Scoobafish's Urban Pixel: Hokusai's Great Wave Recreated with a Thousand Road Signs in Sardinia
Maurizio Sergiusti, the Italian land artist also known as Scoobafish, is working on a project called Urban Pixel, which repurposes discarded road signs into physical representations of pixels for landscape art. The initial phase, titled The Last Wave, is currently taking place in Sardinia, where Sergiusti is reimagining Hokusai's Great Wave using hundreds of salvaged traffic signs, preserving their original characteristics. In the first full-scale test, Concerto 0, he examined various elements of the signs. Chapter I focuses on assembling nearly a thousand signs on a beach in Sardinia to create a large wave, featuring a decayed apple as a narrative detail. The Last Wave is temporary, existing for just a few hours, with its essence documented through photography and aerial footage.
Fatti principali
- Maurizio Sergiusti, known as Scoobafish, is an Italian land artist.
- Urban Pixel is a land art project using discarded road signs as physical pixels.
- The first chapter, The Last Wave, is in development in Sardinia.
- The Last Wave reinterprets Hokusai's Great Wave using hundreds of recovered traffic signs.
- Signs are used whole, without cutting, repainting, or modification, retaining original colors, retroreflective surfaces, scratches, rust, and prior-use traces.
- Concerto 0 was the first full-scale test, realized in Sardinia, to study density, overlaps, color relationships, and zenithal readability.
- The Last Wave will assemble nearly a thousand signs on a Sardinian beach and remain for only a few hours before complete removal.
- A deteriorated apple is placed at the center of the composition as a narrative element about consumption, waste, and resource use.
Entità
Artisti
- Maurizio Sergiusti
- Scoobafish
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Hokusai
- Christina Vergopoulou
Istituzioni
- exibart.com
- designboom
Luoghi
- Sardinia
- Italy
Fonti
- Exibart —
- Designboom —