Andrea Ravo Mattoni: Street Art as a New Synthesis of Painting and Behavior

Andrea Ravo Mattoni, an Italian painter who works with spray cans, discusses his artistic journey from graffiti to a synthesis of conceptual art and painting. Growing up surrounded by his father's conceptual behavioral art and his grandfather's painting, he sought a 'third way' through graffiti in 1995. At the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, under Maurizio Bottarelli, he moved from spray cans to canvas, but found the canvas too limiting. He now works on walls, merging street art and painting. His project 'We Will All Be Forgotten' reproduces Caravaggio's 'Taking of Christ' (1602) on urban walls, aiming to bring art to the public. He believes painting offers fragments of personal truth and that abstraction is another form of figuration. His ongoing Burn Cd Project and collaborations with Urban Canvas and ParkinGo continue this exploration.