Biancoshock & Francesco Garbelli Conclude Apocalypse Trilogy with Omnia Global Defense in Milan
In 2026, the final piece of the Apocalypse Trilogy, titled Omnia Global Defense, was revealed by Milanese street artists Biancoshock and Francesco Garbelli. This trilogy commenced in 2021 with Super Size Flowers, showcasing grotesquely bloated flowers, followed by Engulf & Devour, which depicted flowers confined in cages. Omnia envisions a multinational corporation with sectors dedicated to weaponry and pharmaceutical research, critiquing the juxtaposition of such conflicting operations within corporate frameworks. The flowers in Omnia are reminiscent of laboratory specimens under clear domes, commenting on how institutions package nature for preservation, potentially leading to its depletion. The fictional corporate sponsorship throughout the trilogy adds humor, emphasizing the normalization of systems that reshape the natural environment. Omnia’s corporate motto is “One Force, One Future.”
Key facts
- Biancoshock and Francesco Garbelli have completed their Apocalypse Trilogy with the third installation, Omnia Global Defense, in Milan in 2026.
- The first two chapters, Super Size Flowers and Engulf & Devour, were introduced in 2021 in Milan.
- Super Size Flowers featured grotesquely overfed flowers in a public green space, sponsored by an imaginary fast-food benefactor.
- Engulf & Devour placed hundreds of flowers in cages, borrowing the visual logic of intensive farming.
- Omnia Global Defense is imagined as a multinational holding company with one arm devoted to weapons and another to pharmaceutical research.
- The flowers in Omnia resemble cultivated laboratory specimens, separated from the surrounding park beneath transparent domes.
- The work critiques how nature is packaged as something to defend, restore, offset, certify, and sustainably manage.
- The fictional corporate sponsorship is integral to the trilogy's comedy, with the sign beside the artwork part of the work.
- Omnia supplies the corporate assurance “One Force, One Future.”
- The artists locate catastrophe in the steady normalization of systems that alter the natural world and then congratulate themselves for managing the consequences.
Entities
Artists
- Biancoshock
- Francesco Garbelli
Institutions
- Brooklyn Street Art
Locations
- Milan
- Italy