A group show of international street artists for 15 years of Rosso20sette

From June 13 to July 17, 2020, the Rosso20sette Arte Contemporanea gallery in Rome will host the group exhibition 15 Years of Rosso20sette featuring international street artists on the occasion of its 15th anniversary.

Curated by Tiziana Cino and Stefano Ferraro, the exhibition will feature JR, Obey, Pure Evil, D*Face, Maupal, Marco Rèa, Demetrio Di Grado and Pax Paloscia.

JR calls himself an urban artivist; during some exhibitions, he offers visitors their portrait on a poster thanks to a giant photo booth. His pseudonym alludes to the main character of the American series Dallas.

D*Face became interested in stickers, skateboarding, and punk fanzines as a teenager. His influences include Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant art campaign, Jim Philips, hip hop, punk music, and popular cartoons. He was the owner and curator of theOutside Institute, London’s first contemporary art gallery dedicated to street art. His most recent project was the design of Blink-182’s California album cover in 2016.

Frank Shepard Fairey aka Obey conceived and implemented the André the Giant Has a Posse initiative in 1989: he littered city walls with stickers depicting the face of wrestler André the Gian. The aim was to produce a media phenomenon and to make citizens reflect on their relationship with the urban environment. He later produced the Hope poster reproducing Barack Obama’s stylized face in four-color process, which has become a campaign icon.

Pure Evil began working as a fashion designer and on the California coast started his street art. In London he made works on the streets of the British capital and came into contact with other artists, including Ben Eine, D*face, Paul Insect, and especially Banksy. With them he started Santa’s Ghetto, a kind of traveling gallery aimed at disintermediating art dealers.

Marco Réa alters advertising images, such as billboards and fashion magazine covers, using spray cans to bring new representations to life. He does not perform an act of desecration, but of change and denunciation, painting over images that propose a falsified reality to reveal another more authentic and personal one. He has participated with his works in Paris Fashion Week and is now among the best known fashion illustrators.

MauPal is a multifaceted Roman artist: he is a designer, graphic designer, decorator and set designer as well as a painter and sculptor. In his creative process he includes different media and particular materials each time, such as playing cards, cork, glass, plastic and steel wool, arriving at new results and creating unique objects and works. MauPal shows great manual skill: this is evident in his particular sculptures that are created from different materials that are, however, never distorted, but shown to the public through different facets of their own nature. His mural Super Pope, dedicated to Pope Francis and created in Borgo Pio, has been much talked about. The street artist also met Pope Bergoglio and gave him a painting depicting the Pope in superhero guise.

Pax Paloscia has collaborated for years with the most prestigious advertising agencies and publishing houses, producing important photographic and illustrative projects.

Demetrio Di Grado started the ManSourcing Association in 2012, actively engaged in the promotion of art through its various declinations: urban art festivals with the partnership of numerous national and international artists, curating artistic events that allowed the public to enjoy contemporary art in unconventional places.

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Pictured is Super Pope by MauPal.

A group show of international street artists for 15 years of Rosso20sette

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