Milan, Orticanoodles reinterprets the portrait of étoile Aida Accolla in a large mural

A great new work of street art has been created in the heart of the Isola district in Milan: it is a reworking of the sculptural portrait that was made by the 20th-century artist Francesco Messina (Linguaglossa, 1900 - Milan, 1995) of the famous étoile and his muse Aida Accolla. The mural is located at 5 Via Borsieri and was created by the Orticanoodles collective, in close connection with Inside, the street artists’ first solo exhibition in a museum space, at the Francesco Messina Studio Museum, which has been extended until March 21, 2021.

A tribute that follows those proposed in the exhibition, dedicated Carla Fracci and Luciana Savignano, subjects dear to the sculptor, which the collective takes up using their own pictorial language. The mural was executed with the spolvero technique and is a hypnotic succession of juxtaposed strips of color from which the dancer’s face emerges, in shades of gray and pink, Intersected with flowers and plants, in a synergistic exchange between the human body and nature, the mural is a triumph of color.

This is not the first time that Orticanoodles has experimented in monumental dimensions with fragmented images like the one just created: examples are the latest mural works completed in the Ortica neighborhood as part of Orme. Ortica Memoria; To the Seven Arts at the Martinitt Theater, Dialogues in Via Corelli, and the Madonnina in Via Pitteri all realized in 2020.

The themes of the solo exhibition thus find their way into mural art.

The collective will also present the 1:10 scale model of the mural, which will be visible by reservation by contacting the Wunderkammern gallery: it is an autonomous work, executed on the wooden laths already brought to the exhibition, which plays and reflects on the prerogatives of urban art, also through the presence of the graffiti actually present on the city wall.

Image: Orticanoodles, Portrait of Aida Accolla (from Francesco Messina). Courtesy Orticanoodles and Wit Design.

Milan, Orticanoodles reinterprets the portrait of étoile Aida Accolla in a large mural

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