V3rbo

V3rbo

Italy Bergamo

Italy, Bergamo
V3rbo was born in 1977. Besides the use of painting techniques, typical of the graffiti culture in which he was raised in the 90s and the first drawings on a computer, made with D-paint4 on a Commodore Amiga 500, the artist has introduced new visual rules celebrating writing and investigating its medial drifts.

Beginning from an extensive study on lettering (such as the 2003 project Lettering Studio Cross The Matrix), he has moved on to using other tools such as video projectors and FLxER, a software that he has been co-developing since 2002 and that he uses to perform as a visual artist in electronic music venues, but also spontaneously on the street. His Videoincursioni (or Videoraids in English), for example, were chosen on one occasion as a campaign for the international promotion of Firefox.

In other instances, the search for the sign brings him to contrasting performative acts such as the permanent site-specific work /BAN.King for Intesa Sanpaolo in Bonola, where he engaged 60 executives as a performative medium representing a celebratory parallel of the company in the world of writing.

In recent years, he has devoted himself to the use of virtual and augmented reality tools and artificial intelligence, with which he has created a number of works. These include the 2019 live performance Untilted.mvp at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and the 2020 solo exhibition Metabugs in VR at Artefiera in Bologna, where viewers were immersed in three-dimensional mecha-insects made up of letters. This is because the core of V3rbo's work is the development of letters according to the rules of aerosol art and style writing.

Among the many international exhibitions in which he has participated are the 2009 Paris exhibition at Million Cornette de Saint Cyr Auction for Million & Associés at La Cigale; the 2008 collective exhibitions Street Art Buenos Aires at the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Street Art, From Graffiti to Painting, Italy–Brazil at the Museum of Contemporary Art in São Paulo, Brazil; the 54th Venice Biennale – Padiglione Italia Lombardia; and the 2017 collective exhibition Walk the Line at the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce in Genoa.

The artist has appeared in several publications, ranging from magazines and historical books to international reviews.

Over the years, V3rbo has also been commissioned to develop works and viral campaigns for well-known brands.

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