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Studio Stefania Miscetti opens the season with Adrian Tranquilli solo show, an installation entirely made of new works, which is an additional chapter of the specific visual narration conducted with coherence and rigour by the artist. In fact, he handles with themes and overlapping symbols which are at the root of various cultures.

As in recent personal exhibition All is violent, all is bright at MACRO – Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, visible until November 2011 – on this occasion the artist presents a high visual impact work, focused on the dialogue of the hero (a constant mythical and epic figure from the ancient times until today) which is presented with some symbols strongly entrenched in our collective imagination, like the Latin and Greek cross and the swastika.

There is an echo of Kazimir Malevich 0.10: the last futurist exhibition in In Excelsis solo show, where the artist wonders about the nature of symbols and on their transposed, ambiguous or manipulated meanings.

Dealing with the concept of the sacred, and mostly with the sign system which embodies it, Tranquilli’s works try to open a door to look beyond the crystallized meaning, revealing multiple, stratified and multipurpose senses.

With the obsessive attitude of an anthropologist, Adrian Tranquilli already tries to unhinge the superhero allure in works such as These Imaginary Boys (2004), The Age of Chance (2005), Don’t Forget the Joker (2006), and now he comes back with another series in which he shows us a hero deprived of his invincibility and power, an ideal protagonist of a contemporary culture which is in a deep crisis status.

Read and download the exhibition’s press release.

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here below some images from ADRIAN TRANQUILLI’s in excelsis.