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Spazio S8zero continues its exploration of the different languages of contemporary art, turning its attention to the area of artistic production that returns to traditional iconography and marries it with the new culture of mass media. Adrian Tranquilli belongs to this area, insofar as he creates, through the reworking of images originating from the most diverse of contexts, an original and poetic universe of signs that emphasises the crisis which today’s culture and societal models are currently going through.

BELIEVE marks a natural progression and development in Tranquilli’s practice, which is made evident by solo exhibitions such as Sei Senza nome (“You have no name“; 1995, Rome, Oratorio dei Filippini and Studio Stefania Miscetti), Futuro Imperfetto (“Future Imperfect”) and Evidence (1998 and 2001, Roma, STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI), in addition to The Golden Dream, created with Zerynthia, a contemporary art organisation in Colleferro.

His work has also featured in numerous galleries, museums and public spaces, both in Italy and abroad, such as the National Gallery of Modern Art and the National Institute of Graphic Design in Rome, the Castelnuovo Museum in Naples, the PAC in Milan, the MAK in Vienna, the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin and the Dalì Museum in St Petersburg, Florida.

The S8zero gallery space has also become an integral part of the project. The artist has created a kind of obligatory itinerary whereby, in a series of spaces varying from the cramped to the extensive, successive multimedia installations invite us into his imagination, one peopled by apparitions, presences and characters from the world of (superhero) comics, cinema, history of art and religion.

Tranquilli’s work is born of an analytical approach to the global cultural model and its symbolic representations, as well as a reflection on technological development and the ever more evident fusion and intersection of different languages and models. His oeuvre is technically diverse, ranging from sculpture to installation, from photographic work to the digital processing of images, to video and interactive projects.

BELIEVE features new sculptural-installation pieces such as Hulk-The Incredible (polyurethane, plaster and resin) and Believe (plaster cast resin, powdered granite), the installation Extasy -The Golden Dream (resin sculpture and soundscape), the three-part video Imperfect Future, the photography piece This Final Cut, Evidence and the new interactive project The Other One.

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here below some images from ADRIAN TRANQUILLI’s believe.