BERNI, Mini Cooper

A fast growing Swiss artist, he approached hip hop culture in '93 thanks to “Beat Street”, “Wild Style and documentaries such as“ Style Wars ”. Berni enters the writing environment initially with the Lana tag, increasingly fascinated by the world of bombing, tags and throw-ups on abandoned suburban walls. From documentaries to fanzines like Tribe and AL, from urban experiences with the first crews to meeting big names like Cope2 and George Sen1, Berni acquires a deep legacy of this suburban and metropolitan world that will influence his journey on canvas over the years. subsequent.

His first works, very rare among collectors and with a strong hyper-realistic imprint, portray the metropolitan world of his first experiences on the wall. From New York to Los Angeles, from Milan to Berlin. However, the pictorial and emotional dimension in which Berni finds the same self-affirmation component of graffiti on the wall dates back to the stylistic path of the last two years. Through layers of glue, plaster, spray and acrylic, he reproduces the wall on canvas by adding graffiti and stencils, gluing and tearing posters, dirtying the surfaces as if they were worn by time. And it is in these underground works that Berni finds his way, the feeling of breaking the rules and disregarding the laws, flooded with memories, beyond any imposed limit. It is present in private collections throughout Europe, New York and Miami. He has exhibited in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France.