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Urban Artist

You can see all the images of our collaboration with ROA for our festival of Urban Art in Milan on Square23 Gallery's FB page.

Italian Writer

You can see all the images of our collaboration with PEETA on FB Square23 Gallery page, you will also find the album of his Solo Show !!!

Urban Artist

His art was called "ecological". Its unique style. Artur Bordalo, better known as Bordalo II, is the Portuguese artist who uses waste and recycled materials to shape his fantastic creatures: giant animals, fish, birds and insects. Recycling and assembling tires, damaged bumpers, broken bicycles, car pieces and other waste material, Bordalo II brought its "Big Trash Animal" to walls around the world, from Norway to Azerbaijan, from the United States to Poland . From Square 23, in its first staff in Italy, Bordalo II reduces the size of its "Big Trash Animal" by keeping the style and message unchanged, but also using other recovery materials that allow such a level of detail impossible to reach on surface of a wall. "Decomposed" is a criticism of the consumer society: works depict nature (animals, in this case) through the materials responsible for its own destruction. photos by Livio Ninni

Holland Writer

Text of the catalog by: Pietro Rivasi Photo by: Livio Ninni Microsoft has told her story in the video spot "Surface Stories". The Colosseum Theater in Turin has provided the artist with the facade on Via Bidone. From Tokyo, where he participated in a big public art project, Zedz, one of the most renowned street artist on the international scene, arrives in Turin, from Square23, for his first solo show in Italy, supported by Ceres, in collaboration with Inward EXTRACT TEXT CRITICAL oF PIETRO RIVASI Zedz the route starts from the writing, which is his first contact with art in the mid-80s, and since then, his research focuses on the lettering. From the stamp to the three-dimensional representations, Zedz has created a completely new and different subject from all the 3D research carried out by other leading artists with a background in writing. His point of view is based on a three-dimensional static representation that starts from a "orthogonal" view of the geometries that generate the letters, drawing from the tradition of industrial technical design. The letters are treated as architectural structures that can even become "habitable" if they are translated into large installations, simply being images, such as living space plans, or becoming meticulous three-dimensional models of paper, wood or other materials. Tireless experimentator and multidisciplinary artist, Zedz has pursued a coherent research that combines writing, architecture, graphic design, animation and wall painting. Translation from writing to architecture, in particular, is one of the main nodes of the Dutch artist's career, which in this area has created, including through important partnerships, some of his most important and innovative projects. "Tokyo to Torino" is a snapshot of Zedz's current state of research, and the title of the exhibition is an explicit tribute to the fundamental elements of his art: Japan and Italy, his two "second homes", visual repetition of graphic signs, an important feature of his street name that he had significantly influenced evolution and whose effect is made even stronger by the alliteration, and finally the concept of travel / displacement, an indispensable experience for the creative process. The artist, through the works presented, which he likes to call "studies," describes a world where lines and two-dimensional backgrounds generate overlapping volumes in a game of transparencies, perspectives, clean cuts and complete forms, fine lines or thick; the seemingly abstract works immediately refer to a futuristic imagery, and are once again an evolution of lettering research. ZEDZ - BIOGRAPHY First graffiti on the streets, then studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam and, after graduation, work as an independent artist / designer looking at the typography for the realization of its three-dimensional abstract objects. "Zedz", his name, is the backbone of his work and comes from the graffiti he has been dedicated since he was a teenager. Today, with his works, Zedz aims to break the boundaries of design, lettering and graffiti. In this respect, we have to read the collaboration with Maurer United Architects, which has led to a series of proposals on the theme "Graffiti / Architecture", and works placed in different cities built with huge 3D pieces that serve as urban furnishings. More than in galleries or walls, Zedz's work can now be admired and hand-handed in large, open public spaces. Its areas of interest are architecture, design, public art, graffiti, plastic models, paper and wood, in an interaction and collaboration between different disciplines. ABOUT Square 23, Via San Massimo 45, Torino "Tokyo to Turin", staff Zedz 2 July to 20 September 2015 Hours: by appointment Opening: Thursday, July 2, 18 pm Sponsored by: Ceres With Inward collaboration - Observatory Urban Creativity T: 334.9980390 - E: info@square23.net Sponsored: Ceres Collaboration with INWARD Graphic by Spacenomore Thank you for your heart !!! at the Colosseum Theater Andrea Spoto and sister, without you the work outside would not have been possible !!!

