Willow
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Bio
Born in 1978 in Milano, he graduated in 2000 at the Comics and Illustration School in Milan. With his real name-Filippo Bruno- he's been collaborating for 10 years with publishing houses and companies, advertisement agencies and with his graphic work and also with gadgets and design objects business. With the pseudonim "Willow" since 2008, he makes canvas by enamel, graphic works,vinyl toys with a POP inspiration.
Work
Willow takes us in a parallel, densely popolulated world, made of plain colours and a precise, linear, continuous drawing, where each component has got its close lines - but in any case therer’s some space for everyone! This world is populated by very particular beings, midway between micro-organisms and virus, who talk to each other by means of balloons; they don’t express themselves by using comic strip’s coded onomatopoeias, but rather by emitting sounds which identify them. In this overpopulated world social challenges don’t lack and it’s interesting to see how in a rebellion to the established order the littlest beings are those who remonstrate against the tentacled leading figures who are afasic before such verbal boldness. The images that Willow show us are seemingly ludic, but thanks to the underlying formal seriousness which characterizes them, they are endowed with undoubted communicative power and a great, amusing glamour.
