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malleusdelic

MALLEUS Rock Art Lab
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Malleus is an Italian three headed collective spreading its tentacles through all kind of visual art, from illustration to videos, passing through handpulled screen prints.

The iconography at the base of their work originates from a vast scenery including figurative arts, in particular Expressionism and Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Surrealism, Pop Art and Psychedelic Art, and also comics, photography, cinema and literature.

All these ingredients blend in with the main element of their poetics; that is the female form, the primordial goddess, from whom everything comes. Blackened art nouveau mixed with elements of surrealism and quotes from the school of expressionism glowing in its amber, resulting in an almost psychedelically overwhelming experience of visual magick.

All of the power trio’s works are based on hand-drawings and reflect the artists’ deep understanding and love for music.

At the end of 2002, the trio of Malleus, printing their first handmade silkscreen, took the critical step towards a walk that will make them enter into the Poster Art scene of today. Through the handprinted silkscreen, a simple gigposter turns into something different and particular.

Since then, Malleus have created screen prints for rock acts such as Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Deftones, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Robert Plant, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, the Melvins, Crosby Stills and Nash, Sleep, Linkin Park, The Prodigy,Dresden Dolls, The Mars Volta, Mogwai, Motorpsycho, Monster Magnet, Muse, Sonic Youth and many others all over the world.

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Malleus have been featured in The New York Times, MTV, RockHard, RockSound, Rolling Stones, Sky among others.

Some of their clients include Volvo, Activision, Mondadori, Feltrinelli, CF Napa Brand Design, Century Guild, Oakley , Hellfest, Roadburn, Asymmetry Festival, Barley Arts, Secret Serpents, Dark City Gallery, MTV, Rolling Stone.

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Love all your work!
Incredible! Just today I was lamenting the loss of this particular form of art. I really love that spot between art nouveau and 60s psychedelia... And your prints look great! What do you use to origin the different colour screens? I have only a clumsy system with a wooden 90 degree tool and a transparency that together kind of should allow matching prints, and at least on fabric the prints never match 100% :P I never took any courses so I have huge holes in my knowledge about how to do the prints...
Your work is outstanding! saw your Tenebre poster and was imediatly hooked!
Great Great work! 
So good!
Gorgeous work! Love it!