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108 (b. 1978) in Alessandria, his hometown, [1] is an Italian artists in the field of Street Art. 108 has moved from working in traditional graffiti art to painting large and mysterious figures that invade public spaces[2]. He was one of the first writers to use numbers instead of letters for his name[3]. He started to works when he was a kid on the streets of Alessandria with different names. Slowly he vandalized the streets of Milano, Paris, London, Berlin, New York. His first works known by people are enigmatic “blob”-like yellow shapes and it’s his strong intention to make visual chaos. His new works are labyrinths, dead trees, 3D objects and installations but especially black and gloomy shapes[4]. In the last years he took part in a lot of international exhibitions (Nusign 2.4 in Paris[5], Urban Edge Show in Milano[6], Segundo and Tercer Asalto in Zaragoza[7] and in 2007 he was invited to join the project called Walls[8] inside the Biennale di Venezia. During march 2008 he was invited to join Nomadaz [9](a show curated by Pablo Aravena) in Los Angeles with Eltono, Dem, Microbo and other artists to rapresent Europe in U.S.A.
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