Street art as a provocation: Optical 3D illusions called "temporary disruption of normalcy"

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10

The art of this artist causes a lot of controversy. Someone calls his work a provocation, someone - unprofessionalism and stupidity. But there are also those who believe that his work is a breakthrough in street art and his work needs to be implemented in all cities of the world, because it is high time to make gray boring buildings more fun. But both opponents and fans of his work agree on one thing: such street art is simply stunning.

Italian artist Manuel Di Rita, also known as Peeta, is 39 years old. He was born in Padua and currently lives in Venice. Pete has been graffiti art since 1993, for many years he has participated in jams, festivals and art shows around the world. Most of his work is done in the style of anamorphism, both in painting and sculpture. Interestingly, Manuel received his education in product design.

The abstract figures with which Pita paints buildings, as well as free-standing walls and interiors, create bizarre optical illusions. It seems that part of the building crashes into the sky (or does the sky crash into the building?) Manuel achieves visual distortion of surfaces using 3d graffiti.

The artist himself says about his work as follows: “In my pictorial, sculptural and fresco compositions, geometric figures always interact with the environment. In particular, when I paint on walls, my goal is always to create a dialogue with the structural and cultural parameters of the surrounding context. I rearrange the volumes of any surface, thus causing a "temporary violation of normality" in my paintings.

As a result, people who see these wall images have a different understanding of space, and therefore of reality as a whole. Thanks to the anamorphic painting of the Italian artist, traditional forms are transformed, changing from irregular and smooth to geometric solids.

Creating his works, the artist actively uses the programs Illustrator and Fotoshop; it usually takes him three weeks to create each composition.

Internet users, discussing the work of Manuel Di Rita, always argue hotly. Some say that there is no sense in his art, others that there is no professionalism either. Still others retort: “But his bizarre figures simulate those parts of the brain that are usually“sleeping”in a metropolitan resident.

Someone enthusiastically says that they would like to live in a house painted in 3d - they say, it's much more fun. And to someone these multi-colored drawings seem so "loud" that he admits: seeing them every day, as if he would go crazy. But there are definitely no indifferent people.