NEVERCREW
{{Short description|Swiss street art group}}
{{Infobox artist
|name = NEVERCREW
|image= File:Propagating machine NEVERCREW.jpg
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|caption =Mural painting realized by Nevercrew in Mannheim
|birth_name = Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni
|birth_date = 1980 & 1979
|birth_place = Lugano & Bellinzona, Switzerland
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|nationality = Swiss
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|field = Public art
Street-Art
Urban Interventionism
Urban art
Murals
Painting
Artivism
|training = Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy
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NEVERCREW is a Swiss street art group composed of Christian Rebecchi (born 1980) and Pablo Togni (born 1979).{{cite web|title=Nevercrew [Christian Rebecchi e Pablo Togni] – SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz|url=http://www.sikart.ch/kuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=13828669|website=www.sikart.ch}} NEVERCREW create large format murals, installations and urban interventions that emerge from their analysis of the relationship between humankind and nature.{{cite book|title=The urban contemporary art guide 2015|date=2015|publisher=GRAFFITI ART SAGL|isbn=979-1-09-167104-0|pages=182, 183}}{{cite web|author1=Clara Chaisson|title=These Artists Are Taking Environmental Issues to the Streets|url=https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/these-artists-are-taking-environmental-issues-streets|website=NRDC|date=7 September 2016 |language=en}}{{cite web|title=NEVERCREW's New Murals Express Their Growing Concern for Nature|url=http://hifructose.com/2015/11/24/nevercrews-new-murals-express-their-growing-concern-for-nature/|website=Hi-Fructose Magazine|date=24 November 2015}}{{cite book|last1=Cattaneo Moresi|first1=Patrizia|last2=Invernizzi|first2=Alice|last3=Cappelletti|first3=Matteo|title=Street Art - Da Basquiat a Banksy, i re della strada|date=2017|publisher=Artrust|isbn=978-88-98992-27-0|pages=14–25}}
History
The group was founded in 1996 by Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni while they were both students in the art school in Lugano, Switzerland.{{cite book|last1=Balmelli|first1=Aldo|last2=Regazzoni Jäggli|first2=Gaia|title=GraffiTi|year=2012|publisher=Salvioni Edizioni|location=Bellinzona|isbn=978-88-7967-271-9}}{{cite web|last1=K|first1=Nina|title=NEVERCREW|url=http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/nevercrew/|website=WideWalls}} Following this, they attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. They went on to realize public artworks worldwide in Grenoble, New Delhi,{{cite book|last1=Bartlett|first1=Ed|title=Street Art|date=2017|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-78657-757-3|pages=186–187, 206}} Manchester, Torino, Lucerne, Vancouver, Cairo, Aalborg, Rochester, Miami,{{cite web|title=NEVERCREW in Wynwood, Miami – I Support Street Art|url=http://www.isupportstreetart.com/nevercrew-in-wynwood-miami/|website=I Support Street Art|date=11 December 2015}}{{cite web|title="Ablating machine" by NEVERCREW in Miami, Florida {{!}} StreetArtNews|url=https://streetartnews.net/2015/12/nevercrew_miami_wynwood.html|website=StreetArtNews|date=11 December 2015}} Satka, Kyiv, Los Angeles and Phoenix.{{cite web|last1=Trimble|first1=Lynn|title=Here's the Story Behind Nevercrew's Bear Mural in Downtown Phoenix|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/nevercrew-bear-mural-downtown-phoenix-10114963|website=Phoenix New Times|date=10 February 2018}}{{cite book|last1=Minguet|first1=Eva|title=MURALS Large scale illustrations|date=2017|publisher=Instituto Monsa de ediciones|location=Spain|isbn=978-84-16500-39-0|pages=Cover, 2–3, 78–89}}
They were awarded by the Bally Cultural Foundation as "artists of the year 2012"{{cite web|title=Nevercrew {{!}}Bally Artists 2012{{!}} Bally Cultural Foundation|url=http://www.fondazionebally.ch/en/nevercrew.html?articles=previous-winners|website=Bally|language=en}}{{cite web|last1=Bertoldi|first1=Mattia|title=Mastering Street Art at the Festival|url=https://pardo.ch/it/pardo/pardo-live/today-at-festival/2013/day02/mastering-street-art-at-the-festival?|website=pardo.ch|language=it-IT}} and they were included in Graffiti Art Magazine's 100 most influent urban artists of the year in "The Urban Contemporary Art Guide 2015".{{cite book|title=The urban contemporary art guide 2015|date=2015|publisher=GRAFFITI SAGL|isbn=979-1-09-167104-0|pages=182, 183}}
Style and contents
According to Julien Vittores, on Graffiti Art Magazine issue #28 (2016), Nevercrew's style is based on their mutual communication as duo. They work on the concept of "comparison" and in fact it's through comparison that they graphically and conceptually express their thoughts about humankind condition and about the relationship mankind has with the natural environment.{{cite journal|last1=Vittores|first1=Julien|title=NEVERCREW – Ecosystems|journal=Graffiti Art Magazine|date=2016|issue=28|page=96}}
Nevercrew's work ranges from mural painting to installation, sculpture and small format paintings, including hyperrealistic subjects, graphical elements, site specific interactions, often mixed together. The concept of their artworks is related to environmental and social issues, with a tendency towards a wider vision of the human condition and human attitudes.{{cite web|url=https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/these-artists-are-taking-environmental-issues-streets|title=These Artists Are Taking Environmental Issues to the Streets|date=7 September 2016 |publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/804019/its-pretty-but-what-is-it-delhi-gawps-at-its-giant-new-murals|title='It's pretty, but what is it?': Delhi gawps at its giant new murals|first=Zinnia Ray|last=Chaudhuri|date=2 March 2016 |publisher=}} Their subjects are natural and mechanical, put in a terse confrontation between them within the space in which the artworks are realized.{{cite book|title=Walled city, the art of mural|date=2017|publisher=Gingko Press|location=USA|isbn=978-1-58423-671-9|pages=48–57}}{{cite web|last1=Martinique|first1=Elena|title=World-Renowned Muralists NEVERCREW Debut in UK at Unit 5 Gallery|url=http://www.widewalls.ch/nevercrew-art-unit-5-gallery/|website=WideWalls}}{{cite web|last1=Corboy|first1=Peter|title=NEVERCREW's murals highlight our effect on the natural world|url=https://www.designboom.com/art/nevercrew-street-art-christian-rebecchi-pablo-togni-10-23-2016/|website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|access-date=23 October 2016|date=23 October 2016}}
Gallery
{{Gallery
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|File:Nevercrew realizing machine Lucerne.jpg|alt1=Mural painting realized by Nevercrew in Lucerne|Mural painting "Realizing machine" realized by Nevercrew in Lucerne, Switzerland 2016.
|File:Nevercrew inhuman barriers Manchester.jpg|alt2=Mural painting realized by Nevercrew in Manchester|Mural painting "Inhuman barriers" realized by Nevercrew in Manchester, United Kingdom 2016.
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