Exhibitions, Italy, Torino, 08 November 2012
A mother is watching tv and start screaming: “ It's Monsters, our favorite show!” and her daughter replies: “ Shh... it's the begin”. Suddenly the camera changes shot and focuses on the father’s evil and scary smile, with this image the movie ends.
This was the beginning of each episode of the TV series “Monsters”, broadcasted in Italy since 1988 to 1990. An aerial view of an anonymous urban district then a quickly zoom in the house. The camera goes in to a dining room, where there is a family watching TV, they are a creepy creatures eating insects, dressed in normal clothes and they have typical attitude of the american middle class. The monster is always lives in our toughts and in the social imagination, it crowds the fantasies and embodies the fear of what is different ad unknown. However, The Monster also has an exorcising power, because “ to give birth to a monster” is an expressive act that allows overcome fear and shyness to give value ourselves, and let our real essence to flow out, even the worst one.
The group exhibition “The Monsters”, throught the personal artistic style of each artists, play with a double meaning: between the prodigoius amazement of somenthing that suddenly shows and the horrible, the enormous, the strange. Monster and prodigy are synonymous and art, with its universal value, is the way to have a cognitive experience for a social integration.
The outcast and the monstrous creature comes out, in conctact with real world, it lives, interacts and mingles with other people. In this exhibition the painting is the metaphor for social integration, because the painting borns from infinite brush strokes, everyone different from each other, and theese differences come together and create the paint.
Marcello Buffa, Angelo Crazyone, Stefano Cumia, Martina Di Trapani, William Marc Zanghiwith their different style, form an artistic group and their works are populated by strange and particular figures.
Out of the gothic novel and moovie; monsters lives unmolestede and free among other people, in desolate cities or quite in the crowd. The monsters are with us, but now we don't care.
In the Magnifica Preda' spaces, live the haunting faces, whit deep and interrogatives eyes of Marcello Buffa' works, while visual illusion is the artistic strategems used by Angelo Crazyone. Hallucinations of a visionary and utopian generation revive in Stefano Cumia' works; Martina Di Trapani put in her colorful paintings fairy-tale characters and pop icons; the strange figures created by William Marc Zanghi lives in a kaleidoscope of colours.
Torino: Marcello Buffa, Angelo Crazyone, Stefano Cumia, Martina Di Trapani, William Marc Zanghi; 5 artists present their latest works in the Magnifica Preda’s space, 28 Sant’Agostino st, Turin. This exhibition group is a part of Superstar project. The ironic title “the monsters” is a particolar choose for this event, the inauguration will be thuesday 8 november at 18.30, you can visit the exhibition till 24 November 2012.
“SuperStars” is a Martina Di Trapani project and is born with the partneship with “Magnifica Preda, The vintage way”. A platform for contemporary art, with the partecipation of international artists.
Show: Super Stars – “The Monsters”
Artists: Marcello Buffa – Angelo Crazyone – Stefano Cumia – Martina Di Trapani – William Marc Zanghi
Curator: Valeria Pardini
Period of the show: 8 – 24 November 2012
Location: Magnifica Preda – Artissima Social Club
28, Sant’Agostino st. Turin.
Hours : tuesday to saturday from 16.30 to midnight
Inauguration: thursday 8 november at 18.30
with the collaboration of JULIET art magazine
free entrance
This was the beginning of each episode of the TV series “Monsters”, broadcasted in Italy since 1988 to 1990. An aerial view of an anonymous urban district then a quickly zoom in the house. The camera goes in to a dining room, where there is a family watching TV, they are a creepy creatures eating insects, dressed in normal clothes and they have typical attitude of the american middle class. The monster is always lives in our toughts and in the social imagination, it crowds the fantasies and embodies the fear of what is different ad unknown. However, The Monster also has an exorcising power, because “ to give birth to a monster” is an expressive act that allows overcome fear and shyness to give value ourselves, and let our real essence to flow out, even the worst one.
The group exhibition “The Monsters”, throught the personal artistic style of each artists, play with a double meaning: between the prodigoius amazement of somenthing that suddenly shows and the horrible, the enormous, the strange. Monster and prodigy are synonymous and art, with its universal value, is the way to have a cognitive experience for a social integration.
The outcast and the monstrous creature comes out, in conctact with real world, it lives, interacts and mingles with other people. In this exhibition the painting is the metaphor for social integration, because the painting borns from infinite brush strokes, everyone different from each other, and theese differences come together and create the paint.
Marcello Buffa, Angelo Crazyone, Stefano Cumia, Martina Di Trapani, William Marc Zanghiwith their different style, form an artistic group and their works are populated by strange and particular figures.
Out of the gothic novel and moovie; monsters lives unmolestede and free among other people, in desolate cities or quite in the crowd. The monsters are with us, but now we don't care.
In the Magnifica Preda' spaces, live the haunting faces, whit deep and interrogatives eyes of Marcello Buffa' works, while visual illusion is the artistic strategems used by Angelo Crazyone. Hallucinations of a visionary and utopian generation revive in Stefano Cumia' works; Martina Di Trapani put in her colorful paintings fairy-tale characters and pop icons; the strange figures created by William Marc Zanghi lives in a kaleidoscope of colours.
Torino: Marcello Buffa, Angelo Crazyone, Stefano Cumia, Martina Di Trapani, William Marc Zanghi; 5 artists present their latest works in the Magnifica Preda’s space, 28 Sant’Agostino st, Turin. This exhibition group is a part of Superstar project. The ironic title “the monsters” is a particolar choose for this event, the inauguration will be thuesday 8 november at 18.30, you can visit the exhibition till 24 November 2012.
“SuperStars” is a Martina Di Trapani project and is born with the partneship with “Magnifica Preda, The vintage way”. A platform for contemporary art, with the partecipation of international artists.
Show: Super Stars – “The Monsters”
Artists: Marcello Buffa – Angelo Crazyone – Stefano Cumia – Martina Di Trapani – William Marc Zanghi
Curator: Valeria Pardini
Period of the show: 8 – 24 November 2012
Location: Magnifica Preda – Artissima Social Club
28, Sant’Agostino st. Turin.
Hours : tuesday to saturday from 16.30 to midnight
Inauguration: thursday 8 november at 18.30
with the collaboration of JULIET art magazine
free entrance
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