Museo di Arte Urbana Aumentata
@ Firenze
“Ache” is the short form of Ache77 (born in 1991), a Florentine urban artist of Romanian origins, known for experimenting, provoking, and establishing intense visual dialogues. His normographic masks, created through the stencil technique, take on ritual qualities, transforming the use of color and the choice of surface into true meditative mantras.
According to the formula 1+1=1, studio and street merge into an intimate journey that engages the viewer.
The work “Resilienza” revisits one of his iconic female faces, here created with a three-layer stencil technique in red, black, and white (with the eyes retouched by brush). The gaze, the focal point of the composition, conveys determination and strength, following the viewer and evoking contrasting emotions. The use of yellow, red, and blue serves as a strong—whether conscious or unconscious—reference by the artist to the flag of his homeland.
The work was curated by Street Levels Gallery and created for the Palazzuolo Strada Aperta 2024 festival.
This artwork is no longer visible on the street but remains accessible—also in augmented reality—through the MAUA catalog.
From luminous, color-saturated landscapes, the scene slides into dark, oppressive, and suffocating environments, in a visual alternation that culminates in the image of a woman holding seven swords—symbol of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.
The piece unfolds as a journey into the depths of emotion and the wounds left by violence, but at the same time as a story of strength and resilience: the ability to transform pain into resistance and dignity.
What emerges is an intense and self-aware inner vision, in which beauty remains intact—capable of enduring and unbroken under the weight of suffering.
In this delicate work created in Favara, street artist Alice Pasquini transforms, with a spontaneous and intimate gesture, an old rusted window on Via Miccichè into a poetic fragment of the urban landscape. Conceived during her residency at Farm Cultural Park, the piece pays homage to the female figure, portrayed while drawing, absorbed in her own thoughts.
Through agile brushstrokes, soft chromatic tones, and a restrained yet expressive gesture, Pasquini conveys the full sensitivity and emotional depth of her mark. Beside the figure, a heart shaded between red and black beats as a symbol of emotion and fragility. Seamlessly integrated into the material of the wall, the intervention captures an intimate act within a public space, delicately poised between memory and desire.
Cease-fire originates from Pasquini’s original mural, here reimagined through the evocative power of the musical piece Brothers No More by Brothers No More. The digital reinterpretation transforms the static image into a dynamic visual sequence: explosions, fragments, faces, and details drawn from other works by the artist gradually surface, composing a poetic meditation on conflict.
In its closing scene, the window—the same that frames the real mural—opens as a threshold of hope, a silent yet powerful invitation to cease fire and embrace rebirth.
Amid the narrow alleys of Favara, MOG (Morgana Orsetta Ghini) extends her work Human Forest, allowing it to unfold like an ecosystem in slow yet inexorable propagation. Here, nature is no longer concentrated in a single monumental gesture, but fragments and multiplies, revealing signs, presences, and traces of organic life across the city’s surfaces.
This is a work that speaks of regeneration and anticipation: like sprouts pushing through the cracks in asphalt, MOG’s forms seem to grow directly from the walls themselves, reminding us that even the urban landscape can become fertile ground.
The piece invites viewers to observe what is usually ignored, to perceive the quiet strength of life that persists, that insinuates itself, that resists. Once again, MOG’s artistic gesture — lucid, political, and profoundly human — transforms space into a place of possibility.
A Project by
Concept and Motion Design
Francesca Cianniello
Falling Grace - Brothers No More - 2024
Brothers no more - Brothers no more - 2024
Place des Vosges - Qagliostro - 2021
A Crab's Trip - Qagliostro - 2023
Street Levels Gallery
A testa alta
Farm Cultural Park
MiC - Ministero della Cultura
Unione Europea - NextGenerationEU
