Here - Cell63

26th April - 27th May 2012
a double solo-show
Michele Guidarini : Art is dead | Paola Verde: La Cité des enfants perdus
OPENING Thursday 26 th April
from 19h30
with perfromances by
Fenia Kotsopoulou - improvisation dance | Nike Brass - body performance
Cell63 artgallery | Allerstr 38 – 12049 Berlin | www.cell63.com | [email protected] | +49(0)30.21970329
Michele Guidarini : Art is dead
What Michele Guidarini has in his mind, as inspiring vision, are the frescos by Giotto and
Michelangelo, which are the painters from his land which he knows better and loves most. Together
with graphic design, commercials and memories. All this pops out in Michele's head, in a constant
shifting process. So his images, at birth, are already moving, and his sign moves over them. The
images in the background are treated and conceived as a background, a scenery, and so strongly
assaulted head-on. Screaming and consumed close-ups, grafitis that sign and recreate a new
personal sacredness, desecrating the original iconified one. There's no intention on reassuring the
observer. Michele Guidarini doesn't draw for who's watching. The artwork is his and he feel free to kill
it. This is Art Is Dead: crushing and nemesis.
Rebirth of an imperfect and consumed iconography. Artistic gesture creator of shapes desecrating an
aritficial sacrality, bringing historical images into the state of being contemporary by virtue of his
modern and aggresive sign, as a daily tattoo.
About Michele Guidarini
I'm a son of the mountain, Monte Amiata, and two candymakers.
I'm the son of Davide Lazzaretti, a pauper saint, killed and of The Clash.
The characters of my paintings walk in my mind, crossing my dreams.
I catch them, I do not let them run away, I tame them into golden frames.
They look at me, they look at you.
Up to today I always came back home.
Michele Guidarini
(1981- ), Arcidosso, Grosseto, Italy.
Artist and graphic designer
Michele Guidarini is an italian artist and graphic designer, coming from Arcidosso, Toscany. He's active
member of the new Italian Pop Surrealist collective, already quite famous in Italy, working with some
of the most renowned italian galleries in the field.
He plays with religious and political symbols and icons -which signed our story and still influence our
present- following the concept “la vita è bella” applied in the moltiplicity of human's visions.
Exhibition list (selection)
"ART WALK HONG LONG" – 2012 - misch masch gallery - hong kong - china
"THIS IS SO CONTEMPORARY group show" – 2012 - ayden gallery / vancouver - canada
"TAROT" 22 ARTISTI PER 22 TAROCCHI – 2011 - studio21 tattoo&artgallery - salerno
"MAX PAPESCHI's FREAK SHOW" – 2011 - teatro franco parenti - milano
"ZIGULINE POSTER EDITION" – 2011 - studio 21 tattoo & art gallery - salerno
"GOD SAVE MICHELE GUIDARINI" solo show- 2011 - mondo bizzarro gallery - roma
"INTO THE FUTURE: Il Pop surrealismo italiano alla conquista del Mondo" - 2011
musei capitolini - centrale montemartini / roma
"ITALIAN POP SURREALISM:NASCITA DI UNA NAZIONE" – 2011 - mondo bizzarro gallery - roma
"TAROT" 22 ARTISTI PER 22 TAROCCHI – 2011 - mondo bizzarro gallery – roma
ITALIAN POP SURREALISM IS BETTER!" - 2011 - rue de beauce - paris
"ONE SUNDAY ART" - 2011 - Circolo degli Artisti - roma
"MONDO BIZZARRO SHOW" - 2011 - galleria miomao - perugia
"ZIGULINE POSTER EDITION" - 2011 - mondo bizzarro gallery - roma
“L’UNITA' VISIBILE – Sguardi contemporanei sull’Italia dalle origini ai giorni nostri” – 2010
parco di pietra – roselle – gr
“ARTELIVE PROJECT” – 2010 – palazzo ruspoli – cerveteri - roma
“LOBOTOMIA.POP!” – 2010 – personale – palazzo aldobrandeschi – grosseto
“MIRABILIA” – 2010 – rojo® artspace – milano
“CECI N’EST PAS UN HOTEL” – 2009 – nhow hotel – milano
“10 + 1 E IL NUOVO REALISMO” – 2006 – CASSERO – GROSSETO
“SPAZIO TEMPO MEMORIA” – 2005 – artlab gallery – grosseto
“COLOR SPREAD” – 2004 – STREETART – GROSSETO
“PRATICARE IL QUOTIDIANO” – 2004 – galleria la corte – firenze
“PRATICARE IL QUOTIDIANO” – 2004 – castello aldobrandesco – arcidosso
Publications
-Interview for COCACOLLA.IT - 2011
-SPECIAL CAFE magazine - 2011
-Interview for MARTE MAGAZINE - 2011
-Interview for FRIZZIFRIZZI.IT - 2011
-ESPRESSO.it - 2011
-REPUBBLICA Roma - 2011
-Interview for ENQUIRE MAG - 2011
-SEMIPERMANENT 2011 BOOK / Australia – 2011
-Interview for TISCO (This is so Contemporary) - 2010
-INSIDEART - 2010
-WAITMAG.COM Talenti e avanguardie creative - 2010
-ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE - 2010
-DOODLEZINE N#4 - UK - 2010
-TOTOS MAGAZINE - MILANO - 2010
-ARTNOVEAUMAGAZINE.COM – 2010
-GORILLA MAGAZINE Contemporary & Underground Art Magazine – 2010
-ILLUSTRATI N#1 (logos edition) – 2010
-TRUST ME MAGAZINE N#1 – 2010
-SEMIPERMANENT 2006 BOOK / Australia – 2006
Paola Verde: La Cité des enfants perdus
Paola Verde born in Milan, Italy, in the same year of punk music and grew up among Joy division's
and Bauhaus's vinyls records and Dave McKean's comic books.
