Catalogue - factory-art gallery

OZMO (GIONATA GESI) - IT
FACTORY-ART gallery
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Ozmo alias Gionata Gesi, demonstrates his spectacular
ability to use different techniques and style according to
the context he is working in, be in a public area, urban
setting or art gallery, As a street artist he has to come
up with original style, combining graphic design and
illustration(sticker and posters) with art history references
(in some of his painted murals). In his paintings, on the
other hand, the artist adopts two distincts approaches.
The first, based on free association, consists in a
post modern interpretation of visual sampling, which
in this case gives rise to an artistic babel, a chaotic
accumulation of cross-references and citation. His other
technique is based on selecting images generated by
entering a keyword into an internet search engine.He
then mixes and interprets these existing fragments in an
attempt to come up with new meanings.
In occasion of his last project in march 2012, for the
prestigious Museo del 900 of Milan, located in the
monumental heart of the City, called ‘Pre Giudizio
Universale’, he was acquired in the great collection of
the Museum itself , as the first italian so called ‘street
artist’ taking part in such a institutional context and
definetly consacrated to the mainstream art scene.