8 March, street art for women

ROME - In the world of street art, female presences are increasingly numerous: talented and creative artists denounce and express themselves by painting on brick and concrete walls, on buildings, under bridges, along roads, in stations, even on trees and in abandoned places that are transformed into open-air galleries.

Here are 10 female voices who, equipped with cans of paint and artistic stickers, create frescoes, stencils and murals that loom in the suburbs of cities around the world.

As for fellow artists, even the women of street art often live in anonymity or in any case in secrecy, because only their creations speak about them.

    Alice Pasquini is the most famous Italian street artist: her murals, which portray familiar and at the same time dreamlike figures;

they can be admired from Rome to New York, from Marseille to Buenos Aires.

Street artist, painter, illustrator and set designer, she has developed over time various lines of research and has created works for museums and places of culture around the world.

Born in Rome, she created a huge fresco entitled "It's a new day" on the wall of a church in Via Antinori in the Quadraro della Capitale district, the center of Italian street art par excellence, depicting scenes of smiling children with soft colors and bold lines. , colorful hot air balloons and a large dog crouched next to its mistress.

    Chiara Pulselli from Cagliari, aka Kiki Skipi, lives in Bologna and creates dreamlike and super colorful worlds, inhabited by faceless women.

Ironic and dreamer, she has a past as a photographer and painter that has left an important mark on her creations.

The drawing, however, is the form that the young artist prefers to express herself.

    Miss Van is a writer and illustrator from Toulouse with an unmistakable trait: the world of cartoons and the Japanese one have greatly influenced her works, scattered between Barcelona, ​​New York, Sao Paulo and Montreal.

In his creations he portrays dreamlike and somewhat baroque women.

    The monsters portrayed by Gio Pistone, an artist who lives and works above all at the Quadraro in Rome, are explosive and intense: the creatures he depicts do not scare but are a current metaphor of diversity and contemporary reality.

Among the works he cares most about is the "Free Theater of Lucid Dream", a permanent installation created in Cosenza for the BoCs-Art artistic residences.

    The writer from Bergamo Alessandra Odoni, aka Ale Senso, lives and works in Berlin where she inaugurated "Apartament A", an underground space destined to host cultural activities of all kinds.

The young artist gives color and shape to the stories of women who have suffered violence through incisive and at the same time poetic graphic strokes.

    Maya Hayuk is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn and is known for the bold geometric patterns she uses in large murals.

The writer, who has also exhibited in numerous contemporary art museums, loves to use Ukrainian craftsmanship in her psychedelic and geometric visions.

    The works of the South African artist FaithXLVII, present in cities and museums around the world, bring spirituality and nature to urban environments: his drawings, in fact, look like illustrations of fairy tales transported into real life.

    The artist deals with delicate topics, from human rights to social issues, transforming chaos into refined stories, always of great visual impact.

    Born in Iran to parents who fled the civil war, Shamsia Hassani is the first Afghan artist to devote herself to street art.

    His works, used as a means of information and dissemination, depict moments of daily life that revolve around the figures of women rigorously portrayed with the burqa.

For years now, the artist has been exhibiting his digital works and street art in India, Iran, Germany, Italy and Switzerland and in the diplomatic missions of Kabul.

    Danish artist Jacoba Niepoort has created huge murals all over the world. making a very particular use of colors;

the writer is also the creator of the Home MuralFest project, a collective initiative that has inspired artists from all over the world to paint their works of art on the walls of their homes and on the walls of their gardens.

    The young talented street artist Bastardilla is of Colombian origin: her masonry works stimulate reflections and new ways of thinking in people.

Her sources of inspiration are the perception and the condition of women in the world: the artist, in fact, loves to tell the strength of women both from a physical and conceptual point of view.

(HANDLE).