Mr. Savethewall. The Story

Catalog created for the exhibition “MR. SAVETHEWALL. The Story”, edited by Chiara Canali, 7 – 30 August 2015, San Pietro in Atrium, As.

Mr. Savethewall is a Como artist who acts according to the method of drift and situationist détournement to propose works that interpret themes and customs of contemporary society in a playful or polemical key., ironic or irreverent. A "deconstruction and reconstruction of linguistic codes" that Mr.. Savethewall operates through the methods and techniques of Street Art intervention, first and foremost the use of the stencil on supports of urban origin and consumer goods such as cardboard, wrapping paper, wood, metal, recycled material.
As his pseudonym says, Mr. Savethewall does not paint on the walls but respects them and "saves" them by fixing his works temporarily with four pieces of yellow adhesive tape at the corners. His first works, attached to the city walls of Como, they were detached from the passers-by to be framed: this aroused the interest and curiosity of the art system and Mr.. Savethewall has made its entrance into art galleries and public spaces.