Behind this allegory of Victory, it is in reality women and their beneficial role that Cesare Malfi seeks to celebrate.
A winged goddess who awards the palm to the winner, Nikaïa, from Greek mythology, is also the mythical founder of the eponymous city of Nice.
The values ​​it conveys, positive and inspiring, find their natural place in its city and even more in this district of "republican reconquest". Emerging from a Mediterranean and unifying blue background, this victory is embodied in two complementary figures: an ancient sculpture with smooth modeling associated with the naive design of an uninhibited modernity.
When the first, of a hyperrealistic style, offers a faithful reproduction of its sculpted volumes, the second opposes it with the lightness of its outline freed from the classical model. Literal or suggestive, these two feminine figures reconcile classicism and modernity, virtuosity and ingenuousness, codification and freedom.
Created with young people from the neighborhood, this fresco covers a social ambition, opening up to art and culture to build concerned and informed citizens.

Côte d'Azur Habitat, Les Moulins, October 2022.