Parra is a busy man at the moment, having just finished his show in LA recently, the dutch artist takes his captivating work to Italy with a new set of works for a new solo exhibition.
Galleria Patricia Armocida of Milan is proud to present “The Disco Of Italo”, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Piet Parra, opening on Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 PM.
Originally from southern Holland, he’s considered a “cult” artist by graphic designers and communications specialists. Parra is an artist with a myriad of talents: illustrator, graphic designer, creator of Rockwell Clothing, DJ, and musician in Le Le and Parra Soundsystem.
For this exhibit, the artist will present canvases, original drawings, new prints, posters, and a site-specific installation.
Parra is known to lovers of his illustrations for the themes and motifs which have become unmistakable and distinctive trademarks of his style: flat, highly saturated colors, vibrant typographic hand-drawn letters, and worlds inhabited by hybrid, bizarre, surreal characters. Men with bird heads, fleshy and voluptuous women with round sensual bodies, mixed with texts and themes that span from sarcastic and introspective, to ironic and bold, all the way to nonsensical.
The title of this exhibit, “The Disco of Italo”, is an amusing homage to the phenomenon of “Italo Disco”, a term coined in 1983 by a German named Bernhard Mikulski, which later became famous worldwide as the synonym for dance music made in Italy.
Opening: May 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Dates: May 19, 2009- June 19, 2009
Location: Galleria Patricia Armocida, Via Bazzini #17 -20131 Milan
