Film Commission Torino Piemonte

At nighttime, a random guy approaches an IGPDecaux backlit merchandiser wearing a high-visibility bib. Is a second: tlank, flop, swish , sbam! The case’s metallic noise precedes by a few instants the internal dazzling neon light. Where before there was one of the many advertisements which lead us to purchase, now there is a message that forces us to reflect, almost to laugh. The morning after the following headlines appear in the newspaper: “The Banksy of Turin strikes again: Art or vandalism?” “Here the new work of the Street Artist Andrea Villa who gets politicians pilloried.” But who is he, and why are his works so striking? Andrea Villa is a Street Artist for the most distracted, a conceptual artist for salon critics and an inveterate provocateur to politicians less accustomed to confrontation. But also, and above all, he is a thief: a gentleman thief who takes care not to spoil the cases or urban decor and that never replaces advertising of small productive realities with his works.

Andrea Villa steals space from conformism by offering us a space of thought. On the other hand, Picasso said that artists copy, geniuses steal, didn’t he?