Lucio Bolognesi, known as Basik, works in Rimini, Italy. His visual language combines a graffiti background with graphic forms and influences from medieval, Renaissance and religious art.
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Lucio “Basik" Bolognesi lives and works in Rimini, Italy. Basik’s style mixes his graffiti background with a graphic approach to painting, which is inspired by Medieval and Renaissance art. His work also looks at distinctive traits in popular culture and antique religious imagery.
Lucio, who has been active since the beginning of the Nineties as a graffiti writer, has developed his personal style gradually switching from spray paint to a broader range of media over the years, mixing elements of his writer’s background with inspirations from Medieval art and Renaissance onward, as well as from modern and contemporary art movements and avant gardes.
His late figurative works especially focus on hands’ gestures and take inspiration from distinctive traits in popular culture, religious imagery and symbolism.
1 piece across the festival years
Basik’s 2021 mural honoured Oliver Plunkett, the Archbishop whose life linked religious service, education and persecution. His story has a particular connection with County Louth. Replaced in 2025, this interpretation is preserved in the collection’s archive.
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