Filippo Minelli, born 1983 in Brescia, Italy, is a contemporary artist living and working between Barcelona and London, analyzing and searching architecture, politics, communication, and geography to create installations and performances documented through photography and video. Interested in the landscape and public spaces, Minelli initially engaged in unauthorized actions, which made him a pioneer of what was later labeled as ‘street art,’ and then he continued a personal path based on the aesthetics of protest, bringing politics to an anthropological and introspective level by decontextualizing the use of tear gas, reversing the function of flags, and borrowing from the aesthetics of protest slogans. His works have been exhibited worldwide in museums and magazines. www.filipponminelli.com