Brain Dead, “cerebralmente morto”, è la nuova favola di Laurina Paperina, dall’apparenza innocua, ma che in realtà costituisce un’appropriazione corrosiva e denigratoria nei confronti dei cliché dei cartoon. I personaggi incarnano il momento in cui l’icona mediatica viene attaccata dalla creatività di base e trasformata in segno antagonista, diffuso dall’esercito “barbaro” degli street artists, delle fanzine auto-prodotte, delle comunità on line. Le vicende si caricano così di contenuti molto “poco consoni”, tanto più spiazzanti in quanto il finale non riserva alcuna morale che li ricomponga in un’affermazione di buon senso. Il tutto costituisce anche un omaggio ai primi film del regista Peter Jackson, capolavori del fai-da-te cinematografico,
esemplari per il rifiuto radicale di qualsivoglia gravame edificante in contrasto con lo scorrere travolgente dello show.
Brain Dead, is Laurina Paperina’s latest fairy story, seemingly
harmless, but in truth made up of a corrosive and denigrating
appropriation of the clichés of cartoons The characters embody the
moment where the media icon was attacked by the underlying creativity in an antagonistic way and spread by the “barbaric” army of street artists, home-made fanzines and the on-line community. The events acquire a rather “unseemly” tone and this is even more disturbing because the end of the story does not offer any kind of moral to suggest affirmation of common sense. All of this is also a homage to Peter Jackson’s early films, masterpieces of DIY cinema, exemplary pieces for their courageous and radical refusal of any kind of dogmatic burden which stood in the way of the enthralling flow of the show.
*Info:
Nov 24 > 17 Jan: 'Brain Dead' - Solo show
Galleria Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
opening: sabato 24 > h 18:30
www.laurinapaperina.com
www.perugiartecontemporanea.com
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some of my next and currently exhibitions:
Feb 19 2008:
'Laurina Paperina' - Solo Show
Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
Jan 24 2008:
'Laurina Paperina' - Solo Show
Siemens_artLab/Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien
Oct 03 2007 > Jan 06 2008:
'Inner Child: Good and Evil' - Group Show
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, USA
Oct 05 2007 > Jan 06 2008:
'From_&_To' - Group Show
Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
Dec 5 > Dec 9 2007
'Pulse Miami' - art fair
Presented by Perugi Gallery
esemplari per il rifiuto radicale di qualsivoglia gravame edificante in contrasto con lo scorrere travolgente dello show.
Brain Dead, is Laurina Paperina’s latest fairy story, seemingly
harmless, but in truth made up of a corrosive and denigrating
appropriation of the clichés of cartoons The characters embody the
moment where the media icon was attacked by the underlying creativity in an antagonistic way and spread by the “barbaric” army of street artists, home-made fanzines and the on-line community. The events acquire a rather “unseemly” tone and this is even more disturbing because the end of the story does not offer any kind of moral to suggest affirmation of common sense. All of this is also a homage to Peter Jackson’s early films, masterpieces of DIY cinema, exemplary pieces for their courageous and radical refusal of any kind of dogmatic burden which stood in the way of the enthralling flow of the show.
*Info:
Nov 24 > 17 Jan: 'Brain Dead' - Solo show
Galleria Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
opening: sabato 24 > h 18:30
www.laurinapaperina.com
www.perugiartecontemporanea.com
-------------------------------
some of my next and currently exhibitions:
Feb 19 2008:
'Laurina Paperina' - Solo Show
Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
Jan 24 2008:
'Laurina Paperina' - Solo Show
Siemens_artLab/Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien
Oct 03 2007 > Jan 06 2008:
'Inner Child: Good and Evil' - Group Show
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, USA
Oct 05 2007 > Jan 06 2008:
'From_&_To' - Group Show
Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
Dec 5 > Dec 9 2007
'Pulse Miami' - art fair
Presented by Perugi Gallery
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