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Italian Daily Newspaper "La Stampa" - March 15^th

This article was about the Solo Exhibition at the Globart Gallery in Acqui Terme (AL) on March 19 ^th 2016

In Acqui, the Art of Lady Be, the inventor of Mosaic 2.0

Posing Letizia Lanzarotti, aka Lady Be, in front of a Che Guevara where instead of mosaic tiles, there are pieces of plastic. Audrey Hepburn and Picasso, Dali and the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse Tung. Are the icons of the twentieth century to finish on the canvases of young and established) Lady Be that to shape famous faces of contemporary society - politics and art, music and film but not only - an old technique chooses five thousand years: the mosaic. And her real name Lanzarotti Letizia, 26, shows in Europe and the US and a life between Pavia and Rome, has revisited in a modern mosaic, replacing the glass or ceramic tiles, marble or stone with plastic small toys or everyday items. Since 2008, after starting his career in pastel studies and chalks on paper, assembles them to reconstruct faces and silhouettes, as a large and colorful patchwork. After hitting many big cities, Lady Be Saturday will be the GlobArt Gallery in Via Galeazzo 38, Acqui, with an exhibition that bears his name and will remain open until April 10, supported by the company cuvage wines, which for the 'inauguration will offer a toast to 18. The city of Boiling had already had a starter of his revolutionary movement and the pop aftertaste last fall, when the artist had participated in the collective "Marilyn Forever", dedicated to Monroe. He will now have its own space, with 17 works dedicated to some of the best-known figures of the twentieth century. In addition to Marilyn, in various versions (including a colorful cross between the diva and Mickey Mouse), a gallery of famous faces: Picasso, Elvis Presley, Mao, Mozart, Audrey Hepburn, Frida Kahlo, John Lennon, Van Gogh, Batman and even the Beatles, which he dedicated in 2013, a curious performance with four life-size silhouettes of Liverpool musicians, dressed according to his technique. And then, "undress" a small piece at a time, from people passing by, up to let the Beatles appeared completely naked. Narcotics trinkets collage and recycled plastic toys have become the trademark of Lady Be factory, between the critical acclaim that describe his works - on display around the world - as "figurative fine balance." 0144-322706 info. [Dp]