The Civic Gallery's investigation of contemporary painting in Italy continues. Now it's the turn of Pop Surrealism, an artistic movement born in the United States in the 1970s that mixes the iconographic references of mass culture, Pop, with the fantastic references of Surrealism.
Ranging from painting to sculpture, graphics to illustration, and even street and digital art, Pop Surrealism is considered a bottom-up phenomenon (born and emerging from below), in contrast to more institutional contemporary art, and is now highly appreciated by the market and collectors.
Post-modern, ironic and desecrating, he delves into the codes of art history and the visual imaginaries of an increasingly globalized and interconnected world. The exhibition presents the works of fifteen Italian artists, starting with Nicola Verlato, who was the first to be interested in and influenced by artists from overseas, during his American stays during the 1990s.
