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TVBOY is the artistic identity of Salvatore Benintende, an Italian visual artist whose public work combines street art, painting and contemporary pop imagery. His official portfolio documents a practice built around recognisable cultural figures, social commentary and site-responsive interventions in public space. Working with the immediacy of paste-ups, murals and graphic portraiture, he uses familiar symbols as a way to address politics, celebrity, identity and current events. The project developed through European street-art culture and has expanded into gallery works, institutional collaborations and commissioned visual programmes while retaining the direct visual language of work made for the street. TVBOY's credited collaboration around the Pacha presentation for 50 Cent is an occurrence-specific visual contribution: it supports his relevance to the event without turning the venue, promoter or production team into artist identities. The official portfolio locks the canonical TVBOY spelling and the Salvatore Benintende identity behind it.