These days on the facade of one of the largest hospitals in the world, the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, in Florida, appeared a colorful mural of over thirty square meters, to pay homage doctors and nurses engaged in battle al covid19. The artist is an Italian and her name is Claudia La Bianca, flown to the United States after a degree in fashion design. First New York and then Miami, always looking for interesting ideas for his Street Art.
Claudia, from Sicily to the USA
The mural is titled "Our Heroes”(Our Heroes) and celebrates the great work they do in this pandemic is carrying out all the health personnel: doctors, nurses, social workers, cleaners and security workers ...
people who in recent months have worked with dedication, sacrifice, without schedules, risking their lives to save that of others from the epidemic. “We will never finish thanking them enough,” the artist told CBS. To create the mural, Claudia worked ten hours a day for almost two weeks. The work was sponsored by the former football player Lucas George Petitgout, who gave her $ 30 to do a job of that magnitude.
Superheroes against covid19
At the beginning of this pandemic it was very worried about her country, Italy, and for their family. The spread of the virus then extended to the United States as well. They have also been taken overseas containment measures of the contagion. Claudia found herself locked away in her South Florida home.
However, this period of isolation was productive. He drew a lot. In his head, the project began to take shape with the main protagonists of this pandemic, those who remained in the front row, with gown and masks, to fight against covid19. Claudia started by drawing nurses with the likeness of comic book superheroes. The design made the rounds of social media and was immediately liked a lot. It came to hospitals with meal donations. It was then that the Jackson Memorial he made two walls available and Claudia worked tirelessly for 14 days to create the magnificent mural.
Who is Claudia
She was born in a small pase della Sicilia in the province of Palermo, Bagheria. Daughter of artists, it has always been easy for her to express her creativity. The mother says she was born with a pencil in her hand. He soon lost his father. In her teens she struggled with extra pounds and was targeted by the country's bullies.
That's why he spent so much time indoors, drawing amazing women, superheroines, and dreaming of one day becoming like them. “I think I succeeded”, Claudia comments today. The mural created for the JMH has strong and bright colors and with a predominance of female figures which recall the previous works of Claudia, engaged for some time with the movement Women empowerment, “Women's power”. However, she is a well-rounded artist. He worked as a director for the television program "Hanna Help Me". Claudia has made commercials for big names like Walmart and many music video for international bands. And he also produced a short film entitled “The Journey of a Dragonfly".
Since she moved to Miami in 2006 she has become known above all for her Street Art. The murals in the Wynwood Art District bear her signature. In 2017 the Miami New Times indicated her as one of the "most interesting people of the year". From there it was a succession of interviews for CNN, Telemundo… He conquered a page of the New York Times. Now he hopes to be able to do more murals like the one at the Miami hospital. But if you ask her which is the most precious work of art, she answers her two beautiful children, Kalypso and Namu.