A four hands project from Rise Above and Scarful on iconology, in collaboration with Profile Expo & Grab Magazine.

The two roman artists realize a multidisciplinary concept in which they describe themselves today, through simbologies in classical culture, encoded four hundred years ago by Cesare Ripa, che fin dal 1593 rationally classifies the numerous allegories and simbologies layered up in centuries of cultural history.

Figures coming from classicism, religion, philosophy as well as arts, crafts or simple popular traditions, reviewed in an encyclopedical work in which in which figures and oggetti simbolici vengono accorpati e rielaborati con sapienza.

An impressive overview of iconographic figures, each one describing a modus, a virtue, a phisical or mind place , an attitude or character.

From december 23, 2010 to january 10, 2011 on 
MON · TUE · FRI · SAT, from 10am to 7pm, at Profile Expo – Piazza di Spagna, 51 · Roma.

Here below the customized shades by Olimpia Zagnoli, Scarful and Cento Canesio for the Art Shade Expo at bastard store.

Olimpia brings her colorful universe, overpainting every corner of her BPM shade, including lenses.

Scarful worked on the surface, drilling and digging a pair of Detroit with a Dremel and other sharp tools.

Cento Canesio gave birth to a bicolor version of the Hardknox, applying his iconography on it through a thin black marker on gray spraypaint.

On Thursday June 10th, 6pm to 9pm, Electric presents Art Shade Expo at the bastard store in Milano.

Pick three artists, give’em a pair of Electric shades each and wait for their own custumize version.

The artists we picked for the italian edition are Olimpia Zagnoli, Scarful and Cento Canesio.

Olimpia Zagnoli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1984.
She moves to Milano where she graduates at IED school. Soon after she starts working for several magazines in Italy and abroad. Her clients include the New York Times, the New Yorker, il Corriere della Sera, Feltrinelli, Io Donna.

Alessandro Maida a.k.a. Scarful was born in 1968 and he’s a Rome based artist and designer. After his artistic and university studies in Architecture and Design, he became interested in all things pertaining to graphics/illustration and lettering and began working as a graphic artist, creating the Hateful Graphic Vandals collective (1995) together with other writers/artists from the Roman scene. This brought about his first graphic creations under the name of Scarful. He is a member of the WHY STYLE group, together with artists Joe, Nico, Pane and Stand, with whom he has taken part in exhibitions and events since 2003.

Cento Canesio, artist from Veneto born in 1974.
Since 1989 he started being influenced by the skateboarding, writing and the music scene that came along.
He’s already collaborated with: Lobster, Vans, Strange skateboards and bastard.

bastard store – via Scipio Slataper, 19 – Milano [here the Google map].

On Tuesday October 27^th at 18,30, Oscuro Scrutare will grand open at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milano. It will feature the works of Tommaso Gorla, Marco Klefisch, Scarful, Luca Barcellona, Dem, 108, Allegra Corbo, MP5 and a live experimental jazz performance with Gianluca Petrella and Cristiano Calcagnile.

Last night we attended  the Blacknuss presentation, which is an awesome, handfinished, illustration book curated by Giorgio Di Salvo, one of the two minds behind VNGRD, with whom bastard actively collaborates.

You’ll find inside the works of Erik Brunetti, Le Messie, Scarful, TJ, Pane, Giorgio Di Salvo as well as Marco Klefish and Luca Barcellona (aka Bean One), this last one featured in the bastard Artistuff collection with a graphic on global warming.

If you want to get a copy the only way is writing directly to the curator: gds(at)giorgiodisalvo.com

Blacknuss

Marco Klefish

Luca Barcellona