Urban Artist

Collective Exibition of Artists'Vinyls_Cover Art

STREET VINYL Solo SHOW BY XORA Discs cover as contemporary artwork: sometimes ad hoc, such as Andy Warhol's famous Velvet Underground banana sticker; other times as a posteriori, as when the Manic Street Preachers telephoned to Jenny Saville to ask for a picture canvas on a newspaper. Rock, pop, soul, jazz, dance, punk, hip-hop, electronic, classical: an entire record world that gives life to fruitive chemistry between musicians and artists to a new model of creativity. At the Square 23 Art Gallery of Via San Massimo 45 in Turin, from March 4 to April 1, 2017 an exhibition realized in collaboration with Xora promises an exploration of the world of disks, with a collection that spans the last 30 years of the artistic works on vinyl covers of great artists and cult bands, with particular attention to the world of street art. From American writers like Futura 2000 to Rammellzee, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, to the more contemporary as Kaws, with its original artwork and Space Invader mosaics. There will also be original artwork for artists such as JR, Dface, BLu, Borondo, Nychos, Faith47. You will see, for example, a limited edition spray paper made by the mysterious Banksy for the Norwegian music band Röyksopp, or the A / P made for the occasion in Turin directly from Obey, aka Shepard Fairey.Non only an exhibition: collectors will have the chance to find and buy rare disks and cover art, thanks to Xora's long-term research to offer Street Art lovers, almost unrepeatable, the ability to open new horizons what concerns urban art. And if street art today is often unreachable, the show will be an opportunity to have an original piece of art and a precious work with an important revaluation coefficient. Gallery Square23 consolidates, with this exhibition, the collaboration with the Colosseum Theater through the brand Xora. A collaboration that thanks to the works of Zedz, Peeta, NEVERCREW and the last of Bordalo II on the facades of the theater of Via Madama Cristina 71, as well as thanks to exhibitions in Via San Massimo 45, has brought Turin to a prominent place in the panorama of street art and writing at an international liub. Special thanks to: Andrea Spoto for the idea of ​​the exhibition and the fundamental help to structure it. Colosseum Theater for continued support and consolidated collaboration. Press Office: Cocchi Ballaira Photos by Livio Ninni - UrbanProjects

Urban Artist

A Solo Show curated by Luca Indemini_ between legality - challenging the concept and redefining it from time to time - and freedom - of action and expression. Clet Abraham did not leave the "road" and perhaps did not even choose the "road". It could be said that it was found by road and signposts, bulky presence in cities, "colonels of your movements through a language that standardizes us." Signs represent authority. Obligations and prohibitions. Clet, enthralled by the colors and the light of the vinyl of the signs, decided to replace them with the canvas to meet people and interact with their meaning, imperative and constrained. With his work he tries to make them less banal, infusing life in the black man - the "common man" - who lives enclosed in the limited and limiting space of the sign. Everything started in 2009, with the crucified Christ on the "T" of the unexpired street signal. Since then, Clet's interaction with road signs has moved mainly in three directions. Through the Passion, always revisited on the signal of the road no way out; Angels and Demons on the Obligations of Leadership; or the divine hand that emerges from the clouds pointing implacably to the children who run on the danger signal usually found near the schools, has developed a series of suggestions related to the theme of spirituality. Simplifying it from dogmatists and taking it to the street. Among the passers-by. And the motorists. Starting with the black man removing (or sawing) the signal of prohibition, then the artist's reflection on issues of freedom and legality develops. "Road signs are the imposition of institutions, the more they mark the territory." Other points of reflection on the subject are offered by the belt that loosens the loose ban, the ball to the foot added to the homework of the work in progress or the sinking ship, dragged from the anchor of the obligation of direction. There is then a third less definable area of ​​work, only to the lighter and playful appearance. The common man driving the ban on access; the vitruvian man imprisoned in the ban on the prohibition, the arrow piercing the heart or the coin from a euro. And among these, also the works designed for the cities that host them. The common man who unveils the Shroud of the Shroud in Turin, the Eiffel Tower that is engaging in the turning ban in Paris, or the Union Jack emerging in London from the ban. In January 2011, the "common man" lives a fundamental evolution / revolution. It definitively frees the boundaries imposed by the signs, becomes sculpture (human dimension) and passes on the Bridge to the Thanks of Florence. For seven days, before being removed. In Turin Clet, to give three-dimensionality again to his character, he returns to the genesis of his work on the street, transforming the Crucifixion into the sculpture on the unmarked road sign. Opening hours: 11-20, Tuesday to Saturday Galleria SQUARE23, Via San Massimo 45, 10123, Turin Info: 334.9980390 HYPERLINK "mailto: info@square23.net" info@square23.net

