X-Wing Red One in NYC, 2024

Fine art print overpainted in acrylic on flush edge with back frame
135 × 99 cm
Unique work

Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Hand-signed
UV torch included

Price on request

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About the artwork

“X-Wing Red One in NYC” is a unique work by Yuri Catania (Rovio, Switzerland, 2024) from the They Are Here series. A black-and-white photograph draws the eye down a Manhattan avenue, between skyscraper façades and blurred traffic, to the Empire State Building at the end of the perspective. Above the cars an X-Wing starfighter flies low, followed in the distance by a second craft; from the sides, fluorescent fuchsia acrylic paint cuts across the image in long diagonal strokes, like laser bursts crossing the street. The city stays grey and documentary; the fantastic enters only through colour. Fine art print on paper, overpainted in acrylic, raw edge with back frame. They Are Here is the series of the Yuri in Wonderland collection in which Yuri Catania brings the epic scenes of cinematic pop culture into his street photographs of New York: a short circuit between fiction and reality in which AI image generation becomes a bridge between the artist's childhood dreams and his work as a visual artist and street photographer. Its ideal starting point is the final scene of the film The NeverEnding Story (1984), in which Bastian returns from Fantasia on the back of the luckdragon, flying between the buildings of a great unnamed city, which for the artist has always been New York. Each work is conceived to be experienced. Under the UV torch supplied, hidden colours and details emerge, visible at the same frequency at which insects perceive them on flowers. UV fluorescent pigments: the work reveals itself in the dark with the UV torch supplied with the work. With augmented reality, activated after purchase in the collector's home, the image comes to life when the work is framed with a smartphone, in an experience of sounds and visions created by the artist.

Technical details

Technique	fine art print overpainted in acrylic
Support and mounting	flush edge with back frame
Dimensions	135 × 99 cm
Edition	Unique work
Signature	Hand-signed
Certificate	Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Provenance	Directly from the artist's atelier, Rovio (CH)
Artwork code	YC-TAH-XWNGRDNN-2024-UNC

Technical details

Technique	fine art print overpainted in acrylic
Support and mounting	flush edge with back frame
Dimensions	135 × 99 cm
Edition	Unique work
Signature	Hand-signed
Certificate	Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Provenance	Directly from the artist's atelier, Rovio (CH)
Artwork code	YC-TAH-XWNGRDNN-2024-UNC

The artist

Yuri Catania

Swiss-Italian visual artist, born in Milan in 1975, he lives and works in Rovio, in Val Mara, at the foot of Monte Generoso, home to the CasaGalleria.ART gallery-atelier. He studied Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano.

His work combines photography, painting and digital tools in a single language: photographs taken by the artist himself, from the atelier garden to the moon seen through a telescope, are composed, printed, pasted onto concrete and wood supports and repainted with fluorescent acrylics that reveal themselves under ultraviolet light. His main collections – Yuri in Wonderland with the Astro Girl series, A Day of Flowers, Black Flowers Secret Garden and My Generoso – revolve around a constant theme: the relationship between nature, technology and the human gaze, with the Rovio garden and its biodiversity as the starting point.

Selected exhibitions and awards

2026 · Arte Laguna Prize, finalist in the Urban Art / Street Art section with Astro Credy, Arsenale Nord, Venice (6–29 November)
2016 · Art is Hope, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation, in support of AIDES
2015 · Art is Hope, PIASA, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation
2013 · Art is Hope, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation