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| Luca Massironi aka Flycat, first encountered Hip Hop culture and Spraycan art at the beginning of the '80s; in the same period, in Milan, he met the New York master A-One (together with Basquiat, Cutrone and Rammelzee, one of the chief figures of the New York avant-garde of the ’80s, deceased in 2001), who taught him later became the fundamentals underlying Flycat’s pictorial style. Today Flycat is recognised as the leading figure on the Hip Hop/Spraycan Art scene internationally. In 1991 a meeting with the New York pioneers of Spray Art, Phase 2, would have a deep impact on his subsequent artistic development. In 1997 he worked with the administration of the Beccaria Penal Juvenile Institute in Milan to create an art laboratory for youths incarcerated there. He has written for "Aelle", Italy’s first magazine dealing with Hip Hop culture/music, editing the section dedicated to Spraycan Art, as well as for the magazines "Tattoo Energy", "K. Code" and "Sportswear International". In ’99 Rizzoli published his manual of “Spray Art”. He has worked as testimonial and creative for well-known international street and high fashion clothing brands like Joker, Levi’s, Nike, Dimensione Danza and Enrico Coveri. He has made a number of hip hop/rap music productions, the latest of which is the CD album “Our sign”, produced by the American band Sick Symphonies. He has been a part of the Chicano cultural-artistic Movement of East Los Angeles, California, working with some of the best-known artists like the painter Chaz Bojorquez , the poet and writer Luis J. Rodriguez and the photographer and director Estevan Oriol. |
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