Walter Molli

Walter Molli : www.waltermolli.com
Born in Naples on 10/October/1984 Died in Genoa on 22/August/2019
Walter Molli was an artist rooted in the writing and aerosol writing culture. Around 2000 he approached the graffiti world, getting in touch with a flickling and artistic community.
A first synthesis of his artistic path arrived with the choice of his studies, enrolling in the Faculty of Architecture (path concluded with the degree in 2013).
In addition to numerous graffiti conventions partecipation, Molli taked part to his very first art collective exhibitions, thus experimenting varied techniques, from oil painting to acrylics, from watercolor to spray, from photography to digital printing.
He spent a year in Spain (Granada, 2008) and subsequent 2 years in France (Lyon, 2014-15).
In 2014 his first solo exhibition in France opened an exhibition path through wich Molli matured a pictorial identity centered on the use of common elements as a key to deeper and unconscious level of interpretation.The final part of his life, Walter  worked in Naples, his pictorial research ranged from the study of portrait and figure to a work of photographic cataloging and subsequent architectural composition, without abandoning the inspiration coming from the practice of graffiti and street art.Walter's oil paintings, watercolors and artistic prints have been acquired in private collections in many cities around the world, Italy, Lyon (France), Lausanne (Switzerland), Spain, USA etc.
At the end of 2016 Walter Molli started an hard fight against a bad evil, which unfortunately took him away in August 2019.His Parents Dino and Agnese, his brother Fabio and his partner Anna are spreading his art with love.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONSINTRUDERS - curated by ShowDesk, PAN Palazzo delle Arti of Naples, Via Dei Mille, 60 - Naples - Italy - 13 October / 22 October 2017DecaDance - critical text by Fabio Mangone - Piero Renna Contemporary Art, Via Nuova Pizzofalcone n. 2 - Naples - Italy - 17 March / 30 April 2017International Prize for Peace and Nonviolence  - curated by Massimiliano Alberico Grasso -Mahatma Gandhi Center - Monteleone (FG) - March 2017Mea Culpa - Cloister of the Municipal House of Monteleone di Puglia, 28 July / 6 August 2016.Migrations - curated by Simona Perchiazzi, Agora demA, Via S. Brigida, Naples - Italy - March 24th-8 April 2016INTRUDERS - curated by Massimiliano Alberico Grasso, Gino Ramaglia - Via Broggia 9 - 10, Naples Italy 18 March / 31 March 2016HUNTER / HUNTED - curated by Fabio Sacchettini, A01 Fine rt Gallery, Naples - Italy - May 22/ 10 June 2015City Hunters - Artigone, Lyon - France - 22 December 2014/29 January 2015Trains - 81 Store, Lyon - France - 9 May / 30 June 2014

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Artkeys Prize 2019 - curated by Blow-Up and Agropoli municipality - Cilenzto National Park, Vallo of Diano and the Albumi at the Angevin Aragonese Castle of Agropoli - 5/13 October 2019 Self-portraits portraits - by Luciana Mascia, catalog by Clementina Gily Reda - Pio Monte della Misericordia, via dei Tribunali 253 - Naples, 11 July / 10 October 2019.Verba Volant Scripta MANET - Archaeological Museum Molo Brin - Olbia, 1 June / 31 July 2019Krampus - Paper demons - edited by Valentina Virgili and Beatrice Spizzichini, OFFICINENOVE -Rome, 15/22 December 2017AstrAzione - edited by Clara Giordano, Municipal Multi-purpose Center - Marigliano (NA) - April 21 / 5 May 2017I write about the Walls, Museo Crocetti - Rome - 3/14 September 2016ABSTRACTION 2016, Galerie Art & Emotion - Lausanne (CH) - 28 May / 25 June 2016Inaguration de l'Atelier Garage, Atelier Gaage - rue D'Anvers, Lyon 69007 (France) - April 4, 2016Tribute to Totò fifty years after his death - International exhibition of contemporary art itinerante, curated by Enzo Angiuoni and Gabriella Taddeo, (traveling) - March 5, 2016 - (in progress)SuiteA01 - curated by Fabio Sacchettini, Pomigliano Jazz Festival - Cimitile (NA) / Pomigliano d'Arco (Na) - 2/13 September 2015DeFacto # 0, curated by Laurent Martinez and Street Art Lyon, POLE PIXEL - Villeurbanne (LYON)- France 27/29 June 2015Pena CAPITAL - Crack Festival, curated by Mirko Pierri & A.Dna Project, Forte Prenestino - Rome - Italy 25/28 June 2015Spectrum, ASCI film school, Naples - 20/23 February 2014Animals, Atelier Francesca Strino, Naples - 9 January 2014To Whom May it Concern - Other forms - by Leonardo di Mauro, Faculty of Architecture,University of Naples "Federico II" (NA) - Italy 7 January / 7 February 2012

STREET ART PERFORMANCES

Gian Maria Volontè Festival - Rome 2016Willoke Streetart festival - Monteleone di Puglia (FG), 2016Blue Flow - Ventotene - May 2016Oblafest - Naples, 2016Redbull Canvas cooler (Comicon) - Naples 2016In the Wall We Trust (IWWT) - Airola (BN), 2015Crack Festival - Rome, 2015Battipaglia Liberation Day (SA), 2015

GRAFFITI CONVENTIONS (major)

Step One Jam - Pomigliano d'Arco, 2016Above the clouds - Napoli, 2015Still Alive - Napoli, 2015Back to the future - Napoli 2011 - 2012Just writing my name - Napoli 2009 - 2010TRUE SKILLS - Corsico (MI), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014JUMP - Terlizzi (Ba), 2006- 2010Circumwriting - Barra (Na), 2005PERSONAL PUBBLICATIONINTRUDERS reasearch project of the artist and the architect Walter Molli collectd in pubblicaton cureted by ShowDesk (ISBN 788894211214).
PRIZESArtkeys Prize 01 - Painting Section - [finalist] - 2019Prisma Art Prize - Painting Section - [shortlisted] - 2019Marchionni Prize - Painting Section - [shortlisted] - 2019"20 Artists for Manet" Award - [winner] - 2019