After 7 years working with the most vibrant contemporary art avant-gardes, and as a result of the recent collaborations such as the one with Hennessy and the Brazilian street artists Os Gemeos, Dorothy Circus Gallery wants to focus its skills and energies on a worldwide resonance tour of events, which will see as protagonists recognized street artists of undisputed international fame, asked to interpret, with their personal touch, social and environmental urban issues.
“Spray for Your Rights” will start with the solo exhibition of the Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra, titled “Peace”, which will open next May 9th, 2014, in conjunction with the artist’s painting of a 15mt mural on the facade of MAAM Museum “Museo dell’Altro e Dell’Altrove”, curated by Giorgio de Finis, which faces the historical Via Prenestina in Rome.
For his first solo exhibition, worldwide awaited, Eduardo Kobra chooses to work in the Eternal City, dedicating to Roma 10 brand new kaleidoscopic portraits of the leading personalities who fought in the name of Peace.
The vintage imaginary that, together with the fragmentation of the faces, represents Kobra’s code, brings to life a very special photo-realistic texture, in strong contrast with the urban scenario in which it is inserted. His huge paintings are characterized by the sudden spreading of colors, as he uses different techniques such as painting, airbrush and sprays that render his majestic artworks hyperreal and out of any scheme.
Topic of his works are the fights against pollution, global warming, deforestation and war, but also about the “makeover” of some timeless icons, such as the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, father of the city of Sao Paulo. Among his most important artworks are his interpretation of Mount Rushmore, the famous 1945 photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, the portrait of Mother Teresa in Los Angeles, Anna Pavlova in Moscow, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and the 2Pac in Miami.
Spray for your rights is a campaign of awareness that wants to move through the exaltation of the individual artistic talents and the different cultural backgrounds of the artists involved, by underlining the multicultural aspects of Rome itself, as well as the artists’ selection. As an urban renewal project of the city, Spray For Your Rights aims to address and support important social issues such as violence against women, environmental protection and animal rights, as well as the fight against homophobia and racial discrimination.
The goal of this project is to create “walls of sharing” that, through the personal sensitivity of the artists involved, could represent a creative reading to awake the attention of the citizens, to arouse wondering, and to evoke deep reflections.
Kobra’s mural, dedicated to Malala Yousafzai at MAAM – Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove, on Via Prenestina 913, is curated by Alexandra Mazzanti and sponsored by Dorothy Circus Gallery.