Italian Writer

"Hybrids" is an atypical personality. All the works have been made with four hands by Corn79 (Riccardo Lanfranco) in collaboration with other street artists: 108, Andrrea, Aris, Etnik, Eon75, Fabrizio Visone, Francesco Barbieri, Giorgio Bartocci, Giulio Vesprini, Hide, Jeroo, Mach505, Made514, MrFijodor, Proembrion, Rems182, Reser, Romi, Ruas, Vesod, Zoer, ZorkMade. "Hybrids" is a unique opportunity to discover the two-decade search for Corn79: by writing to street art, from the mandala tag. The path that brought Riccardo Lanfranco to realize the cycle of works that make up "Hybrids" is long and detailed. The journey begins in the nineties, the time it enters the world of writing both as an artist and as an important event organizer (Street Attitudes / Picturin). Later, around the middle of the twentieth century, it embraces "post graffiti" or "street art", where the signature (or the peculiarity of writing) is replaced by a pictorial, figurative or abstract representation. Rich in graphics, fascinated by Op art and psychedelic culture, Riccardo begins a second life, choosing as a personal figure an intricate geometry system similar to the Buddhist "mandala" or the Hindu yantra: a circular diagram formed by the association of points, triangles, circles and squares, a complex symbolism that allows the observer an unexpected spiritual path. In the representation, this symbol of ancient history and the many modern interpretations resonates with the experience of writing so that each painting is at the same time given motifs of geometric perfection - borrowed from religious tradition and profane symbolism - and chaotic elements , as the imperfections of urban walls or the use of watercolor paint, often used for the seabed. The transition from signing to "mandala" is important and complex: from the hectic and instinctive activity of the writer's activities, the design and slow work of the geometric representations passes: the tools, the times, the execution methods, the dimensions and especially the subjects. The signature in Roman characters, the ultimate expression of Western individuality, is replaced by a geometric symbol of Eastern inspiration, which embodies values ​​such as spirituality, calm, meditation and empathy, antithetical to the poetics of writing. In its radiance, this change of direction expresses the will to break with the background of origin to reach a different language, which carries messages and values ​​far away from street art, to a large extent, often ruffianally pop or banally politicized. Support remains, urban infrastructures remain and therefore the perishability of the wall work, destined to ruin and disappear due to the weather, just as in the Buddhist tradition, where the "mandala" is periodically "destroyed" to remind the fallen of things and their rebirth. "Hybrids" is the point of arrival of this journey: an atypical personality, in which all the works were made in four hands, in collaboration with other artists. The reason for this choice is sought in the desire to tell both the lives of the artist: on the one hand, the past, the fundamental source of his research, recalled by a "team work" on canvases and cards that evokes the typical teamwork of writing , where the crew plays a key role in the "getting up" of the name and often also in the creation of large works or in situations of particular danger; from the sky the present, in which the abstract figures entering the circumscribed perimeter of the tunnel assume the form of algorithms, moving subatomic particles, molecules and galaxies, infinitely large and infinitely small that determine the limits of human perception and refer back to the spirituality of works on the wall, from which they are detached in technique, in size and often in forms. "Hybrids" is a unique opportunity to appreciate Riccardo Lanfranco's twenty-year research to study the evolving collaborations that have already been consolidated (Mr. Fijodor, Etnik, Vesod, Reser ...) and to discover completely new twists (108, Bartocci, Aris ...) that will enrich another path, another one, starting from here. Pietro Rivasi (Icons Modena, D406 gallery) francesco barbieri · 108 · giulio vesprini · giorgio bartocci · vesod · aris · ethnic · square23 art gallery · mrfijodor · corn79 riccardo lanfranco · andrrea · eon75 · fabrizio minone · hide · jeroo · mach505 · made514 · Proembrion · rems182 · reser · romi · ruas · zoer · zorkmade