Then industrial music was for her like the sound of a crashed window in the silence of an abandoned
factory, fascinating her. Like that the city-borders became the center of her personal research, from
street art to dismessed industries, from underground culture to the metamorphose of metropolis.
Crossing urban peripheries looking for details of the past, collecting pictures of marginal spaces and
explorating the borders of post human passages and revisiting them in a surrealistic and romantic
key, Paola Verde's photos represent the place where urban decay and neverland are meeting. Her
very own Citè des enfants perdus.
About Paola Verde
Photographer, art curator, urban explorer, architect. In 2009 she moved to Berlin where she founded
the XLAB Corrosive Art Farm project. She works as interior and event photographer collaborating with
magazines, art galleries, musicians and performers.
As art curator she collaborated with international artists of every discipline and exhibited in different
cities of Europe.
In Milano she was the organizer of two big street art events: Where is 101 (2005) and Where is107
(2007), illegal art happenings in huge abandoned factories.
She published two photo books: "Kaos" (2005) a reportage about rave parties and underground
culture around Europe and "Perpetuum Mobile" (2011) a book about Berlin and its urban
transformations made with the painter Andrea Chiesi, who took inspiration from her photographies
to make his personal exhibition in Berlin.
Exhibition list (selection)
27.04.2012 Cell63 (Berlin)
12.04.2012 Spazio Concept / Miart (Milano)
12.11.2011 "The Corrosive Container" @ Spazio Concept (Milano)
17.01.2011 Stroke Urban Art Fair (Berlin)
27.05.2011 " Perpetuum Mobile" with Andrea Chiesi @ XLAB Gallery ( Berlin)
22.04.2011 " Spores" @ Kunsthaus Tacheles (Berlin)
26.03.2011 "KunstWoche" @ Sektor Evolution (Dresden)
21.04.2011 " Tramonto Falck" with Andrea Chiesi @ XLAB Gallery (Berlin)
07.10.2010 Stroke Urban Art Fair ( Berlin)
03.2010 MIART ( Milan)
12.12.2009 "The Invisibile Cities" @ Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art (Bergamo) with Marcello
Gungui, curated by Rossella Moratto
15.11.2009 "Spazi di Confine Spazi di Conflitto" @ Arte Borgogna Gallery (Milano) curated by Rossella
Moratto and Francesca Guerisoli
21.09.2009 "The Invisibile Cities" @ XLAB Gallery (Berlin)
09.06.2009 " I nuovi paesaggi: dove il cielo non e´più blu" @ Galleria Famiglia Margini ( Milan)
curated by Angelo Cruciani
03.2009 MIART (Milan)
19.03.2009 "Muralismo Morte" @ Motorenhalle Gallery (Dresden) curated by Jens Bessen
03.03.2009 "Unscheduled #1" @ Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art (Bergamo) curated by Rossella
Moratto
12.12.2009 " Ritmi Afrofuturisti" @ Csa COX18 (Milano) curated by Rossella Moratto
04.04.2008 " Sinonimi e Contrari" @ Cascina Roma, San Donato M.se curated by Biancoshock
collective
06.11.2007 " B-Side City" @ Zerologico (Milano)
19.05.2007 " Innervision" @ R.D.A. La Spezia, curated by Emanuele Sturlese
04.2007 " Polvere - un viaggio nel´archeologia industriale" @ Zerologico (Milano)
10.2006 "KAOS" @ Niu - Espai Artistic Contemporani (Barcelona)
04.05.2006 "VIDEOPUNTOZERO - un meeting sotterraneo sull´entropia dell´immagine" @ Cafe Liber
( Torino)
06.01.2006 "Underground" @ La Cueva No Art Gallery (Milano)
22.03.2005 " Delicatessen" @ S´Agapo´Arci ( Milano)
04.2003 " Shit Design" @ Fuori Salone - International Design Salon ( Milano)
11.04.2002 " On/Off " @ Fuori Salone- International Design Salon, Politecnico di Milano