BANSKY

Banksy is a quasi-anonymous British graffiti artist.
He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.
According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s
His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics.
His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
His art has appeared in cities around the world.
Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti.

Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.



Banksy (Bristol, 1974 o 1975) è un artista inglese.
È uno dei maggiori esponenti della street art. Si sa di lui che è cresciuto a Bristol ma la sua vera identità è tenuta nascosta. Le sue opere sono spesso a sfondo satirico e riguardano argomenti come la politica, la cultura e l'etica. La tecnica che preferisce per i suoi lavori di guerrilla art è da sempre lo stencil, che proprio con Banksy è arrivato a riscuotere un successo sempre maggiore presso street artists di tutto il mondo. I suoi stencil hanno cominciato ad apparire proprio a Bristol, poi a Londra, in particolare nelle zone a nordest, e a seguire nelle maggiori capitali europee, notevolmente non solo sui muri delle strade, ma anche nei posti più impensati come le gabbie dello zoo di Barcellona. Nonostante la recente fama mondiale, e le notevoli quotazioni delle sue opere, Banksy continua a rimanere fuori dallo starsystem e a preferire la sua arte in mezzo alla gente comune

Mike Worral

Born 1942 in Matlock Derbyshire, UK
The enigmatic, dreamlike paintings of Mike Worrall are often inspired by historical themes. Informed by his work in film, Worrall deals with the sublime in his hyperreal depictions of the mysterious. As in a dream, the quiet façade and the beauty of the large scale oil paintings masks the intriguing content and enormous energy underpinning the works.

I have been painting since the early 1960's and am almost entirely self taught. I still retain the basic technique and style developed in these early years. I am committed to exploring the subconscious and I like Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst amongst others.
I've worked in the feature film industry as an Ideas Artist. You can see my work on Alien III website. I was told by Roman Polanski that a painting of mine he had, gave him the idea of making the film Macbeth. He based the second scene on the painting. I have works in the collections of Victor Lownes, Alan Price of the Animals, Roman Polanski, Nicholas Roeg, Vincent Ward, Alex Proyas and many others.
As a child I was always intrigued by paintings involving some sought of mystery element. So I have tended to be drawn in this direction myself. Get the viewer guessing and wondering what it's about! Quite often I’m not sure myself but for some inexplicable reason it might work as a picture. I might not understand it myself even. It may be an expression on a face or just a pose or location.
I'm a firm believer that I should not have to attempt to explain the enigma to people and that the picture should retain some mystery for a lasting interest. This I hasten to add is not so with all work off course! I’m only referring to my surreal content paintings!

WILLIAM MORTENSEN THE FORBIDDEN FANTASY

William Mortensen was a popular celebrity portrait photographer in the 1930s, churning out glam images for the movie magazines. But he was also a rebel whose special effects images prefigure the age of Photoshop.

Book critic Cary Loren has a great essay about Mortensen's work on bibliophile blog A Journey Round My Skull. He writes that Mortensen's arresting, bizarre work has been mostly forgotten because it didn't fit into the early twentieth century's passion for photographic realism. Unlike influential contemporaries like Ansel Adams, Mortensen refused to reproduce what he saw realistically.

Basta Un Poco Di Zucchero e...A Spoon Full of Sugar

"A Spoon Full of Sugar"
just that spoonful of sugar to 'elp
the medicine go down
.... medicine go down

L'arte irriverente di Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye personalità originalissima, estrosa e penetrante allo stesso tempo.
Il suo lavoro è l’esatta traduzione del suo spirito e del suo pensiero: le opere, quasi sfacciatamente pop ed irriverenti rispetto all’aura di rispetto attribuita all’arte – lui non disdegna di mischiare e confondere gli stili, i soggetti e con essi le nostre esperienze e certezze – trasgrediscono ogni schema e, in ogni contaminazione che le compone, acuiscono il senso tanto di ciò che sembrano dissacrare quanto di ciò che paiono celebrare. L’estetica (se non anti-estetica) di Delvoye si volge alle cose di tutti i giorni, alla gente comune, alle consapevolezze diffuse e a queste, in una cortocircuitazione rappresentativa e di senso, sovrappone, fino ad ibridarle in nuove risultanze, contenuti e riferimenti più importanti e profondi. Davanti ai suoi interventi non si rimane immuni dall’essere immediatamente divertiti, ma di conservare poi anche una certa drammatica impressione di disorientamento.
Nelle sue opere appare forte l’elemento dell’ironia, dell’irriverenza, della dissacrazione. Ogni dissacrazione è il risultato della lotta di classe o, per lo meno, il mettere in questione l’ordine sociale.
Poi ci sono anche i maiali tatuati, resi pelli o sculture.
La sua opera, forse la più conosciuta, la Cloaca, che non è altro che una macchina per produrre escrementi, un progetto complesso ed elaborato.

Wim Delvoye è nato a Wervik nel 1965. Vive e lavora tra Grand, Berlino e Pechino.

Wim Delvoye is a fervant empiricist.
His work is of a hybrid nature, a good example
being Cloaca, the famous mechanical digestive apparatus that produces “artists’ shit”.
He takes a shrewd pleasure in abolishing distinctions between beauty and ugliness and purity and impurity by mixing craftsmanship, technology, the scatological and the sacred. Delvoye has created the metallic, gothic-inspired chapel with stained glass windows containing subversive imagery specially for Mudam.
The artist makes reference to his own work in black, grey and coloured glass. Obscene gestures, kisses, human intestines and skeletons from Cloaca are x-rayed, thus gaining the status of pagan stained glass windows.
His x-rayed pieces of meat unveil their atheist message thanks to the light that
stained glass once rendered divine.
The skulls, the bones and their by-products are grimacing, cynical modern vanities.

http://www.wimdelvoye.be/

Sera

Nel tepore della sera

mi sussurri dolci parole d'amore

sotto l'archivolto della tua schiena

ho inciso una frase oscena

Viktor Pivovarov

Viktor Pivovarov' (Russian: Виктор Пивоваров; born 1937) along with Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov, he was one of the leading artists of the Moscow Conceptualist artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His work reflected the complete ideologization of the Soviet lifestyle, often simultaneously expressing nostagia and disgust for this lifestyle.

Pivovarov was also a prolific illustrator of children's books, with over 50 books to his credit. He moved from Moscow to Prague in 1982, and continues to live there to date.