Urban Artists

Street Art has become three-dimensional. It has surpassed the two-dimensionality of the wall, to even more boldly invade urban space. From graffiti to the altar. The pace was short, for the mission was similar. And to do it were Urbansolid. The Street Art Pioneers in 3D. Two artists who, having refined the knowledge of molded and of the most traditional sculptural techniques, have decided to re-adapt their artistic and laboratory experience to the communicative urgencies of our day. Because art must speak to the people, and the people need to see what reality a socially committed artist is able to unveil If the real search artist is not the one who seeks, but finds - and indeed finds - in the classics the departure for his own path, we could in a few moments rewind the film of the history of the plastic arts and find again, in plaster creatures and concrete of the Urbansolid, traces of a very old tradition. Ancient enough to go back to the large alabaster slabs upon which the Assyrians sculpted scenes of war in the 7th century BC, or the mythological sculptures of the Parthenon of Fidia. Passing for the celebratory reliefs of the great enterprises of the conquest of the Roman emperors, sculpted on the surfaces of the triumphal arches, to the bestiaries and to the biblical or fantastic repertoire of medieval didactic sculpture, which invaded archives, portals, jambs and capitals. A sculpture that was an open book, and it was in order to educate the people. It is from here, from this last assumption, and from this past-never-past idea, that we must begin to understand what impetus has pushed Urbansolid to bring sculpture into Street Art. The debut was milanese, and it happened almost three years ago, for precision during the days of the Mobile Show 2010. An unexpected out-door, theirs, but which left the mark in the memory of those who lived it. Twenty-five white human headings half-drawn, just above the lips, seemed to emerge from the floor as if they were a legion of homonymous insults against a "one" who was tempted to "emerge." The twenty-five insurgents knocked their nose in protest, while the other was trying to get ahead, pushing upwards with their hands clinging to the floor as if they were immersed in a liquid lie. It was then the turn of the famous pyramid of "Lingotti Anticrisi" installed in Milan in the Business Square, just in front of the Stock Exchange, one morning of September 2011. Nowadays Square 23 Gallery in Turin is choosing to bring the urban sculptures of Urbansolid for the first time in the Piedmontese capital, in a personal exhibition that will extend far beyond the exhibition space. "Cement". This is the title of the show. Because of the concrete bloom and protruding their provocations, on a visual journey halfway between the space and the wall. It is the message that goes to the citizen. Become tactile. Prolonging in chaos with the insinuating strategy of bass and high relief. A message every time explicit, which is reflected in the symbolic clarity of its own plastic representation. And a social complaint cleverly outlined by the multiple logic Street Art, then. But in plaster and cement. And from the high caustic content.

Italian Illustrator and Urban Artist

Alessandro Caligaris is one of the most illustrious Italian illustrators. The gallery has always believed in his art, first presenting his graphic novel "Hoarders", and we very much enjoyed his personal exhibition "Collection on Demand" .A.Caligaris with this exhibition he presented many small works, drawing real, fantastic, difficult, and very real life images. Making the visitor look to his entire vision of art but also his life. You can visit the page, at the link below, on the FB page of the gallery. Good vision.

Urban Artist

Personal show of Ale Puro from 24_09_2013 to 24_10_2013 Gallery Square23, Via San Massimo 45, Turin "In the pure state" The works of Ale Puro Opening: Tuesday, September 24, 18 pm "In the pure state" is the title of the street art artist Ale Pure, scheduled from 24 SEPTEMBER to 24 OCTOBER at Gallery Square 23. "In the pure state" are pictures of a world seen from the eyes of a child. In his works, Ale Puro maintains the raw and spontaneous style of sketches inspired by Modigliani, Haring, Blake and Basquiat, attaching great importance to the instinct and the simplicity of the lines. His characters, carefree and reflexive, ironically reflect the simplicity that surrounds us, but which is often overwhelmed by today's society based on the necessity of superfluity. His designs are suspended between reality and fantasy, his works encompass small stories of disarming serenity, short trips to a fanciful but at the same time real world. ALE PURO Class 1984, 16 years old Ale Puro enters the world of writing. Inspired by different cultures due to his travels to the world, especially Mexico and India, he soon abandons the classic graffiti style to embrace the current Street Art that gives him more freedom of expression. From 2008 to today he has performed live paintings around the world and has participated in collections in Mexico, Monaco and in Italy, Milan, Pavia, Vigevano, Bergamo, Genoa, Savona.

