Date: 23 – 31 March
Venue: Central and Western District
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The mural “Polo Stellato“, which Artist UNO will create as part of the HKWALLS Festival, evokes the many meanings of Marco Polo’s life and experience.
An adventurous journey towards distant lands; around the figure of the great traveller, an explosion of bright colours dance on the wall, evoking the enchantment of sunrise and sunset in remote lands. Migratory birds release themselves into the air, symbols of freedom and discovery, while delicate origami unfold as messengers of new horizons to explore.
The geometric patterns, intricate and lively, recall the contrasts and differences between the cultures that Marco Polo encountered during his travels, transporting the viewer into a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours that reflect the diversity of the world.
The masterfully woven wefts and tapestries evoke the fabrics and precious Venetian artefacts and those that Marco Polo discovered along the trading routes and suggest the richness and beauty of the different cultures which he came in contact with during his trips.
About UNO
UNO (@idontcareaboutuno) is an artist who has lived and worked in Rome since the early 2000s. His artistic production is characterized by the use of different techniques such as decoupage, collage, the application of stencils and painting with spray cans, all classic tools that belong to Street Art. Assimilating and updating the lessons of Warhol, Debord and Rotella, through infinite repetitions and the frequent use of bright colors, UNO plays with advertising images and transforms them. Focusing on the face of a famous chocolate advertisement, he transforms it into an icon of the possible revolution of the individual against mass society. A face freed from the role assigned to it by its creators and which paradoxically becomes the ideal tool for criticism of the advertising practice itself. UNO reinforces his message with these techniques, and reminds us of the individual and his uniqueness, continually manipulated until lost in the multiplicity of society.
One hundred thousand, no one, UNO.