Photo: Agitacja's Crew
EUROPUNK:
punk visual culture in Europe, 1976-1980
EUROPUNK is the first international exhibition that until March 20, 2011, at the French Academy in Rome, will present the production of alternative punk in the field of visual arts in the second half of '70, in especially that made in the United Kingdom and France, but also in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. It was 1976 when the Sex Pistols performed for the first time on television in the program "So It Goes" for Granada Television in Manchester, and it is this video that opens the exhibition between obscenity and visual creativity. From the first room through the British group is then introduced art punk, but not confined exclusively to the music: The aim of the exhibition is to reflect on the fact that visual revolution brought to Europe by the movement during his peak. Walking through the rooms of the Villa Medici meet so many images of mass culture as a tool used against the company, where the punk gets part of its identity: the urgency of producing counter-culture as free as possible is a tendency which is the reason and the motor current 'anarchist'. They are thus exposed to the first works by Jamie Reid, who invented the famous Queen's face with eyes and mouth covered by the name of the band the Sex Pistols and the title of the song "God Save the Queen, Malcolm McLaren, creator, manager and deus ex machina of the same band, or the French Bazooka team (consisting of Olivia Clavel, Lulu Larsen, Kiki Picasso, Loulou Picasso, Ti-5 Dur, Vidal Bernard and Jean Rouzaud) that are exposed to the abundant production remained anonymous for long and find after a time extensive research across Europe. For the first time were then brought together more than 550 objects, some well known and others are unusual, as clothing, fanzines, posters, leaflets, drawings and collages, album covers, movies, along with other material from private and public collections. The exhibition is an invitation to discover first-hand how punk has been the sincere desire to overcome the past to achieve a cultural renewal of society. Precisely because of the deep political roots and the wide social and artistic effects that failed to generate the movement is still synonymous with energy and creative freedom, and continues to inspire generations of artists.
By Martina Lacey
Open to the public Friday, January 21 - Sunday, March 20, 2011 every Thursday evening opening hours until 23:00 hours 10:45 to 13:00 / 14:00 to 19:00 [Closed Monday]
Academy of France in Rome - Villa Medici Viale Trinita dei Monti, 1 - 00187 Rome, Metro: A English / Bus: 117-119
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