Urban Artist

Lichtenstein, Warhol, Mickey Mouse, the seventies, the deconstruction Russian punk movement, advertising, Fiat, Vespa in the world "Urban Pop" by TvBoy everything is out of context and reinterpreted. The show-event of TvBoy - an artist belonging to the neo-pop movement and the protagonist of the underground Italian and international underground - is a dive into his art made of references and quotations, irony and innocence, denunciation and lightness. TvBoy is not just a name, it's the alter ego of the artist. A figure figure, a character with its head encapsulated in the TV, lost between the child's tenderness and the rocker's power, representing the generation that grew up in the seventies and eighties, looking at cartoons, collecting Panini figurines, under the pressure of marketing and advertising logic. TvBoy is our childish side, is the spirit of rebellion, is the introspection that leads us to confront the absurdity of everyday life. Starting from the road, his message has reached all of Europe and the world, leaving a mark on the streets of Milan as the walls of Havana or in the streets of Barcelona, ​​the city that the artist as his creative atelier. In Turin, for the first time, TvBoy presents his works: works on canvases and paper that tell us, with the power of the image, our "Urban Pop" world. BIOGRAPHY Born in Palermo in 1980, TvBoy has lived in Milan where since 1966 he has become part of the art scene of Italian and international street art, becoming one of the major exponents. After studying painting and illustration at the University of Bilbao he graduated in Milan in "Industrial Design". He has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and international museums, including the Superstudio Più di Milano in 2010, with the publication of the Skira catalog and was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in the "Italians in the World" pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2011 and at the official collateral event of the Venice Biennale 2013 "Back 2 Back". It should also indicate, exhibitions and participations all'Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona in 2007, the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan in 2007, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome in 2008, the We Love Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen in 2008, the Progr Art Space in Switzerland, in Berne, in 2008, at the Artisans' Art Festival in Lebanon, in Beirut in 2008, and in the Zaragoza History Museum in 2006. And then again, urban art events in Spain, Italy, Germany , Switzerland, Cuba and Lebanon. Since 2005 she has been living in Barcelona, ​​where she has her studio and is a professor of design. He has produced projects on prestigious Italian and international brands such as Fiat, Seven, La Rinascente, Smart, Lotto, Nescafé and others. Since 2008, TvBoy has become a brand with collections in fashion and accessories sectors.

Urban Artist

Where Halo Halo passes nothing remains as before. Each surface becomes a canvas, there are no boundaries or borders. His almost obsessive tract goes beyond the frame, continues on the walls, transforms the environments. Not even the Square23 gallery remained immune to its passage. In assembling the "Pythagoras die drowned in yogurt" staff, Luigi Garofalo, his name in the registry, was closed in the gallery for five days: he consumed 5 black markers to paint, point by step, walls and ceiling. An emotional cartography, from which faces, portraits, and letters are written, and here and there its hidden signature. The glimpse through the windows overlooking Via San Massimo is amazing, you have the feeling of being in front of an embroidery, a tapestry of light lace seems to have replaced the walls. On this background are paintings and canvases, which tell the style change in Halo Halo technique. From the works of origins - black and white lines intertwined to create imaginative landscapes, which he, often drawn to bus stops -, Garofalo went to the use of color. From pencil to watercolor, a new source of artistic love. His work keeps that instinctive impression, which is its trademark, but is enriched with a new dimension. That chromatic. And his intricate structures seem to get out of the plane of the canvas, they become matter-of-fact. Among the "castles" illuminated by pink, yellow, blue, red, purple emerge fantastic structures, to compose an imaginary architecture. Chromatic suggestions that leave the spectator the chance to space with imagination in search of his own image. After moving from paper to canvas to large surfaces, the introduction of color, with its amazing results, seems to be a prelude to a new evolution in Halo Halo's search for the three-dimensionality of sculpture.

Italian Artist

Riccardo Nervo is a Torinese artist. Along with the gallery staff we tried to produce an innovative show, Riccardo was locked inside the gallery for 5 days. We have recreated a bedroom and a studio where he could produce jobs hanging on the walls of the artist, all in the eyes of the passers-by, who could see it throughout his day, since he had breakfast at dinner while he slept. The artist was enthusiastically enthusiastic about the project that had a tremendous success via the internet, as he was continually picked up by a webcam that broadcast live-streaming every hour of the day.