Flycat Y One Luca Massironi

FLYCAT

Writer and leading figure of the International Hip Hop/Graffiti Art scene.
Born in Milan in 1970. The strong emotional charge that, in a thirty years career, has always distinguished Flycat, led him beyond those that can be pre-defined patterns of Graffiti Art, in domains that range from photography to graphics, from music to poetry and journalism, from design to video, art and fashion. In this last field he collaborated with Levi’s, Adidas, Nike, Dimensione Danza, Enrico Coveri, Les Copains (he became also the face for Les Copains’s man winter collection 2012/2013).
His career began in the '80s; in the early ‘90s he is confronted with various international artists, especially the New York City Street Art avant-garde; in 1995 he joined officially the cultural and artistic Chicano movement of East Los Angeles, California, where he spent several years working with some of the most famous West Coast artists, among which Chaz Bojorquez, Retna and the poet Luis J. Rodriguez. In 2010, the artist Rammellzee (USA - 1960 - 2010) bestowed upon him the honour of being one of his disciple, with other few artists in the world.
Flycat’s artworks have been presented in several personal and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He...

I was born in Milan, Italy on August 19th 1970. When I was 13 years old, I fell madly in love with what the world referred to as Graffiti Art. I do not remember the day when it exactly happened, but I can say that, in that precise moment, my life began, the life of FLYCAT. I paint, design, assemble, cut out, paste, make proses, but essentially what I do is “writing”. Writing, to me, is the perfect alchemic conjunction of three elements: History, Tradition, Passion. I am one of the official spokesmen of an artistic Movement known as Ikonoklast Panzerism and Gothic Futurism created in 1979 in the city of New Gotham by the Grand Master Rammellzee (1960 - 2010). On February 20th 2010 I became his disciple and I was appointed, with the grade “Y1”, defender of the 25th letter. Now my duty is to operate on the 26 Letters which compose the new Latin-Roman Alphabet. Starting from the idea of the letter as autonomous entity that has been set free, my research has followed a new path. I have developed my special vision that I have named Fvtvri$mo Caele$te.
The traditional dichotomic concept of “signified” and “signifier”, with the Celestial Futurism, fades away. After the armed letter, the Celestial Letters finally come to life.

Personali:
2016- "IN THE SIGN OF THE LION", Casa Milan Gallery, Milano
2016- "FORMAZIONE FLYCAT", Key Gallery, Milano
2015- "RISE UP! la Città che non dorme", MUBA, Rotonda della Besana, Milan
2014- “FUTURISMO CELESTE- 30 X FLYCAT”, Spazio Artepassante Repubblica, Milano
2014- “Signs of Anarchy”, Fuori Salone, Milano
2013- "Flycat", in occasione della giornate Tricolore, Palazzo della Regione, Milano.
2013- "SKRIPTORIA" Nuovo Rinascimento Scrittorio", Manni Art Gallery, Lido di Venezia
2012- "FLYCAT per RADO/VOGUE FASHION'S NIGHT OUT", La Rinascente, Milano
2012- "LETTERISMO MANIERISTA-MANNERIST LETTERISM", Artouverture, Milano
2012- "ECO-LOGICA", FuoriSalone, Milano
2012- "LES COPAINS", Milano
2011- "GROUND ZERO", spazio Basile, Caserta
2011- "GROUND ZERO", spazio T-Gallery, Milano
2011- "TWELVE", spaziOREA MALIA', Milano
2010- "Riders on the Storm", Fondazione Plart, Napoli
2010- "Le Strade della Rinascita",Hotel dei Marsi,Avezzano.2007- “FLYCAT 2007”, Galleria Blanchaert, Milano.
2003- “Todas Mis Flores”, Mondrian Art Cafè, Milano.
2002- “Scrambled”, Levi’s Flag store, Milano.
2002- “Mestizaje”, Show Pony, Echo Park, Los Angeles,CA.
2001- “Cocktail di Stili”, Piola, Jesolo.
2001- “One’s for the trouble, two...