Exit Enter
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Exit Enter is a Tuscan artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he focused on abstraction and gestural painting. In 2013 he walked out of the studio and started painting on walls. He wanted the work to reach people who would never go to a gallery. He has been doing both since, painting abstraction on canvas and painting figures in the street.
His most recognizable figure is the Little Man, a character drawn in minimal, stylized lines, often flying, falling, connecting or escaping. It started as a sign, simple and instinctive, and became a way to talk about migration, consumerism, conflict and mass tourism with irony and without weight. He says he is drawn to addressing serious themes with a light language.
Alongside the Little Man he has developed parallel bodies of work including Urban Languages, Cieli and Urban Monsters. He collects visual fragments from the city, textures, tags, accidental marks, and brings them back into his paintings. He lives and works in Tuscany and makes murals, workshops and projects internationally.
