is a tsunami of images that is intended to invade the museum: a crowd of hundreds and hundreds of images and figures of Ed Templeton, the Andy Warhol or perhaps better Basquiat America today. In the "Graveyard of Reason" is the title of the exhibition, photographs, drawings, acrylics, sculpture, video, clips, sound interventions tell the stories, emotions and acquaintances of the last fifteen years of vital and dynamic Templeton. Fifteen years in which the artist, now thirty-eight, he has performed directly involved, and not just a spectator, in the suburbs of America, with violent and tender, places no place, no measures or half measures. Are split on teenagers in search of an identity, a band who live boredom by turning on a skateboarding, the blood of their fallen, the tribes of the night, drugs and dating burned in small hotel rooms. The artist goes deep, living worlds, not merely to record them with the eyes of an entomologist. The expression is rather lightweight, almost reworkings of fanzines described or better, and chaotic adolescent diaries of life.
began as a skateboarder Ed Templeton, sport that continues to practice. And it is the sport that allows him to bring at par the youngest, recording and research crisis, dreams, desires and fears. What pours in his images is a world that knows well for having lived on her skin. It tells of sex research and sex, anxiety, aggressiveness, problems and joys in the lives of passage. Without judging, if anything, offering opportunities and keys to understanding those who wish to understand without previously excluded. For him, this is called the label of "street art, street art, made of a jumble and extraordinarily alive and languages. Templeton expresses a constant contamination of photos and painted images, graphics and writing intervention: murals, tags, graffiti, advertising, but also music, in a bundling of visual codes and behavior.
The exhibition tells the story of a professional skateur, a photographer, a designer, a painter, a street kid out of the tunnel, a strict vegan, a commercial success, a fashion designer (in States, his shoes are a symbol of creative freedom). A story that, while leading to its events, however, exceeds the autobiographical dimension to strip, with courage, social phenomena.
difficult to classify the work of Ed Templeton (1972), grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, teenager torn between skateboarding and punk, both escape routes and means of salvation. The sport gives him a successful 21 years and founded the "Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, a leader of a border territory, an urban culture outside the norm. The passion for painting to the discovery of explodes Schiele, David Hockney and Balthus. And hand in hand, the passion for photography. At the beginning is an analog camera, which allows it to create your own images. As continues to be both sporty and artist, and eternal myth street kid, Templeton does not want to choose, will not be limited to one discipline in their artistic expressions. Photography, painting, sculpture, his eyes are equal and complementary. His works he uses record impressions, anecdotes, feelings, to join the writing and the story. The images show unfold, all together, personal stories and histories of complex groups, a "Cemetery of Reason 'lived and told crudely but without urgency.
SOURCE (IlCimiteroDellaRagione-Nuoro).
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