DIAS DO DESASSOSSEGO, FOR FERNANDO PESSOA AND JOSE’ SARAMAGO
A mural celebrating Fernando Pessoa’s and Josè Saramago’s poetry for the festival DIAS DO DESASSOSSEGO.
Location: Rua Patrocinio 110, Lisbon
A mural celebrating Fernando Pessoa’s and Josè Saramago’s poetry for the festival DIAS DO DESASSOSSEGO.
Location: Rua Patrocinio 110, Lisbon
Opiemme, To Stephen Hawking, 2018, Pic Gabriella Di Muro
A project for Museo Arte Urbana Torino, thanks to Street Art Tourino
Some images of the workshops made with guys/girls of the schools are displayed in this video at 1:55′ (press “5” after starting the video).
A video by Yoicik Group
Hyuro (Argentina) – No title
Kasia Breska (UK) – Łódzkie totemy/Totems of Lodz
Know Hope (Israel) – No title
Moneyless (Italy) – No title
Nespoon (Poland) – No title
Nomad Clan (UK) – Mokosz/Mokosh
Opiemme (Italy) – Remanufacture/Herring
Tellas (Italy) – W środku zimy/Deep Winter
City of Lodz, Poland, 2017 Lodz 4 Cultures Festival I Urban Forms
“Street stars” is sarcastic.
“In lovely memory of my father…”
New murals for Urban Forms in the quarter of Bałuty on occasion of “4 cultures Festival“.
All the works are based on the alphabet created by Władysław Strzemiński, used for creating the logo of the city of Łódź.
The building is an elementary school in Ul. Bojownikow Getta 3 street, Bałuty, Łódź.
Critical essay by Claudio Cravero
‘The constant Learner’
“Remanufacture and Harring. A tribute to Władysław Strzemiński”
Urban Forms Foundation and Lodz 4 Cultures festival, Lodz, Poland , 2017
A video by school “Via Giuseppe Messina”, Cinecittà, Roma
A text by Urban Forms Foundation introducing the performance experience of Taurus in Poland:
A wall and workshop for “Crossing the Borders – Intrecci fra arte e migrazione”
The wall is inside the Ostello of San Desiderio, Genova, and was enterily realized by attendees of the workshop.
A project realized thanks to: PECO – Progetti Europei di Cooperazione Genova, danzacontempoligure.org,
Goethe Institu Genua
A text by curator Karin Gavassa:
«Opiemme mural represents the first verse of Nirvana Heart-Shaped Box, the first single taken from In Utero. Opiemme tribute is a cascade of pure black letters shaping an heart of 30 square metres on a 100mq facade deep in the city centre of Follonica.
A fall of colors performance for L’aperto Festival, Roccavignale (Sv)
Duration: 20′-30′
Background music by Yel Bosco
Ph: Viktorija Gedraityte Riga
A light installation for Magma Museum in Follonica, Tuscany, 2016
A performance and an street poetry installation of “poetry scrolls” for the festival Dialogarti, directed by Alessandro Dall’Olio and Gruppo 77 (Bologna).
The Woman of the Apocalypse (or Woman clothed in the Sun, γυνὴ περιβεβλημένη τὸν ἥλιον; Mulier amicta sole) is a figure from Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation (written ca. AD 95).
The text describes “a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars” (12:1). The woman is pregnant and about to give birth, “travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” (12:2).
Light installation is situated in a private church close to Siena, Tuscany
Phrase: A woman dressed in light
Paris, 29 November 2015
This year I took part in Brandalism action in Paris with a work on “balance”.
Brandalism is a revolt against corporate control of the visual realm. The Brandalism project sees artists from around the world collaborate to challenge the authority and legitimacy of commercial images within public space and within our culture.
All the artwork is unauthorised and unsigned. This is not a project of self-promotion, and none of the artists names or websites appear on the works: we believe there are already enough private interests taking ownership of our streets.
The first Brandalism Takeover took place in July 2012. Two friends, sick of the visual pollution of their city, spent 5 days reclaiming 36 billboards in five cities around the UK.
BRANDALISM PROJECT
Massive advertising takeover campaign in Paris highlights corporate stranglehold of UN climate talks
Over 600 artworks critiquing the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks were installed in advertising spaces across Paris last night – ahead of the United Nations summit beginning this Monday.
Amidst the French state of emergency banning all public gatherings following the terrorist attacks on 13 November in Paris, the Brandalism project has worked with Parisians to insert unauthorised artworks across the city that aim to highlight the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.
The artworks were placed in advertising spaces owned by JC Decaux – one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising firms and an official sponsor to the COP21 climate talks.
Other prominent corporate sponsors of the climate talks such as Air France, GDF Suez (Engie) and Dow Chemicals are parodied in the posters – whilst heads of state such as Francois Hollande, David Cameron, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Shinzo Abi also feature. The artworks were created by over 80 renowned artists from 19 countries across the world including Neta Harari, Jimmy Cauty, Banksy-collaborator Paul Insect, Escif and Kennard Phillips – many of whom featured at Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition in England this summer.
Joe Elan from Brandalism said, “By sponsoring the climate talks, major polluters such as Air France and GDF-Suez-Engie can promote themselves as part of the solution – when actually they are part of the problem.”
