Banksy and other street artists are on display at PAN in Naples with about 70 works

Entitled Banksy and (post) street art, the group show dedicated to the underground art movement takes place at the PAN Museum in Naples from December 23 to February 16, 2020.

The PAN Museum has already tackled in 2015, with the Shepard Fairey #OBEY exhibition, the delicate topic of street art as an artistic expression in its own right, and on this occasion curator Andrea Ingenito offers the public a broader narrative, which takes life from the most discussed artist of the moment Banksy, and then moves on to the exuberant and colorful Mr. Brainwash and Obey ’s works that are inserted as links between the first two rooms, and then concludes the discourse with the Italian Mr. Savethawall.

The choice to open the itinerary with Banksy is not accidental: in addition to being one of the main protagonists of the current artistic scenario, the British street artist has a special bond with the city of Naples. His first mysterious apparition in the city dates back to 2010 with the mural (later unfortunately vandalized) representing theEcstasy of St. Teresa, and after a short time there was the stencil in Piazza dei Girolamini called the Madonna with a gun. These, moreover, are the first traces (and until recently the only ones) of the English graffiti artist in Italy. It does not seem to be a coincidence that Banksy immediately chose Naples to sign in his own way the cradle of art par excellence. Just as Banksy -thought dictates, Neapolitan culture also makes irony and irreverence its personal response to what it considers injustices by the system.

In this context, Mr. Brainwash, on the other hand, represents the evolution of the figure of the street artist, worldly everypopular who does not disdain the good salons of the jet-set, while OBEY chooses the term “Obey” as a provocative response to the dictates imposed by the mass-media, who became famous with his “unauthorized posters” spread during Barak Obama’s election campaign, and is the most “politically engaged” among streetartists. Finally, Mr. Savethewall representsItaly in this excursus, proving to be a voice out of the chorus, able to take in stimuli from the languages used by his colleagues, reworking them with personal irony and critical spirit, through a low-impact technique that reserves the wall from permanent damage.

Through a shortlist of about 70 works from private collections and foreign Italian dagalleries , unasala video and unasala selfie, the artistic phenomenon of the moment is told, with all the contradictions and constant questions that their protagonists deliberately reserve for the viewer.

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Source: press release

Banksy and other street artists are on display at PAN in Naples with about 70 works

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