Centina

Centina

By Arden de Raaij

Browsing through Flickr on a rainy day, I was instantly awed by the beautiful work of street / graffiti artist Centina. Hailing from Parma in Italy, Centina is a carpenter, a regular street art misfit and a self-proclaimed ‘bite-proof animal’ (don’t ask). Anyway, there’s definitely a lot of love for painting shining through in his works that varies from amazingly shaded portraits in abandoned factories to fire-extinguisher demolition next to the highway. Instead of spray-cans, Centina prefers brushes and water colours to make his creations with, and the heights are simply reached by a brush on a stick! And as for a goal with his art? Centina “My goal is to become a billionaire, drawing in factories abandoned by God himself”.