Giorgio Coen Cagli: giugno 2014

sabato 14 giugno 2014

Art Reportage for "Public and Confidential"- Jef Aerosol

Here's a selection of pictures taken for "Public And Confidential", the great project of Wunderkammern dedicated to street art, with the last artist invited to Rome, Jef Aerosol

Wunderkammern is a gallery based in Torpignattara, Rome, that "exhibits a genre of work inspired by the relation between the personal and the collective space. The gallery and its represented artists explore themes related the marvellous, the paradox, the connection between the inside and the outside, the conventional and the unaccepted, privacy and voyeurism, with a strong influence by 'relational art' and 'public art"

http://www.wunderkammern.net

"Jean-François Perroy, better known by his pseudonym Jef Aérosol (1957, Nantes), is an uncontested pioneer of international street art. Without discrimination, he creates portraits of public figures and notorious personas, of anonymous characters, street artists, passersby, beggars, and children alike: all are preferably depicted in black and white, and characterized by an enigmatic red arrow, the artist’s renown signature and “brand”. Actors in the contemporary visual panorama, Jef’s protagonists seem, ultimately, to all look alike, as if both the consequence and contradictory mirror of the same collective tissue that defines them."

http://www.jefaerosol.com

The pictures were shot during the set up of the exhibition, the performance at the French Insitute, the making of the murales in Tor Pignattara and the stencils in via della Marranella

All pictures are © Giorgio Coen Cagli- Courtesy Wunderkammern

Here a couple of links where the pictures were published:

La Repubblica

Internazionale

Insideart

All pictures © Giorgio Coen Cagli-Courtesy Wunderkammern

gcoencagli@hotmail.com

mercoledì 11 giugno 2014

Art Reportage for "Public and Confidential"- Aakash Nihalani

Here's a selection of pictures taken for "Public And Confidential", the great project of Wunderkammern dedicated to street art, with the fourth artist invited to Rome, Aakash Nihalani

Wunderkammern is a gallery based in Torpignattara, Rome, that "exhibits a genre of work inspired by the relation between the personal and the collective space. The gallery and its represented artists explore themes related the marvellous, the paradox, the connection between the inside and the outside, the conventional and the unaccepted, privacy and voyeurism, with a strong influence by 'relational art' and 'public art"

http://www.wunderkammern.net

"Born in Queens (USA), but of Indian heritage, Aakash Nihalani (1986) utilizes colored, oftentimes fluorescent, adhesive tape to create simple geometric shapes that simulate three-dimensionality and function as deceptive continuations of the surrounding adjacent structures. Once the optical illusions are created, it is the human body that brings them to life, achieving a visual effect that is surprising and unexpected each time. In Aakash’s installations people interact with the geometry as they would with 3-dimensional depth and perspective, as both players and as spectators alike.

Nihalani explains: “Most artists use a canvas in order to paint on a limited surface. Like a painter I start with the canvas, but I also explore the ways to sculpt and paint around it, using it as a visual object in and of itself. These paintings, like the majority of my work, are created with a specific point of view – a frontal one – where the illusion exists and the shapes seem to come to life.”

http://www.aakashnihalani.com

All Pictures © Giorgio Coen Cagli- Courtesy Wunderkammern

All pictures © Giorgio Coen Cagli-Courtesy Wunderkammern

gcoencagli@hotmail.com

domenica 8 giugno 2014

Art Reportage for "Public and Confidential"- Agostino Iacurci

Here's a selection of pictures taken for "Public And Confidential", the great project of Wunderkammern dedicated to street art, with the second artist invited to Rome, Agostino Iacurci

Wunderkammern is a gallery based in Torpignattara, Rome, that "exhibits a genre of work inspired by the relation between the personal and the collective space. The gallery and its represented artists explore themes related the marvellous, the paradox, the connection between the inside and the outside, the conventional and the unaccepted, privacy and voyeurism, with a strong influence by 'relational art' and 'public art"

http://www.wunderkammern.net

"Agostino Iacurci (Foggia, 1986) is one of the most promising artists on the Street Art scene. In his works of synthetic forms and bright colors, through an essential language, he is capable of driving multiple layers of interpretation. A cynical and intelligent irony positions Agostino’s tales on the perennial threshold between innocence and artifice, serenity and catastrophe, in a magnetic tension that is the interpretive key to our very existence." For "Public and Confidential" "the artist has created the public piece “Zero Infinito” on the facade of the building of I.I.S.S. Di Vittorio-Lattanzio, on via Aquilonia, near the gallery."

http://www.agostinoiacurci.com