The Swedish artist MariaManuela Vintilescu, known as Nipponpop, has created two artworks for Subtopia’s outdoor gallery. She chose to place one of them on an electrical cabinet that you can see at the beginning of the passage. The idea was that whoever got lost wandering around would be met with a pleasant surprise.
The artist has worked with advertising, graphic arts, screen printing, decorative painting, mural painting, and artistic decoration. Her paintings often carry memories from childhood dreams and a duality between the modern and the traditional.
The two artworks at Subtopia are of a tiny figure named Nonna, which is a celebration of MariaManuela’s role as a grandmother. Nipponpop is the mother-in-law of another artist who is in our art walk, namely street and graffiti artist Ziggy, who also has two artworks in the outdoor gallery.