MP5

MP5 are Italian artist, muralist and illustrator widely known for their incisive black and white style.

MP5 work with different techniques and mediums: from illustrations for newspapers and magazines to political posters, from drawings to video/audio animations. Their background is settled in the Italian and European underground scene and counterculture. MP5 design posters for political demonstrations, concerts, theatre festivals and their public mural works can be seen in England, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, U.S.A, Hong Kong.

Among their participations are La Condition Publique (Roubaix, France, 2017), LE M.U.R de Saint Etienne (France, 2016) and the installation Pandrogeny at Theatre National de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium, 2017). Their illustrations and murals were published on newspapers and magazines including Le Monde Diplomatique,  Internazionale, Linus, Liberazione, Il Male, Blue, Animals, Il Mucchio, Vogue, Wooster Collective, Juxtapoz, Cosmopolitan China.

They worked with several European publishers like the Italian LaTerza, Mondadori, the Spanish Norma editorial, the French La Boite À Boulle, the German Schreiber & Leser. MP5’s artworks were exhibited in relevant international festivals and art institutions, such as the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna in Rome, the XII Biennale of European and Mediterranean Young Artists, the Triennale di Milano, the Macro Museum in Rome, La Condition Publique de Roubaix, the Theatre of Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

MP5 have collaborated with  Wunderkammern gallery in Italy, with the Lazarides gallery in the UK, with the designer and gallerist Agnès B and with the director Abel Ferrara. They also collaborated with the musician and composer Teho Teardo for the theatre show Phantasmagorica. They represented Italy for the project La Tour 13 in Paris.

In 2016 their mural The Root of Evil was chosen as one of the world’s 20th most beautiful murals according to Wide Walls, one of the most renowned communities in the field of street art. MP5 published three books: Changes (ed. GRRRzetic 2016), Palindromi (ed. GRRRzetic 2012) and Acqua storta (ed. Meridiano Zero 2010, also published in Germany as “Der Frevel am Altar der Heiligen Klara”), for which they won the prize as the best Italian drawer at The Napoli Comicon.

They are currently working together with Gucci on “Chime for Change”, a global campaign for gender equality.