He has the face of the clean boy, of the boy who wants to change the world, of those who grew up first as a writer, then as a street-artist and today as a post-strocet artist, maturing an uncommon and non-trivial experience. So much so that today from Italy and Bergamo also lands in New York. It is not a little for a thirty year old. And he even makes the Knight Berlusconi land. In contemporary art Street Art Instead, it refers to a precise artistic current that was born in the seventies and eighties and follows its own rules and its own development. “Independent Public Art”, “Post-graffiti”, “Neo-graffiti” And “Guerrilla Art”: these are some of the terms that with different meanings indicate street art. And if today in part, street art is a little overcome, to better understand it it is necessary to speak of its evolution, and therefore we can speak of the birth of a “Post-Street Art“.”
In parallel in America and Europe a series of traditional training artists begins to create their works on the walls of the streets without an authorization, looking for a direct comparison with the passerby and often transmitting protest and social report messages.
Jean Michael Basquiat and Keit Haring are the best known of this first phase and both are affected by the influence of the Pop
Art Of Andy Warhol. Prematurely disappeared at the end of the eighties, they laid the foundations for the next street art and are still a point of reference for many artists. If their technique preferred the use of the brush it has been since the eighties that it stencil It has become an icon of street art. Blek Le Rat He is the French artist among the first to use this medium, used by other street artists including his own Banksytoday the best known worldwide. If the main feature of the Street art It was his place on city walls, something has changed today. Among the most famous street artists including the same Bansky, Mr. Brainwah, Invader and Obey For years now they have passed from the wall to the canvas or have preferred collaboration with institutions.
More and more the street artist of the 21st century works in the studio and his works are now serigraphies, canvases, sculptures. It is represented by a gallery and its works can be exhibited in museums and institutions. With the Post-Street Art Something new was born that in the coming years will be defined as more and more. Post-Street Artists are all those artists who starting from Mr. Brainwash On then they maintain aesthetic and street art values but without respecting their closest constraints, they no longer operate in illegality, they collaborate with public administrations, they are represented by art galleries and are part of the system. In this area we find Stefano Alvino today. His formation and artistic path have been multifaceted, from music to figurative art, in different expressions. But for several years Stefano Alvino, thirty -three years old from Alzano Lombardo, has dedicated himself to the painting of works of contemporary art, who These days have arrived in New York, at Galeria Azur, and in the coming weeks they will also be at the Biennale dell’Arte and design in Florence.
“I have always done art -I start to tell Alvino -. Since 2006 I dedicate myself to painting making graffiti: I have made it for several municipalities and speakers, I also collaborated with the Youth Project of Alzano for a long time”.
From the Alvino wall he then moved on to the canvas: “It wanted a few years -he admits -, but I was increasingly convinced that the drawing on the wall deteriorates too early, for the atmospheric agents but also for the writings left by chance by the passing people. I was a little demolished, I thought of letting go, until I thought of leaving the can to take the brush in hand”.
In 2023 he participated for the first time in the Florence Biennale, bringing the work that is currently exhibited in the entrance hall of the Library of Alzano, “Elefante Filippo”. “I carry on two lines of subjects: one is that of angry animals with humans, in league with him, the other is that of the fantastic or mythological characters, taken from folklore”.
Today at the top of his artistic journey there is the landing in New York -for the will of the collector entrepreneur Francesco Bombelli-, in the gallery located a stone’s throw from the twin towers, where Alvino exhibits until June 7, 2025 the “Godzilla Pop” and a new version of one of his first works, “Il Silvione”, A pop portrait of Silvio Berlusconi’s face. “I had made it the first time for the Milanese entrepreneur who has always supported me, Francesco Bombelli – explains Alvino -. We stayed on the phone for days every evening, exchanging ideas and photos to make his painting unique. He himself suggested that I bring this work to New York, so I painted a second version, on gold background “.
Behind the choice of Godzilla, however, there is the fact that “it is one of my favorite childhood films, as well as being linked to the city of New York”.
In the next month of October Alvino will return to the Biennale of Florence, dedicated this year to the duality between light and darkness. “I will make for this occasion a work that will be a tribute to Bergamo and the Bergamo”, anticipates, without being able to precisely reveal the subject precisely.
Now it seemed useful to me to involve the artist Stefano Alvino with a series of questions. Here is the interview.
What were your beginnings in street art? “My first steps in the street art date back to 
Second average, when during the school lessons I tried to draw simple, almost elementary graffiti paper on paper. I fascinated that world capable of giving life and color to the gray and dull walls of the cities. Graffitism has always accompanied me, influencing my lifestyle, my way of dressing and also the graphic work that I have done for years. At the beginning I collaborated with my friends, the “Crew”, for the “Youth Project” of Alzano Lombardo, painting various legal walls. At the same time I loved to photograph the most beautiful graffiti in Bergamo, finding them in ever new and suggestive corners, and then mount them in real music videos accompanied by my favorite music, which I published on my YouTube channel “.
How do you live the chapter of the themes of street art in correlation With the New York pop art pop art? “I live the themes of street art as a natural evolution of New York pop art: both arise from the need to break the boundaries between art and life. If pop art has raised the ordinary to symbol, the street art brings it back to the streets, making it part of the urban landscape, alive and imperfect. Since she has admired the graffiti, studying them almost without realizing it: Spread the color, the stylized shapes that knew how to say everything with the necessary strait, and this thing fascinated me and still fascinates me.
What projects for the future do you think you can do? “In the near future, I will be busy with a new painting made for the Biennale of Florence: a tribute to my Bergamo and the city of Florence that will host me. Looking back later, I would like to bring my subjects and characters beyond the canvas, exploring the design applied to furnishing and daily use objects. Translating my style into functional forms would be a natural extension of my path: a direct and concrete way to make my aesthetics live in new contexts”.
Carlo Franza