"Smash the wall down" curated by Francesca De Filippi

Smash the wall down

Angelo Crazyone / Dario Molinaro / Michael Rotondi

curated by Francesca De Filippi
Gallery Rivaartecontemporanea, Via Umberto I, 32 Lecce

opening Friday, June 11th 20.00

July 11 giugno/24


Intricate contemporary art, which is today undergoing a bizarre mix in which the values of post-conceptualism Duchamp, memory pop aesthetic trends, influences of post-industrial culture halfway between punk and cyber, and finally the constraints of technological, shows the urgent social and cultural patterns of change that are vested at the head of the conventional mechanisms of production, dissemination and use of artistic languages. In many different areas of creativity is recognized the seed of a new revolutionary consciousness that finds its way through the experts and not just the art of this is increasingly becoming a necessity and a collective right, a visual and intellectual stimulation , alternative models offered by the company mortified by ambiguous deviations of globalization and mass communication.
Already in the not suspect emerged from the art museums and galleries to spread in everyday life, infiltrating the social fabric and urban cities and has itself become a "space" physically and mentally disruptive, as a great platform Interactive, has helped to encode new idioms and innovative visual communication systems. Think of the born and practices developed since the 70s of Land Art and Performance, or the most recent of Street Art, which have revolutionized the system of ethical and aesthetic systems stiffened academic models and therefore inadequate to accommodate changes time.

Today the gap between the artistic message and systems of conventional vehicles is even wider: not only the artist to recognize the need to reduce the ideal distance between the work and the public, but the whole system to recognize this, thus involving not only its main players but also the sites members. If art was the first to come out on the street looking for a touch more real and less conventional, are now the same "packages" proposed as alternative means of disclosure.

Based on these considerations comes the Smash The Wall Down shows that in the title by showing a clear statement of intent, it is proposed to implement a model exhibition "subversive" in which all the elements combine to create an ideological movement and critical and independent of the labels able to become independent and self-sufficient. The gallery will divest of its institutional role and responsible for environment-friendly use becomes a "public space" where unconventional art frees his provocative and innovative potential. The exhibition, conceived as a time of testing and meeting the reflections of artists, will culminate the day of the openings in a true celebration with music "fired ball" that will help to permanently dismantle the size of the static and auratic enjoyment of art.
Crazyone Angelo, Dario Molinaro and Michael Rotondi are artists who, united by an uncompromising and rebellious spirit derived even from a young age, have developed, each with its own language, a critical path by tapping full political and social issues, but also literary and ideological. The Sicilian Crazyone formed on sub-culture of Writing Street, was compared to this time on the canvas with a technique that combines the use of stencils to reproduce three-dimensional geometric shapes. Watching with ironic wit to the problems of the present Crazyone proposes a sharp and sometimes odious to some symbols of contemporary society. The very young and rookie Dario Molinaro, fascinated by pop culture and comics, models his graphite drawings on the major issues of current but not limited to: its language is symbolic and visionary, partly contaminated by the aesthetic influences of Victorian illustrations and partly from the more typical members of the Street Art thus encodes a complex visual vocabulary that perception of the classic shorts. Finally, Michael Rotondi, have largely confirmed in its production "newbrow" array pop / punk, offers a caustic and pungent reading of religious ideologies that blend with popular culture. Renewing his style of painting with a brush that looks a definition of line and color backgrounds closer to the way of illustration, Rotondi reinforces the innovative nature of his artistic research.


The exhibition catalog "SMASH DOWN THE WALL" available here!

http://www.zshare.net/download/773641576470edf2/