Murales | Andrea Pazienza

The work of Andrea, which began in a painting context, later found its full expression in the smaller publishing format: comic pages and small cartoons published in magazines. However, he never lost his taste for large formats, also trying his hand at murals, panel paintings on a grand scale and very large canvases.

The Battle of Hoplites and Animals

On May 2, 1987, during the 4^th Comics Fair held at the Mostra d’Oltremare in Naples, Andrea Pazienza improvised a performance on the wall of one of the pavilions. Armed with a brush and a can of paint, he brought to life a battle of hoplites and animals, a painting more than seven meters by three, made without any preparatory drawing. […]

The equestrian zanardi in cesena

In June 1984, Andrea, together with some students from the Zio Feininger comics school in Bologna, created in Cesena an imposing work depicting Zanardi in a theatrical and visionary pose: bare-chested, arched on a rearing horse, clutching a large spiral shell from which water gushes. More than a mural in the […]

UNDER THE BRAZILIAN SKY

Andrea also left a taste of his art in Brazil, during a trip he made in the spring of 1988. Starting in March of that year, the magazine Linus began including a curious color booklet in an unusual strip format. It was called AVAJ, an acronym formed from the initials of the four artists involved […]