ETN!K "COD 505"

"5005" is the blue, dark, intense, deep color code, used by ETNIK and a symbol of darkness pervading the atmospheric atmosphere in which its compositions and urban landscapes fluctuate. With Etnico, the "invisible" cities of Italo Calvino become the "prospect" cities that show their dark side: imprison man, disrupt nature, and destroy living beings. There is no escape. The battle nature faces against the constant growth of cement is vain. Men have no escape, isolated in their solitude, or imprisoned in their forms. In the works on display, the city - deconstructed in fluctuating geometric structures, including palaces, barracks, classical views and industrial architectures - becomes a cage in which the human being (s) is trapped. What emerges is an ironic and sharp critique that encapsulates the contradictory relationship between Etnik and the city: on the one hand constraint and prison, on the other source of inspiration and expressive "cloth". In all works the letters that make up its "Etnik" tag are a constant presence, though apparently unrecognizable in their transformation into geometric masses. SQUARE 23 ART GALLERY via San Massimo 45, Turin 8 May - 26 July ETNIK - COD: 5005 by Alessandra Ioalè