ART AND CREATIVITY AS A WAY OF LIFE
They are IED graduates, and today they express their creative talent in shows, exhibitions and other events. Here are three IED Alumni who have made of art and creativity their raison d’être
NO CURVES
He has been making extraordinary works using adhesive tape for years. NO CURVES, a pseudonym behind which hides one of the most famous tape-artists on an international level. What for many is considered a work tool, thanks to the creativity of NO CURVES becomes a creative tool used to produce works of art admired all over the world. NO CURVES’s art has been chosen by some brands for their advertising campaigns, fashion events and urban art, and it has been exhibited in some of the main Italian and international galleries and museums. His work will be exhibited at Spazio Eventi of Palazzo Pirelli in Milan, with an inauguration in January 2022 (read the news).
ANDREA CRESPIBorn in 1992, Andrea Crespi lives and works between Switzerland and Italy and is today one of the most talented and promising visual artists. Graduated from IED Milano in Industrial Design, he then chose to focus on the worlds of art, communication and visual arts, with the aim of investigating and developing different media and themes in his original style, such as optical illusions, social transformation and digital revolution. This way he expressed the results of that investigation and research in works that interpret contemporary cultural changes, while often being involved in charitable initiatives. Among his latest works, there is the collaboration with Bulgari during the Fashion Week in Milan. Now he is working on his first show (read the interview).
MASSIMO SIRELLI“For me, art and creativity constitute life. It is not a path that I have chosen but it has chosen me", Massimo Sirelli told us with great emotion. A IED Alumnus graduated in 2003 from IED Torino, Sirelli has approached visual arts with graffiti and street art since his youth. Then come the collaborations for prestigious advertising projects for national and international brands, the foundation of the creative studio Dimomedia, and his works appearing in important publications. Since 2008 he has also been a teacher at IED. A talent always on the move, Sirelli feels he has "the energy of a neophyte” who still wants to learn and experiment. Upcoming projects? "Definitely sharing all my experience with young people", but also the desire to "meet communities and trigger a short circuit of change".
Talking of Art and IED Alumni, if you missed the articles on Marzia Boaglio, Alex Dorici, Anna Shvets and Babaev Kamoljon, you can read them here.