Beast

Beast is an Italian anonymous contemporary street artist from Milan.

Beast is the pseudonym for an anonymous Milan-based street artist who has been active on the streets of Europe and United States since 2009, with a focus on stencils at first and later at creating digital collages aiming to highlight political and social issues.

Beast created public artworks that portray well-known political figures including Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Marine Le Pen, Matteo Renzi, Silvio Berlusconi, Matteo Salvini and Mario Draghi.

Beast uses photo manipulation technique to create his works as well as wheat pasting and billboard hijacking methods to place his works in the public sphere.

• Catz, Jérôme (2015). Street Art le Guide (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2081358805.
• Ganz, Nicholas (2015). Street Messages. Dokument Press. ISBN 978-9185639731.