Graduated with honors from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, since 2004 he collaborates with TheBagArtFactory artistic group. In 2007 he joined the TDK Crew, the historic group of Milan murals writers, renowned as one of the strongest and deep-rooted realities in the Italian graffiti writing’s scene.

The artistic and cultural background of Federico Unia is strongly linked to his birthplace: Milan. As he explains, the city is enchanting, intriguing and ravishing, just like a beautiful and shady woman. The wonderful and damned metropolis, confounding and dazed by heterogeneous advertising, gave boost to the outcropping of that peculiar artistic language, kept inside for a long time in a sort of contemplative incubation. His artistic identity stems from the collective experimenting of the pop art and the reflection over disrupting New Dada ideas. Federico draws inspiration from the reinterpretation of poster-art carried out by Nouveau Réalisme’s affichistes -first and foremost Mimmo Rotella-, from Rauschenberg combine-paintings and from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein reworking of popular icons, to end up with a unique modus-operandi, modeled through the street art filter and his creative reuse of artistic languages. The result is a hybrid Urban-Pop creation, which emphasizes his ability of mixing different styles and techniques and expresses an impressive creative insight.

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