The famous street artist returns to Campobasso with a magnificent work on the pandemic and the delicate balance between man and nature.

A dystopian scenario of giant pandas that invade a city and destroy everything. A brilliant work, extraordinary in its silent eloquence, which the famous street artist Blu conceived for Draw The Line 2020, the street art festival organized by Malatesta Associati.
The work, created on the façade of the Alphaville cinema in Campobasso, is part of a wider intervention to rearrange the area of ​​the ex-Onmi.

Why are there pandas?
In addition to the wordplay (the term ‘panda’ recalls ‘pandemic’), pandas are a species that originates in the heart of China, from where the current Covid-19 pandemic originated.
Pandas are also large mammals that feed on huge quantities of bamboo and are at risk of extinction precisely because of the destruction of bamboo forests by humans.
It’s a warning: the pandemic we are experiencing is not a coincidence but a direct consequence of our actions on nature.

Brunella Muttillo

Blu, ‘Pandemia’, 2020, cinema Alphaville, Campobasso  (photo from http://blublu.org/b/)