UNO is a visual artist based in Rome, active since the early 2000s.
His work develops through the classic techniques of Street Art and muralism, with a focus on posters, collages, stencils, décollage, and the repetition of iconic elements.
Drawing on and reinterpreting the legacy of Warhol, Debord, and Rotella, UNO employs endless repetition and frequent use of bright colors and fluorescent paints to play with — and subvert — the language of advertising.
Starting with the symbolic face from a famous chocolate commercial, he transforms it into an icon of individual revolution against mass society. A face liberated from the role assigned by its creators, paradoxically becoming the ideal vehicle for critiquing advertising itself.
His message is reinforced by an aesthetic of fragmentation, both material and pictorial: pixels, geometries, tears, and broken color fields merge into surfaces that evoke the laceration of the individual and their uniqueness, endlessly reshaped until lost within the multiplicity of mass society.
One hundred thousand, no one, UNO.
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The artist has created works in numerous cities, including: New York City (USA), Los Angeles (USA), San Francisco (USA), Chicago (USA), Hong Kong (HK), São Paulo (BR), Belo Horizonte (BR), Toronto (CA), London (UK), Belfast (UK), Moscow (RU), Berlin (DE), Madrid (ES), Barcelona (ES), Lisbon (PT), Amsterdam (NL), Rome (IT), Milan (IT), Turin (IT), Syracuse (IT), Catania (IT), Bologna (IT), Ascoli Piceno (IT), Potenza (IT), Salerno (IT), Terni (IT), Venice (IT), Taranto (IT), Dortmund (DE), Hamburg (DE), Frankfurt (DE), Marseille (FR), Strasbourg (FR), Athens (GR).
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
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2019 – Photosynthesis Experience (in collaboration with E. De Luigi, F. Zaghini), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Villa Franceschi, Riccione.
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2018 – Sticks And Stones, CRAC Gallery, Terni.
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2017 – QWERTY*, Tricromia ArtGallery, Rome.
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2017 – QWERTY, Portanova12, Bologna.
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2015 – Flop Shop, Hard Discount of Fine Arts, Laszlo Biro, Rome.
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2014 – Enjoy Agoraphobia, Elastico Gallery, Bologna.
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2013 – ForeverYoung, Laszlo Biro, Rome.
Selected Publications:
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2025 – Street Art Italia, dal graffitismo al neomuralismo, La Repubblica.
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2023 – 100 luoghi del contemporaneo, Artribune.
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2021 – 222 artisti emergenti su cui investire, Exibart.
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2018 – Peter Pan, SMYLE - Art and Fairy Tales series, Scripta Maneant, Bologna.
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2017 – TRECCANI street art cultura e società, Enciclopedia Treccani.
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2017 – Street Art in Sicilia, a guide to places and works, Dario Flaccovio Editore.
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2016 – CHEAP street poster art.
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2012 – Street art stories Rome, Mondo Bizzarro.
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2012 – Guerrilla Street Art.
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2011 – Laszlo Biro Bollettino.
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2009 – Street Artists – The Complete Guide, Graffito books Ltd.
Selected Press & Media Coverage:
International New York Times; Juxtapoz Magazine; Rai Tg1; La Repubblica; Corriere Della Sera; Il Messaggero; IlQuotidiano; Huffington Post; Roma Today; Passepartout; RollingStones; LIFO art magazine; Panorama; Vanity Fair; BBC travel; Artribune; L’Espresso; RaiNews24; SkyArte; Abitare; Arts blog; Fabrique Du Cinema; Pow! Wow! Worldwide; Vandalog; Ekosystem; Widewalls; Outsider Magazine; Global Street Art; Brooklyn Street Art; Arte.it; Exibart; LSDmagazine; Art Vibes; Juliet Art Magazine; Collateral; The Museum Of Urban Art; and many more.
