“Roots” was inspired by the words, CHANGE THROUGH INNOVATION and FUTURE CHANGE. Here, the artist wants Romentino observers to perceive and experience a concept of the future to come – one at the crossroads of technology, innovation and change. Esthetically and architecturally speaking, his work is steeped in conversation with the building itself; rendering a corner wall as if it were a single, flat surface. His design looks to advance a futuristic and contemporary vision, bending the very meaning of building architecture itself; making it at once not only functional, but also able to capture one’s attention and spark emotion and the contemplation of passersby.
Joys relies on his traditional color pallet which in turn, is quite in harmony with the surroundings; creating a dialogue between the wall, the trees and the grassy areas. This particular work builds out from the corner of the wall to ultimately encompass his name, ‘Joys’. Every line has been conceived to rest uninterrupted by the surrounding structural elements of doors and windows.
Joys
Cristian Bovo – known as Joys – one of the main protagonists on the Italian geometrical–structural art scene. A world-renowned artist, his works are exhibited across the globe. Born in Padua in 1974, Joys launched his artistic career in the 1990s when – like many ‘writers’ – he would write his name across walls – focusing the attention on his particular lettering style. What started out as a call into existence, became essential to calling forth an evolution.
He quickly expanded his artistic endeavors, enriching them by both depth and in its vein of expression. His study went well beyond the two-dimensional, acquiring over time a flexibility, dictated by the space in which he worked and by the use that an unsuspecting and involuntary public made of it.
Inhabiting both the underground and more conventional realms, Joys’ novel research is highly personal, thanks in part to his intense practice of lettering: Layered forms over time take on even grander enhancement in terms of levels and lines. He creates impossible labyrinths where nothing is left to chance – with the forms strictly obeying precise rules of logic and geometry.
For year, Joys has re-imagined his language in sculpture as well; utilizing diverse materials while still maintaining his unique and unmistakable style.
His public works and murals have been exhibited across Europe, in the Americas and as far afield as China, Taiwan, Australia and Africa.