Nello Petrucci
Aniello Petrucci, known professionally as Nello Petrucci (born 26 January 1981) is an Italian artist and film director. He specializes in painting, street art, and sculpture, and works in both collage and halftone. Petrucci lives and works in Pompei and New York City. Biography Petrucci was born on January 26, 1981 in Castellammare di Stabia, a comune within the Naples metropolitan area. In the early 2000s, he studied cinema in Rome. He attained a degree in scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 2010. Career Petrucci often includes social and environmental issues in his works. An example of this is his installation Plastic River, which depicts a whale made of recycled plastic. Plastic River was exhibited in Pompei in 2019 to highlight the environmental impacts of excessive plastic use. In 2019, Petrucci also participated in the third rendition of Subscatti "Il Golfo di Plastica", an exhibition highlighting the impact of ocean plastic pollution. His contribution was exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum. Petrucci is the artistic director of the Pompei Street Festival and Stabiae Street, inviting about 40 international street artists to Pompei, including C215, M-City, Francisco Bosoletti, Ledania, Gianpiero, Mr.Kas, Maxi Bagnasco and others. Collections