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Barry McGee. [English Edition]

Fondazione Prada

Milano, Fondazione Prada, 11 April - 9 June, 2002.
English Text.
Milano, 2002; paperback, pp. 304, b/w and col. ill., cm 15x24.

ISBN: 88-87029-21-0 - EAN13: 9788887029215

Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture),Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures),Monographs (Painting and Drawing),Photography

Period: 1960- Contemporary Period

Places: No Place

Languages:  english text  

Weight: 0.92 kg


Intended specifically for the Fondazione Prada?s space in Via Fogazzaro, this huge installation devised by McGee is entitled Today Pink (2002). This is entered through an unusual and decidedly bewildering passage, which, when one emerges, turns out to be the back of an overturned truck. In the exhibition space one finds oneself in a chaotic scene, consisting of abandoned vehicles covered with graffiti, figures painted on huge metallic or monochrome walls, and fragments of lighter, fluctuating objects.
This is a world rich in signs and symbols that contain references to life in today?s cities and are linked to images of American culture ? such as the large, enigmatic figure of a Native American painted upside down on a wall made of rusty iron sheets. As in the aftermath of a road accident, two abandoned vehicles invade the space. On their bodies the artist has painted his familiar faces, which, with their sad eyes, are a reminder of bowed, resigned humanity. ?The presence of this male figure is kind of like this everyman, and it?s very specific to San Francisco, where there?s a huge homeless population that everyone wants to be free of [?]. The subject is to do with graffiti and the homeless? kind of like an outcast, things that the city is trying to get rid of, or trying to hide, or pretending doesn?t exist.?*

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design e realizzazione: Vincent Wolterbeek / analisi e programmazione: Rocco Barisci