DesX

Luca Ximenes, known as DesX, is an Italian visual artist born in L’Aquila in 1976. He lives and works in Rome.
His alias, DesX (from Data Encryption Standard 10), originates from computer cryptography and reflects both his early need for anonymity, when his first urban works were created illegally, and his fascination with cyberpunk culture. This influence is evident in his fragmented, incomplete visual language, open to multiple interpretations.

Active in the underground scene since the early 1990s, he began exhibiting his works in public space more consistently from 2011. With a background in architecture, he merges technical structure with a strong visual and conceptual sensibility, working across oil painting, contemporary muralism and Street Art. His pieces are characterized by a strong relationship with spatial context and thematic composition.