Featuring: Ron English, Sas Christian, Colin Christian, Kris Lewis, Zoe Lacchei, Francesco Lo Castro, Dalek, Rocky Grimes & Lebo.
FURORE: a thread, red as blood and thin as a scream, in this story told by Francesco LoCastro and Dorothy Circus Gallery, draws together the artistic expression of the greatest exponents of Pop Surrealism. An example is the picture of a young Andy Warhol by Ron English, who already at the end of the Nineties was amazing us with his pop pantheon composed by late vintage characters. There are women with eyes full of rage, tempting lips like candies and porcelain skin, as if they were vinyl dolls, hyper-realism masterpieces by Sas Christian and the incredible huge silicone sculptures by her husband Colin Christian, androids that hold in their pose and in their eyes the ancestral disturbing sensuality of female rage, explosive both in their forms and colours. Kris Lewis’ portraits, filled with the shady seduction of young girls showing the symbols of their modernity in an almost nineteenth-century mould. Nine amazing geishas by the Italian artist Zoe Lacchei, who used to work as illustrator for Marilyn Manson, carried out with an unexceptionable traditional Japanese technique like those of the renowned artist Takato Yamamoto. A telling through a sequence of faces, an irreverent procession of furious souls – each one guided and protected by the spirit of different animals that symbolize and characterize them in a perfect expressive symbiosis. Francesco Lo Castro, who brings us to the dreamlike and ghostly aspects, sometimes delirious, typical of Pop Surrealism, with his stormy “Girl And The Sea”, wrapped in fire and hanging on furious seas and his constant research of an emblematic close-up on the social dynamics belonging to a fading American dream. The show will also include the crackling geometries of Dalek who, through his gears, evokes space robots marching and beating an electronic time, Rocky Grimes’ paintings that materialize the scream of the American underground and the ironic figures of Lebo, poetic interpreters of a new creative turmoil. An unrepeatable slide that captures, hypnotizes, and feeds the same passion and the same fury that enliven the artists. For this event, and inspired by FURORE, the Italian musician Giorgio Baldi has composed an exclusive soundtrack as a tribute to these Pop Surrealism masterpieces.
