Beast (street artist)

Beast is an Italian anonymous contemporary street artist from Milan.[1]

Beast
Born
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forArtist

Early life

Beast is the pseudonym for an anonymous Milan-based street artist who has been active on the streets of Europe and United States since 2009, with a focus on stencils at first and later at creating digital collages aiming to highlight political and social issues.[2][3][4]

Career

Beast created public artworks that portray well-known political figures including Donald Trump,[5] Angela Merkel,[6][7] Marine Le Pen,[8] Matteo Renzi,[9] Silvio Berlusconi,[10] Matteo Salvini[11][12] and Mario Draghi.[13]

Beast uses photo manipulation technique[14] to create his works as well as wheat pasting and billboard hijacking methods[15] to place his works in the public sphere.

Art exhibitions
Year Exhibition City
2019 Affordable Art Fair [16] Milan
2018 Stroke Art Fair[17] Munich
2017 Public Art Festival[18][19] Athens
2017 Oxford International Art Fair[20] Oxford
2016 H Views Politics in Art[21] Zurich
2016 Grenoble Street Art Festival[22] Grenoble
2016 Dream Factory[6] Milan

Bibliography
  • Catz, Jérôme (2015). Street Art le Guide (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2081358805.
  • Ganz, Nicholas (2015). Street Messages. Dokument Press. ISBN 978-9185639731.

References
  1. "Guerrilla art, Berlusconi come Lennon" [Guerilla art, Berlusconi like Lennon]. la Repubblica (in Italian). 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  2. "Incisive and thought-provoking works by Beast". thereart.ro. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. Jasmine Lark (2017-12-17). "Biography of Beast". widewalls.ch. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  4. Giampiero Rossi (2018-04-18). "Milano, il misterioso Beast che ride dei politici. "I miei quadri regalati alle strade"" [Milan, the mysterious Beast that laughs at politicians. «My paintings given to the streets»]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  5. "Renzi è Napoleone e la Boschi una pin up: i politici rivisitati da Beast in mostra" [Renzi is Napoleon and the Boschi a pin up: the politicians revisited by Beast on display]. la Repubblica (in Italian). 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  6. Giampiero Rossi (2016-06-09). "Gli sberleffi di Beast esposti per la prima volta in una galleria" [Milino Salvini as Hitler]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  7. "Merkel als Ikone" [Merkel as an icon]. Spiegel Online (in German). 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  8. "Beast". Hypocrite Design. 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  9. "Milano, la street art rilegge la politica: celebra Renzi e i suoi nemici" [Milan, street art re-read politics: celebrating Renzi and his enemies]. la Repubblica (in Italian). October 17, 2015. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  10. Lucia Landoni (2018-02-19). "Politici in posa come modelli sui totem pubblicitari a Milano: da Meloni 'sfollata' all'abbraccio di Bersani e D'Alema" [Politicians posing as models on advertising totems in Milan: from Meloni 'displaced' to the embrace of Bersani and D'Alema]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  11. Lucia Landoni (2018-06-26). "Milano, Salvini come Hitler: in via Palermo il poster del "Fuhrer" Matteo" [Milan, Salvini as Hitler: in via Palermo the poster of the "Fuhrer" Matteo]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  12. "Milano, Salvini come Hitler: il manifesto di Beast in via Palermo" [Milino Salvini as Hitler]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  13. "Street art, dalla Merkel a Salvini: il 'business dei migranti' sui muri di Milano" [Street art, from Merkel to Salvini: the 'business of migrants' on the walls of Milan]. Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2015-04-21. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  14. ""Kάντε την Ελλάδα Ελλάδα Ξανά": Ατομική του Beast για το 2ο Φεστιβάλ Δημόσιας Τέχνης" ["Make Greece Greece Again": Beast's Individual for the 2nd Festival of Public Art]. liberal.gr (in Greek). 2017-06-12. Archived from the original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  15. "Manhattan Gets It Up : Beast Fools With Subway Map". brooklynstreetart.com. 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  16. Ronchi, Giulia (January 26, 2019). "I migliori tre stand di Affordable Art Fair 2019 a Milano secondo Artribune". artribune.com (in Italian). Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  17. Bailey, Christie (October 15, 2017). "Coverage: Stroke Art Fair 2017". StreetArtNews.net. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  18. "Ξεκινά το 2ο Φεστιβάλ Δημόσιας Τέχνης με θεματική ενότητα "Επιβίωση"". thetoc.gr. May 5, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  19. "Make Greece Greece Again". Kathimerini. June 16, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  20. "Beast Italy". Oxford International Art Fair. p. 11. Retrieved August 7, 2018 – via issuu.
  21. "H-Views". hypocritedesign.com. 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  22. Corubolo, Charline (December 20, 2016). ""Art engagé" : les activistes de l'art sont à Spacejunk". Le petit bulletin Grenoble. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
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