ADR. DOUBLE|U

DOUBLE|U is the second personal exhibition of the young Italian street artist ADR, curated by Tiziano Tancredi and planned from October 13th to November 7th at the Parione9 Gallery in Rome. Following The Bestiary, an exhibition opened in February 2016, the southern Italian artist presents a new project dedicated to the classicality and the female figure. The name of the exhibition, DOUBLE|U, that is the transcription of the pronunciation of the letter W, reminds of two Ws: the first refers to Aby Warburg, an historian and art critic who created the idea of the Nachleben der Antiken, namely “survival of the classic age”.
The second W refers to “Woman”, namely the decision to exclusively represent women. 

The classicality, inexhaustible source for Greek-Roman artists, survived to this day although it went through the renaissance and the neoclassicism. In DOUBLE|U, there are references to the Greek mythology, even though they are purposely fragmented in favour of a free interpretation of the subjects in a contemporary version.

Inside the development of ADR’s project, another medium was added, the Polaroid: every artwork is the result of the model’s Polaroid portrait. Using this method, the transformation from the photo to the canvas or small paper portrait adds another mythological variation to the image. This whole process takes Warburg’s Nachleben to its maximum expression. 

ADR stays true to his street artist nature, therefore he affixed posters portraying his women throughout the alleys of the centre of Rome.

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