The Italian street artist who took Rome by storm with the images of Pope Francis as superman or playing tic-tac-toe is now creating an art series to illustrate the Pope's Lenten message for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each week, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development will release a drawing and passage from the Pope's message. The first shows Pope Francis with a wheelbarrow navigating a road full of difficulties. But through faith and the Pope's guidance, the challenging road becomes possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAURO PALLOTTA But the journey to being chosen as the artist to design this Lenten series began 10 years ago. Then, Mauro was a street artist who wanted to use his comicbook-style images of the newly elected Pope Francis to help people understand who he is. Today, his reason to continue with the papal pictures has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MAURO PALLOTTA And after a decade of making his artwork dedicated to Pope Francis, the Vatican as officially approved his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MAURO PALLOTTA Now, Mauro has gone from being called the \u201crebel artist\u201d to one officially sanctioned by the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The artist, sometimes called a \u201crebel\u201d, will create a new drawing together with a passage from the Pope's message each week of Lent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":65324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,187,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UIrhIszqK6I","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmaupalapprovedeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmaupalapprovedint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65327,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65323\/revisions\/65327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Street Artist<\/strong>
With the art pieces for this Lent, I want to be able to join the Holy Father in a simple but effective way. With his words, he leads us on a profound reflection and path that aims to help us abandon our bondages until we reach the promised land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Street Artist<\/strong>
I try to emphasize some of his great messages that he gives to humanity and I re-interpret them in a comical way but also with a pinch of irony, sometimes even sarcasm, which is a typical Roman style. And I do this to simplify his messages, which can sometimes be a bit complicated for some people, especially for the very young. My language is easily readable even for a 4-year-old.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Street Artist<\/strong>
I now have official confirmation that he remembers me. He knows of my existence. Our relationship is made from the images I create and sometimes he sees them briefly. So it's a relationship from a distance,but nevertheless we can say that there is still a bond because I know that he sees what I do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n