First exhibition in Rome for the German Kiddy Citny, who with Die Welt im Arm opens the BQB Art Gallery exhibition season, inaugurating the opening chapter of the series of four solo shows scheduled until June 2018. A pioneer of the scratchwork on the Berlin Wall, musician and representative of the most vital underground culture of the last decades of the past millennium, from October 5, opening day, until November 21, proposes in Via di Panico 23 a selection of twelve works realized in 2016 and 2017, a new production that is linked to the imaginary that made him famous in the' 80s.
Citny began to cover, with images and messages of freedom, the western part (the only one painted up to the fall) of the barrier that for 28 years has split the current German capital in two, starting from 1984. Performed as symbols of hope and disobedience, his Kings and FacesHearts, enormous crowned faces or faces in the form of a heart, reassuring presences on the grey absurdity of the curtain, have watched over three metres high some of the most disturbing pages of history. There are different elements that have been added to this initial nucleus over time: figures appear that support worlds in the arms; King children or queens; Magicians; but above all, women, still with bewitching faces and eyes well focused on reality, or more often in provocative attitudes, talking about sexuality and taboos.
For the exhibition at the Baronato Quattro Bellezze, the themes of the beginnings return, although there are incursions into the recent figurative past, with two great female subjects with an ancestral aspect. The images, as usual in many of his works, are surrounded by short slogans, single words, or quick sentences with disarming evidence, as clear and direct are the messages of the works: if the FacesHearts allude to duality and union, the Kings and Queens, in a preponderant number in the exhibition, tell of how one should feel every day, to walk head-long despite everything. Kiddy has always turned to the road, and from it he has drawn his vision:"I am directed towards an art that feeds on our daily life, an art that emerges from these lives, and that nourishes their truths".
Born in Stuttgart and raised in Bremen, Kiddy Citny (1957) arrived in Berlin in' 76, where, between a series of breaks - in' 79 he was in Amsterdam and London, in' 80 in Zurich, in the years 1989-1990 in Bern, in' 93 and' 94 in Los Angeles and in 2000 in Munich - he still lives and works. Founder, at the end of the 70's, of the musical project O. U. T., which was also collaborated with Nina Hagen, in the 81's she gave birth to the record label Kassettekombinat and to the historical post punk formation Sprung Aus Den Den Wolken, with which she followed for several seasons the tours of the Einstürzende Neubauten. Pas Attendre is used for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders' Il Cielo sopra Berlin. Known above all for being among the first, with Thierry Noir, Christophe Bouchet and a few others, to intervene on the Wall, covering with graffiti meters and meters of curtain, during the dismantling many of its sections were sold and today they are scattered between Europe and America. Primarily dedicated to painting since the beginning of' 90s, he has taken part in the East Side Gallery, the longest open-air art gallery in the world, on the remains of the Wall in the eastern part of the city. He exhibited in Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Berlin, Merano, Paris, Vienna, New York, New York, Los Angeles, Dubai and Bangkok. His works are permanently present in museums and public spaces: at the Märkisches Museum in Berlin; in La Defense (Paris); in New York in 53rd St. Plaza and the Intrepid Museum; in Leipziger Platz and Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; in the Salsali Private Museum, Dubai and the Musee-Würth, France.
Info: InformationKiddy Citny |Die Welt im ArmPersonal painting exhibition by Kiddy CitnyCurated by BQB Art Gallery
Inauguration: Thursday, October 5 at 6.30 p. m.From 6 October to 21 November 2017Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday 12.00am-24.00pm
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