Livelli 3rd Edition

On April 28th, 2018 Galleria Varsi presents the third edition of the "Livelli" silkscreen exhibition in collaboration with 56Fili.

The exhibition this year focuses on the technical possibilities of screen printing in order to bring out the artistic work directly, using the media not in a classical way but bending them to the need of each individual artist. For each of them a personal research was carried out aimed at satisfying the different aesthetic needs, thus succeeding in obtaining original works made directly in screen printing and not simply reproduced.

For this edition, 56Fili and the Varsi Gallery have chosen to invite five of the most important international urban artists: 108 (IT), Graphic Surgery (NL), Sten & Lex (IT), Tellas (IT), Zedz (NL ), who worked within a year in the screen printing laboratory.

Arturo Amitrano, curator of the 56Fili project, has gone beyond the previous editions, investigating and encouraging artists to experiment on different media such as paper, textiles, plexiglass and lenticular film.

108 - The artist has reported in the screen printing production the same approach that he uses in the creation of his works. Through the use of different media, such as masking, freehand drawing on glossy, spray typographic screens, he was able to reproduce in silk-screen what is usually done on canvas.
Most of the production is based on the production of diptychs in which the traces left by the color on the matrix of the first work become the basis for the realization of the second, creating a material and formal bond between them.

Graphic Surgery - The Dutch duo has made two productions, recalling a theme dear to their artistic research based on growth and degrowth. From these concepts the two series are developed: Increment and Decrement. In the case of the first of these series the possibilities of silk-screen production are expressed in six subjects, translated in turn into eighty unique works, thus giving rise to a multiplicity of variations on the same theme that differ in color and complexity of composition.

Sten & Lex - Their usual medium is the stencil (manual technique similar to silk-screen printing). The use of screen printing has allowed them to go further and to experiment with new artistic solutions that can not be achieved only with the stencil technique.
In particular. The printing on lenticular film gave them new impulses and ideas based above all on dynamism.

Tellas - In this project the Sardinian artist confronted the fabric as a support. Based on neutral colors, he created various color gradients and subjects on fabric scraps glued and sewn together that combine to create the finished work. The different material composition of the fabrics used has contributed to adding strength to the typical elements of the production of Tellas that here merge into a patchwork of colors, illustrations and shapes.

Zedz - Zedz's serigraphic technique, used by the artist to create unique works, is developed starting from a single matrix from which, at each printing step, a single portion of the subject is extrapolated through masks.
The works carried out are differentiated by type of supports (paper and plexiglass) overlaid with each other in compositions that also reach four layers. Also important in this context is the experimentation on large formats, unpublished in the previous silk-screen production of the artist.

The exhibition will be accompanied by video projections and audio perceptions that enrich the vision, thanks to the collaboration of Alice Siesto (Chicana Film) and Matteo De Santis (Magic Nenio).

For the occasion, Libri Finti Clandestini of Milan has created a series of twenty Artist Books with the waste material of screen printing production.

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