In the marvelous setting of the Galleries of Italy at Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano the London Shadow exhibition will take place in the colorful Via Toledo in Naples. The English Revolution from Gilbert & George to Damien Hirst. The exhibition recounts the spirit of artistic renewal that began in Great Britain between the end of the XNUMXs and the early XNUMXs under the name of YBA (Young British Artists).
At the end of the decade, in their early twenties and still students, these young artists saw an opportunity to rompere with the past and the generation that had preceded them and impose itself on the present scene with vehemence, proposing new signs, messages and expressive codes.
The point of reference in this context was Damien Hirst, a charismatic, irreverent and provocative character who in 1988 organized the first exhibition, Freeze, set up in the former port offices of the London Docks.
The title of the exhibition refers to a work by Gilbert & George – two artists active since the end of the 60s and forerunners of those irreverent temperatures that will characterize the second half of the 80s. The London Shadow exhibition summarizes in 23 works the tensions, the ambiguity, the vitality and the contaminations of the English culture of the last decades, until today.
From 19 October 2018 to 20 January 2019, three works by Damien Hirst will be exhibited at Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, including Problems, loaned by the artist himself and coming from his studio in London; but also the canvasses by Jason Martin, Ian Davenport, Marc Quinn and Julian Opie, the photographic series by Darren Almond, the minimalist installation by Liam Gillick, the written Things by Martin Creed, and again the reflective work of Gillian Wearing, the blind photographs of Douglas Gordon, the interventions of Mat Collishaw and Gavin Turk.
To complete the exhibition also the experiences of the young female artists of the YBA who enhance the themes of feminism touching on wickedness and explicit sexuality. This is the case of Tracey Emin's neon, Sarah Lucas' sculptures, Sam Taylor-Wood's video installation.
