters the Web, stickers are gaining wide attention as an artistic phenomenon. A sticker can be created Monday morning in New York, e-mailed to a stranger in Paris and affixed to the back of a trash receptacle on the Champs-Elysées in the early afternoon --New York Times
A wall is just a good a place to publish something as anywhere else. --Banksy
Microbo,
Her paintings and drawings, inspired and ignited on the streets, are now also on view at a constant string of international events. They represent a smooth, twisted and organic evolution, made of strings, streams and living shapeless creatures, which recall life s complexity. Like any music form rises from a suggestive merging of only seven
notes, so Microbo s art develops through the combination of basic elements she likes to play with.
Born and raised in Sicily, Microbo spent the 90s in London. Initially she was working and studying in graphics and multimedia and it was during this time that she began her close collaboration with Italian artist
Bo 130.
After a life changing experience in London she moved to Milan and soon after created a unique, but accessible style, evolved through experimental techniques and a collage of applications and emotion, the organism that is her work began to speak all for itself.
Upon their return to Italy, the couple organized exhibitions that were at the center of a particular art movement that was just emerging in Europe and the United States. Arteimpropria (2003) and The Urban Edge Show (2005) are two of the events that most influenced the global underground art movement by inserting it with a principle Italian current that would come quickly into the limelight.
Together with The Don they authored Izastikup a book dedicated to the culture of self produced stickers published by Drago in 2005.
BO130 Born and raised in Milan (1971), Bo130 studied at the Liceo Artistico in his hometown before traveling to London where he continued his education at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and eventually graduated from London College of Communication, the largest college within the University of the Arts London, with degrees in Graphic and Media Design.
Bo130 explores different levels of visual communication through animation, art direction, graphic and web design. He experiments and blends different techniques such as painting, stencils, stickers, markers and spray paint to visually describe his interests and influences. His main inspirations grow from urban lifestyles, music, food, sex and graffiti.
Bo130 has exhibited in galleries across Europe and the US, often collaborating with Microbo. In December, 2006 he participated in the Wooster on Spring project at 11 Spring Street organized by the Wooster Collective.
notes, so Microbo s art develops through the combination of basic elements she likes to play with.
Born and raised in Sicily, Microbo spent the 90s in London. Initially she was working and studying in graphics and multimedia and it was during this time that she began her close collaboration with Italian artist Bo 130.After a life changing experience in London she moved to Milan and soon after created a unique, but accessible style, evolved through experimental techniques and a collage of applications and emotion, the organism that is her work began to speak all for itself.
Upon their return to Italy, the couple organized exhibitions that were at the center of a particular art movement that was just emerging in Europe and the United States. Arteimpropria (2003) and The Urban Edge Show (2005) are two of the events that most influenced the global underground art movement by inserting it with a principle Italian current that would come quickly into the limelight.
Together with The Don they authored Izastikup a book dedicated to the culture of self produced stickers published by Drago in 2005.
