"'Magic Fucking Kingdom' The D****Y Show"
MF Gallery
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Most of us remember growing up watching these movies and cartoons.
The lovable anthropomorphic characters accompanied us in our games and imaginations.
Love it or hate it, it is almost impossible to escape this titan's influence.
In honoring the impact these characters have had on our artistic lives, MF Gallery has curated a group show of art that is inspired by Disney's many characters and films.
For the first time ever, MF Gallery has invited this group of Italian artists to show in NYC:
Max Papeschi creates controversial images by juxtaposing smiling cartoon characters with images of war and destruction... He calls his art "Honest Advertising".
Fidia transforms cute characters into lovable anti-heroes. He takes old skateboards- trucks, wheels and all- and carves them into the shapes of the characters, before painting them in acrylics.
Elena Bertoni and Simone Romano are a husband and wife team who collaborate under the name "Anonymous Art". They create both large scale oil paintings in which chartoon characters and symbols appear over wallpaper-like backgrounds, as well as smaller acrylic paintings collaged over old religious texts.
Nicola Alessandrini uses themes from Rennaissance religious art and mixes them with cartoon characters and geometric shapes. He works both on paper and on large scale canvases.
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Schedule
from January 29, 2011 to March 05, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-29 from 19:00 to 22:00