While waiting for Banksy's next work (will it be on the coronavirus?), here is how the street reacted to the emergency

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has also had an effect on street art. Meanwhile, the emergency has unleashed a lot of Banksy imitators, especially in England (in London in particular), where local newspapers are publishing photos of “revisitations” of popular images by the Bristol-based street artist, or works heavily inspired by his language: so here are children watering rainbows, logos of the National Health Service, the National Health Service, with the “S” transformed into that of Superman, and again nurses with the ubiquitous rainbows. Even in Italy, towards the end of March, a mural painting popped up in San Bassano, in the province of Cremona, featuring Banksy’s Balloon girl who, instead of releasing the balloon, makes the virus fly away (a message of hope, as if to say that we will get rid of the coronavirus sooner or later). Shall we bet that Banksy’s next work (or one of his future works) will also be about the Covid-19 pandemic?

But there are also other initiatives from the world of street art. For example, for April 13, the female street artist collective Lediesis, which in December became the protagonist of a successful campaign that filled the streets of Florence with images of the “superheroes of solidarity” (from Martin Luther King to Liliana Segre, from Greta Thunberg to Falcone and Borsellino), is launching the idea of a Street Art Flash Mob for 9 p.m. on Monday, April 13, Easter Monday: the idea is to project the most famous street art images on the city’s walls (of course, those with projectors will be able to do so), while in Padua, writer Andre Roulé has launched a call for street artists to provide works to be auctioned to raise funds to be donated to the intensive care unit of Padua Hospital (the initiative is called D-Sign of light and you can participate in the auction until tomorrow evening by logging on to www. d-signoflight.co.uk.

And in the meantime, images of street artists interpreting the theme are spreading around the world: those who focus on the dystopia we are living in, those who focus on isolation and the sense of alienation that comes with it, those who issue encouraging messages, and those who renew the call to stay home (in Berlin, for example, the buzzword is #StayTheFuckHome, or “stay in your fucking house”), those who review sanitation regulations, those who reinterpret masterpieces of art history (artist Lionel Stanhope, for example, in London added a surgical mask to Jan van Eyck’sMan with the Red Turban, and our own TvBoy instead did the same with the protagonists of Hayez’s Kiss ), and so on. Street art, in short, has certainly not been unprepared for the emergency. Below is a collection of images on the topic of “street art and coronavirus.”

TvBoy’s Kiss

Milan. Ph. Credit Andrea Fasani/EPA

London

Los Angeles, work by artist Pony Wave. Ph. Credit Mario Tama/Getty

Pompeii, work by Nello Petrucci

Bryne (Norway), work by Pøbel

Mumbai, oepra by Tyler

London, work by Lionel Stanhope

Los Angeles

Melbourne

While waiting for Banksy's next work (will it be on the coronavirus?), here is how the street reacted to the emergency

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