The Urban Art Superstars group show Back to list
24.Apr.2009
to 25.May.2009
10am
until 9pm
@ Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina,
Napoli
, Italy
The most exhaustive exhibition on urban art presented in an Italian museum showcases some of the most important names of the young contemporary art scene. It all goes down from April the 24th until May the 25th at MADRE- Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples.
After years of discussions on the limits between art and comics, the most “comics - corrupted” artists will invade the Napoli Comicon festival, including Gary Baseman, Boris Hoppek, Shag, Ian Stevenson, Gary Taxali, Jeremyville (shown above), Mijn Schatje, Jon Burgerman, Jim Avignon, Junko Mizuno, Glenn Barr, Bigfoot, Naoshi, Ciou, Sergio Mora, Nathan Jurevicius, Joe Ledbetter and others from all over the world.
To complete the scene, Urban Superstar will present the huge installations of Junko Mizuno, Mijn Shatje and Tokidoki from the Fornarina private collection, presented during the Urban Beauty Show in 2008 at Louvre in Paris.
Jeremyville from Australia and Mijn Shatje from Paris will also be guests at the inauguration, offering performances and meetings with the public. We’re not sure exactly what these performances will include, but apparently people will be involved to participate to the performance.
Curator David Vecchiato remembers: “During these years we refused to be tamed by the logics of old art employees asking us to stop with this imaginary similar to comics, cartoon, tattoos and graffiti. We experienced on our skin the slowness of our country, facing to lose the opportunity to tell the creative souls of our generation.
"As uncle Warhol taught us, we learned how to manage personally the production, distribution and sale of our own art and we reached our international colleagues. Bringing this vital art from street into a museum, I hope to encourage new young artists from any country to develop new aesthetic senses within their community, with the main purpose to focus on the passions which join us, rather than on the differences that move away".
Details at www.museomadre.it