Malleus is an artistic collective devoted to rock music and to its historical image inventory, born in Italy at the beginning of the new century . Music and drawing are the main coordinates of the world where the trio takes the first steps, realizing record covers, fanzines and underground magazines' illustrations, images and logos for the web and concert posters too.

Malleus is an omnivore creature.
The iconography at the base of his work originates from a widespread scenery including figurative arts, in particular Expressionism and Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Surrealism, Pop Art and Psychedelic Art, even comics, photography, cinema and literature. All these ingredients blend in with the main element of his poetics, that is the female form, the primordial goddess, from whom everything comes.

Even in his own small way, Malleus represents an anachronistic and not logical exception, in a country that sometimes seems to have put aside child dreams, creativity, cultural independence, suffocated by media subculture infecting from above every stratum.

At the end of 2002, the trio of Malleus, printing their first handmade silkscreen, take the critical step of a walk that will make them known as one of the most remarkable reality in the Poster Art scene of today. Throught the handprint silkscreen, a simple gigposters turns into something different and particular.
Every copy is unrepeatable, a pop piece made throught real physical effort, on the precious papers of the italian tradition. Its layers of colours pulsate and flutter in the light like organic matter.

Several Malleus' arworks have been displayed in various collective and individual art shows, and have been included in "Art of Modern Rock", the gig poster gospel by Paul Grushkin and Dennis King, in “Art of Modern Rock: Mini #1 A-Z” and “Art of Modern Rock: Mini #2 Poster Girls” by Dennis king, in "Swag posters" by Judith Salavetz and in "A fistful of Rock'n'Roll" by Sal Canzonieri.