Millo

Millo (Francesco Camillo Giorgino, born 1979 in Mesagne, in the province of Brindisi, Italy) is an Italian street artist known for his murals several storeys high. He attended the scientific high school in Mesagne, then graduated in architecture in Pescara.

Millo turned to mural painting when the economic crisis hit the architecture profession. He came to notice in the early 2010s with large black-and-white murals, often punctuated with touches of colour, depicting poetic, dreamlike urban scenes. In 2014, he won the B.Art competition, which allowed him to paint 13 murals on building fronts in Turin. Working from an aerial lift, he sketches the composition in light grey, then adds the shadows, the colours and the black freehand.

His compositions feature simple characters, often children or anonymous figures, moving through imaginary architecture close to monumental cityscapes. They play on the contrast between the scale of the city and the solitude of those who live in it. A graduate in architecture, Millo gives his works a strong structural dimension, in which buildings and cities become almost characters in their own right.

Millo has painted murals in Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Morocco. His canvases have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Seoul, Berlin, London and Rome.