URBANSOLID "Cemento" Solo Show

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.