In Brescia, a street art work by Zed1 about renewable energy

A few weeks before the start of 2023, when Brescia and Bergamo will be Italian Capitals of Culture, a monumental work of street art dedicated to theenvironment and sustainability is born in Brescia. In fact, Ci pensa il Sole (The Sun Thinks), a large 240-square-meter mural signed by Zed1 (Marco Burresi; Florence, 1977), was inaugurated today, leaving in Brescia a work of public art that looks to a sustainable future, promoted by the City of Brescia on a project by Paradigma Italia, a leading company in the renewable energy sector, with the coordination of Brescia Mobilità SpA. The work, which winds along Via Cremona for a length of 58 meters and a height of 4 meters, is a new “fairy tale” by the artist known on an international scale as, precisely, “the artist who tells fairy tales on walls,” and tells a story of clean energy and sustainability: the story of the sun, a symbolic journey through the evolution of Planet Earth.

A tale of renewable energy and possible futures, drawn through spray rollers, paints and brushes, to speak with the language of art about energy crises and global warming. As Zed1 himself states, “I consider my art as shared therapy, as a gentle fairy tale that goes beyond the rough reality we live every day. Whenever we have to deal with an unpleasant condition I try to exorcise it in a gentle image, and the most beautiful thing that can happen to me is that others see themselves in my stories, glimpsing a solution and the desire to build a better future for us and for those who will come after us.”

The artist has always imprinted an expressive and dreamy force in his works, with a surrealist spirit, and it is in Ci pensa il Sole that Zed1 decides to illustrate the fable of our planet by beginning with what is also the conclusion of the story: the power of solar energy. The result is a symbolic journey through the evolution of the planet, in which Zed1 accompanies us: from the first animals, through the dinosaurs, from the human-serpent who first disrupted the natural order of things by tearing down a tree and planting a chimney, a symbol of the industrial age, to the primates. In the course of the tale, man-made fumes squeeze the entire planet like a hand. Finally, it is the Sun that helps a little girl extinguish the flames enveloping the world, underscoring the fundamental message of the work, which was born out of Paradigma Italia’s own commitment: the importance of solar energy and renewable energy, especially for the new generations.

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In Brescia, a street art work by Zed1 about renewable energy

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