DOWNSET
ART VERONA 2010
Artwork presented at Art Verona Fair 2010 by Angel Art Gallery. The artwork is called “Vucciria”.
MASH UP – SUPERSTUDIO MILAN
During the months of May, June, July, August & September 2010 I presented in Milan a big personal exhibition called Mash Up. It tooks me a whole year to prepare all the pieces of the show which were almost 50 new artworks divided between big sized canvases, medium size artworks on paper, and a huge sculpture and a enormous spraypainted Pvc on the outside.
The concept behind the exhibition was to create a “Mash-up” of images from contemporary culture following this major quote: “Art, don’t lock yourself up inside your rooms, keep in touch with the street kids.” The Location SuperstudioPiú, Via Tortona 27, Milan (www.superstudiogroup.com) was an huge industrial space in which take place every year very important meetings in the fields of Art, Fashion and Design such the Milan Furniture Fair, the “White” Fashion Fair and Contemporary Art Fair. Thanks to the big effort of my colleaugues at Art Kitchen we builted up a very professional and ambitious exhibition divided in three main sections. More than a thousand visitors came to the opening, Here some pics of the show…
LA ROCA VILLAGE
La Roca Village, outlet village member of the chain Chic Outlet Shopping commited me an illustration campaign called “La Vuelta al Cole” – “Back to School”. In the photos you can see the advertising on the Spanish Newspaper “La Vanguardia”and photos of the promotional event at La Roca del Valles, Spain.
SKIRA
Coinciding with my last personal exhibition the company Skira published a book with my works with an introduction text by the curator of the show Jacopo Perfetti, a brief history of my career through photos and commentaries from renown art personalities such as Philippe Daverio, Elio Fiorucci & more.
You can find the book in almost all italian art libraries and other selected shops.
To order it online visit Skira website.
Credits: Zak Andrea Zaccone, Art Kitchen.
LEONFORTE
The city council of Leonforte, a small town in the middle of Sicily, invited me to create a Mural for the Aniversary of the 400 years of the Foundation of the City. I took the inspiration from the local people. In the wallpainting you can notice some Leonforte’s oldests inhabitants with the traditional “coppola” hat seaten in front of thebars looking at people passing by. A young waitress is carrying a pizza and a beer. On the backwards stands the mount “Cernigliere” with his Virgin sculpture. A man is carrying some boxes full of peaches, one of the tastier local products. On the backwards stands the mount “Cernigliere” with his Virgin sculpture and also some local monuments such as the “Granfonte” Fountain, the “Branciforti” palace, the “Scuderia”. Also you can’t miss the typical local young boy with sunglasses driving fast with his scooter and his mother going to buy some food… Last but not least the Lion as the symbol of the city of Leonforte which literally means “Strong Lion”. Many thanks to Turo, Antonio, Moreno and Giuseppe for their big help.
PSC
The Catalonian Socialist party invited me to interpret through a poster his slogan “Seguiexo creint en – I still follow believing in” and to continue the sentence with a word which was representative for me. I thought about the theme of participation, the need to involve the people and make them trust your words. So I took the famous U.S. military poster with the “Uncle Sam” and adapt it to the new concept.
LA RINASCENTE DENIM CITIES
La Rinascente Department Stores in Italy committed me five artworks inspired to the cities of Rio, London, New York, Paris and Tokio to be displayed in their windows for the promotion of the Spring Summer 2010 Denim Collections.
The artworks were displayed in all italian stores among which Torino, Padova, Genova, Firenze, Roma, Milano, Catania and Cagliari. In the photos: New York, London, Paris, Tokio and Palermo seen by Tvboy.
Agent: Art Kitchen 2010
ZUMBINI6
Watch the video of the making-of
LA RINASCENTE MILANO
Coinciding with Tvboy’s show at Superstudio Piú in May I displayed 4 new artworks inspired to the “Affiches” of La Rinascente and to authors such as M.Dudovich in the windows of La Rinascente Duomo. Via Redegonda. I also had an out post corner shop at the -1 floor (Design Supermarket) of La Rinascente Duomo Milano. The store featured a limited edition collection of tee shirt and accessories designed exclusively for La Rinascente.
TVBOY STOP MOTION
A Short videoclip realized by the directors Marco Proserpio and Thomas Murphy. The video was recorded in Milan during the month of Abril 2010 and the techinque used in this video is called pixelation.
RINASCENTE PALERMO
La Rinascente heads invited me together with Jacopo from Art Kitchen to spend an amazing weekend in Palermo. During two days I had to paint live a 6×3 meters illustration inspired on my hometown for the opening of the new flagship store in Via Roma … Thanks to all the peole and friends who passed by and stayed with us…
10ELOTTO
TVBOY FACES AT MILAN FURNITURE FAIR BY ART KITCHEN AND 10ELOTTO.
More here: www.tvboy.it/facce-da-tv-boy/