Italian artist Maurizio Sergiusti, aka Scoobafish, turns decommissioned road signs collected in Sardinia into monumental artworks that only reveal themselves from the sky. Called Urban Pixel, the project uses each dented, scratched or rusted sign as a physical pixel – never painted, cut or cleaned of its past life. Concerto 0 brought together 127 signs across roughly six metres to form a partially decomposed apple, a symbol of abundance turned into a comment on consumption and waste; at night the signs’ retroreflective surfaces produce an entirely different image when hit by a beam of light. For It Takes So Little, 172 signs were laid out on fire-scarred land in San Teodoro to depict a half-burnt match more than 16 metres long. Next up is The Last Wave: nearly 1,000 signs on a beach reinterpreting Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, with a rotting apple at its centre. Each installation is temporary, documented by aerial photos and video, then dismantled and catalogued for future works.
