INTRODUCING THE RAGAZZI

The RAGAZZI are not polite portraits. They’re not here to flatter, decorate, or conform. They’re here to remind you of the one thing that matters most: independence.

Becoming who you are is never neat. It’s messy, it’s brutal, it demands belief. The RAGAZZI are about that fight—the refusal to shrink, the courage to break from the script, the audacity to imagine a self beyond circumstance.

Don’t mistake them for likenesses. Yes, they start with faces, with people. But these figures are not meant to capture personality or character. They are symbols – charged images, closer to memento mori than portraiture. Their presence is a provocation: don’t waste your time, don’t inherit someone else’s version of reality, don’t bow to convention.

Life is brief. Too brief to delay, too fragile to outsource your choices. Or as Lennon warned us: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

The RAGAZZI dare you to make those plans irrelevant. To take your chance, to become the person only you can be. Because imitation is forgettable. But your uniqueness – that’s unforgettable.

– MC LUPO