Martina Merlini
Link Magazine, #3, 2009
Link Magazine #4, 2010
Rising – o la chiusura del cerchio (Rising – or closing the circle), 2011, collage on paper
Three Rabbits, 2012
Bull, 2010
Moitié, 2011
Music Geometries, 2011
Edgar, EP cover, 2010
Ikebana #2, 2011
Cut Rabbit, 2010, wallwork for Urban research Theatre, NYC
About the Artist
Martina Merlini aka P0na (b. 1986, Bologna, Italy) is an illustrator currently living and working in Milan. As a child she professed that she wanted to be a children’s book illustrator and she obtained her degree in illustration from Milan’s IED (European Design Institute). Her work ranges across magazine illustrations, posters and record cover art to installations and murals. In her recent work she uses, at times in combination, figurative organic forms and strong graphic and geometric elements in an elegant, spare and visually powerful personal style.
Some children want to be famous movie actors, others want to become orchestra conductors, writers, astronauts. I wanted to be “a children’s books illustrator”, that was always my usual answer, pronounced with a pinch of pride. But i don’t think it was that reason the one that pushed me in this direction, instead I think it was that feeling you get when you see a well developed image, so strong yet so simple and you’d love to be able to create something so real and beautiful as well. – Martina Merlini (Fashion Blah Blah)
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