The Italian artist and stylist Benito Maceratawith his works that blend painting with the experimentation of materials, will be the protagonist at Expo 2025 in Osaka in Japan. The artist from Marches was in charge of creating his work by the company ‘Universal Cruise’ which manages the setting up of the Expo Sea Station, the entrance door of the Universal Exhibition of Osaka, which will be held from 13 April to 13 October 2025 on the artificial island of Yumeshima, in the Bay of Osaka. THE’Universal exhibition It has already been held once in Osaka, in 1970, but the issue of Expo 2025 will be “designing future society for our life”. Macerata will draw a large, marine -themed murals, telling a story and freeing its inner self, fixing, through a completely personal symbolism, concepts, thoughts, emotions, in a constant artistic flow that retraces the deepest and most intimate evolutionary stages of its path.
The possibility of expressing himself in Japan is a stage of a path that saw him protagonist in Mexico, in Dubai with the exhibition of works at the Oblong Gallery and continued with a presentation to the prestigious Columbus Citizens Foundation in New York, where he told his story and his art, which was also enclosed in a ‘. Dachape’ book that will be presented on April 12 in Milan Fuorisalone.
Benito Macerata expressed at the Adnkronos “Great enthusiasm for the project at Expo 2025 in Osaka”, underlining how “this opportunity represents an important stop in my artistic path, which allows me to express my creativity in a highly prestigious international context”. Macerata then explained that “the marine theme of the mural allows me to explore and represent deep and personal symbolisms, also linked to Japan, creating a work that tells a story and transmits emotions through a constant artistic flow”.