One of the artists taking part said, “We are taking their spaces back because we want to challenge the role advertising plays in promoting unsustainable consumerism. Because the advertising industry force feeds our desires for products created from fossil fuels, they are intimately connected to causing climate change. As is the case with the Climate talks and their corporate sponsored events, outdoor advertising ensures that those with the most amount of money are able to ensure that their voices get heard above all else.” The art works were installed on ‘Black Friday’ or ‘Vendredi Noir’; the most hectic and competitive shopping day of the year.
Other posters called on people to take to the streets as part of the “Climate Games” – the world’s largest disobedient adventure game [4] as well as protesting the “Solutions 21” conference – a large corporate exposition being held at the Grand Palais during the climate talks.
Bill Posters from Brandalism said “Following the tragic events on 13th November in Paris, the government has chosen to ban the big civil society mobilisations – but big business events can continue. The multinationals responsible for climate change can keep greenwashing their destructive business models, but the communities directly impacted by them are silenced. It’s now more important than ever to call out their lies and speak truth to power. We call on people to take to the streets during the COP21 to confront the fossil fuel industry. We cannot leave the climate talks in the hands of politicians and corporate lobbyists who created this mess in the first place.”
Luglio 2015, Gavorrano (Grosseto)
Parco Nazionale delle Colline Metallifere, Teatro delle Rocce
1 Agosto – 11 Settembre
“Pyros, il vuoto del fuoco.” Un progetto a cura di Karin Gavassa.
July 2015, Castionetto di Chiuro, Sondrio
INTRALCI is a project by Manuela Colombera and Daniela Bruseghini for Ambriajazz.
A “solo trombone” by Gianluca Petrella on a colorful performance by Opiemme.
Thanks for the pics: Andrea Magri, Dimitri Nube, Luca Durand, Marina Magri, Giulia FOcardi, Michele Bordoni
December 2014, Argentina
Some new murals painted with Gualicho in Buenos Aires, and in Mar de Plata for the 5th edition of ‘Bienal Del Fin Del Mundo’, thanks to ‘Ginnastica della Visione’ curated by Paolo Angelosanto.
ON BROOKLYN STREET ART
BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO
October 2014, Como, Italy
Don’t steal my freedom, 2014
A monument to Bicycle’s freedom
Located in Piazza Volta, Como
A public installation for Comon and Streetscape3
Photo by: Emanuele Scilleri
May, 2015 Nowhere
The installation was supposed to be removed on November 2014.
At the end of May 2015 it was still in Piazza Volta, beloved of the people.
You can see several photos on Instagram by checking out #dontstealmyfreedom
December 2010, Turin
Originally entitled: “The pig and the young lady”
Soundtrack by Signal Electrique (Fr)
Footage by Jacopo Montaldo
After shooting the female actor didn’t want to appear in the video, scared of being called “Miss shit”.
In order not to waste this footage, Opiemme decided to patiently cover her face in each frame with letters to express her feelings.
In January 2011 this action took place again in Turin as a group performance by citizens and schoolchildren.
An article by L. Indemini on La Stampa
A journey through painting and poetry
July 2013, Turin
A record mural. A river of words on the pavements of Turin: seven kilometers signed by Opiemme.
Water has no shape, it’s docile and malleable because it adapts to whatever it encounters. And it is exactly water the theme that has united two neighborhoods, Barca and Bertolla on the northern outskirts of Turin. Once known as the district of washerwomen and boaters. An area however, in which small shops are being smouthered by large supermarket chains. In order to try to change, at least in part, this situation, a project was created one year ago to support local trade called Relive Barca Bertolla. The idea is to capitalize on public space which, based on a proposal by the Public Baths of Via Agliè, will be an urban installation of street art and poetry by the artist Opiemme, who will decorate 7km of pavements with a river of
words, connecting in this way the two areas with writing on the theme of water – an element which has marked the history of both neighbourhoods. […]
An article by Claudia Giraud on Artribune
Photos by Thuy Duong Nguyen and Claudia Giraud
“Solaris” site specific project (4x3m) at “Green Area” of Step 09 Contemporary Art Fair in Milan for Bi-BOx Art Space Gallery. Based on a poem by Maria Ivana Trevisani (Ecopoetry).
On ArtsCharity, China (more infos)
https://www.stepartfair.com/
https://bi-boxartspace.com/
Inspired by Pantera’s album “A vulgar display of power”, this performance is entitled “A polite display of power” .
A non-authorised protest against traffic. Pedestrians and bikers simply take over Piazza Statuto in Turin.
A “Traffic Kills” performance.
Photos by Oleg Besoulovs
November 2007, Turin
“During the exhibitions night even bus stops change colour” (La Repubblica 12.11.2007)
Texts and poems by famous writers who lived and passed through Turin, formed a fluorescent bus stop.
An installation made for “Nuovi Arrivi” group show at “Accademia di Belle Arti”, during Artissima Art Fair.
Lasted 1 month.
After a 20 years of media dictatur, Italy find itself fall in a cultural disgrace, socially disconected, virtually lost, unable to react, chaosly administrated.
Future is not there anymore, a new kind of state is coming up. Here as well as anywhereelse.
Welcome to a Dystopia Age.
The project is from 2005, first exhibited in “Nuovi Arrivi” in Turin.
WE LIVE A LIMITED FREEDOM LIMITED BY LIBERTIES.
This work reflect on this situation throught NO SIGN
NO DREAMING NO BREATHING NO THINKING NO REMEMBERING
NO CHANGING NO HOPING NO HOPES