More and more often we find ourselves reading disconcerting news about the situation of our Planet. The problems are many, climate change, the extinction of entire animal species, pollution, the accumulation of waste. We have dozens and dozens of data available, on how much we consume, how much we recycle, how much time we have before the situation becomes irrecoverable, but these are numbers that are difficult to concretely visualize. 

This is why The Krank, a Greek artist who lives and works in Berlin, has decided to show, through a truly suggestive installation, how much waste we produce and cannot recycle. The work is called Traces and was set up in the X LANE cultural center, during the Graphic Days #14 exhibition held in October. 

The entire floor of one of the building’s halls was covered with 500 black trash bags. A sense of bewilderment pervades the viewer who, used to seeing a maximum of ten bags together, is completely surrounded by them. In addition, the installation is also illuminated by red lights, to give a further sense of imminent danger. 

Traces by The Krank makes us think, soon the streets of our cities, the beaches, the parks could have the appearance of this installation. We hope not.  

It is called Studio Studio Studio and it is expected to be the next masterpiece by Edoardo Tresoldi, but this time it is not one of his emblematic installations of wire mesh and industrial materials, but a real interdisciplinary reality with the aim of creating hybrid cultural projects involving from time to time different creatives. 

Studio Studio Studio’s first project is not long in coming and it will see the light in Saudi Arabia soon, on the occasion of the Diriyah Oasis festival curated by the Dubai Designlab Experience studio.

It is called Gharfa and consists of an experiential pavilion that in its highest part will reach 26 meters high and that will investigate and will be focused on the close relationship between man, landscape and architecture.

Gharfa is the result of a work born from the collaboration between Edoardo Tresoldi – obviously – and Alberonero, designer known for his interventions focused on the use of color and on how this can convey emotions to the viewer, Max Magaldi, Italian musician and father of the so-called “sound murals” (“murales sonori“), or site-specific sounds of entire public spaces, and Matteo Foschi, garden designer and founder of Odd Garden Studio who with his installations specialized in the design and construction of gardens, green spaces, and contemporary installations has changed the classical concept of gardening.  

We don’t know yet what Gharfa will look like, but taking into account the skills of the four Italian artists and their previous works we can only expect something truly extraordinary. 

Photo by Aruallan
Photo by Cristiano Coini
Visual Identity by Derein

A few days ago in Milan – in the Lambrate area – Anthropoceano appeared, a mural on the wall of a building in Via Viotti in front of the train station created by Iena Cruz, a Milanese street artist. This is a marine theme and combines art, sustainability, and awareness of one of the most current environmental emergencies: the pollution of the seas caused by plastic. The concept is to create a work that has as its main objective to make people reflect on the scars left by man on the seabed and on the surface of the ocean.

The peculiarity of this work is the technique with which it was created as the artist decided to create an anti-smog mural. This is made possible by the use of special paint, called Airlite, which reduces by 88% the presence of nitrogen dioxide in the air, an innovative technology capable of eliminating pollutants through natural and artificial light. Painting has the task of absorbing the pollution of the city in an artistic way. This has made the wall of the building a sort of natural purifier whose effectiveness is equal to the action of about 330 square meters covered by tall trees.

The realization of this mural is part of the project No Plastic More Fun conceived and carried out by Worldrise, a non-profit organization that sponsors sustainable solutions for large urban centers, with the support of the Ocean Family Foundation and the collaboration of North Sails. North Sails has long been active in tackling the problem of disposable plastics by creating a network of venues that have decided not to serve any type of disposable plastic product.

In the middle of Anthropoceano, there is an oil platform, whose chimney follows the profile of a plastic container that traps the marine ecosystem.
In a period like this, where the environmental struggle is more alive than ever, the work wants to creatively retrace the path that plastic accomplishes: from its origin to the environmental impact that comes with it. At the same time, depicting some of the most threatened marine animals, the mural invites people to reflect on all the issues related to the exploitation of natural resources such as overfishing and poaching of which sharks and whales are victims.

Text by Anna Cardaci

Mark Zuckerberg dressed as a Roman emperor, complete with a laurel wreath, side on the throne showing his thumbs down. Neil Armstrong in his astronaut’s suit is sipping a drink, sitting behind a camera, before filming the moon landing moment. 
Yonatan Popper‘s images manage to enclose messages and meanings with a strong impact. 

Yonatan is an illustrator and animator from Israel, where he studied at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, which has seen his works published on heads such as The New Yorker, San Antonio Magazine, The Guardian, Blazer magazine, Globes magazine, Liberal-magazine, and many others. His illustrations have the power to enclose an ironic side, very subtle but essential, and a more satirical, edgy. 

Yonatan Popper takes his cue from everything around him, from comics, silkscreens, futuristic posters, but also from what he sees on the internet, from films and TV series, from pop culture and events related to current affairs. Once he has understood what to illustrate and how to illustrate it, the Israeli artist begins to work with paper and pencil; only later does he scan the sketch and complete the work digitally. It is at this stage that he calibrates the colors, using them to highlight the main subject so that he can immediately capture our attention. 

Discover a selection of works by Yonatan Popper in our gallery!