Defi Gagliardo (1975), was born in Villa real, Buenos Aires, into a traditional Italian family living in a small neighborhood in a cosmopolitan city. What began as innocent and casual play developed over the years,
accompanying his first experiences of intervening in public spaces He studied design at the University of
Buenos Aires, but his flammable spirit burned beyond the limits of academia, where it nurtured itself in the
beginning, later transgressing them and creating Fase with other artists, a movement that synthesizes
illustration, motion graphics, music and experimentation. This movement served as the basis for a personal
development, in which curiosity branched out into distinct plans of action. Around 2001, he played an
important part in the birth of Street Art in Argentina, which emerged as a medium of direct communication
with the spectator in a time of crisis, while at the same time generating alternative spaces due to a lack of
galleries willing to appropriate its works. It was in this way that animals, friends and the street were spontaneously
transformed into the material on which his explorations of color and his constant search for reaction
express themselves. He evades categorization and definition, escaping them through perpetual mutation.
The many facets of his work range from the kitchen to fashion design. Lindo Killer brings his art to unique
garments that transform the person wearing them into a mobile painting. While the street is his natural
environment, his work achieves its potential when his many creations are exhibited in a single gallery space.
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