"SOME PEOPLE ARE SO POOR, ALL THEY HAVE IS MONEY!"
Via Gramsci 42 28066 Galliate NO
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PETER HIDE 311065
arte contemporanea VIOL@ARTE
Via Gramsci 42 28066 Galliate NO
Tel. +39 0321.864068 e-mail:
07 > 28 may, 2017
Pending his participation in PADIGLIONE TIBET during the 57th BIENNALE OF VENICE, a personal exhibition celebrates PETER HIDE 311065 at Galliate, Via A. Gramsci, 42, from Viol @ rte - Art Emotions.
The exhibition features more than 30 works by the artist and staged the "Bath of money" performance already performed successfully in Varese in 2010, in Berlin in 2012 and in Venice in 2013.
BIOGRAPHY OF PETER HIDE 311065
“Several years ago I chose PETER HIDE 311065 as my stage name (my real name is Franco Crugnola), creating an oxymoron between PETER PAN (the eternal good kid) and Mr HYDE (the brutal and dark side of Mr Jekyll). The two characters are both very well known, the former representing goodness, innocence, purity and beauty, and the latter evil, cruelty and brute strength. As in R. Stevenson's novel, where the uneven struggle opposing Dr. Jekyll (goodness) and Mr Hyde (evil) puts at stake evocative issues like metamorphosis and doubles, mirroring and look-alikes, striking an intimate chord, so in my work I try and recreate the evil that can prevail upon us through an easy going and lively image. I try and represent the opposites through our day-to- day life images, in apparent harmony, and to open a sort of imaginary door towards the danger of overwhelming ephemerality in the mind of the viewer that wishes to read deeply. In current society, where everything is measured by money, it often feels that not only is the matter subdued, but also intangible. The part that mostly defines the human being, namely the money, to me represents the danger of a vast cultural decay, and by contrast the decline caused by being without it. I don’t mean to depict poverty, physical and psychological violence, environmental decay, graphically or in a pictorial way, but I don’t want to represent the beauty generated only by manipulating affluence, the almost divine feeling of power and the dream of happiness, either. What I want to do is make you ponder on what we bustle about and die for: money.”
The exhibition features more than 30 works by the artist and staged the "Bath of money" performance already performed successfully in Varese in 2010, in Berlin in 2012 and in Venice in 2013.
BIOGRAPHY OF PETER HIDE 311065
“Several years ago I chose PETER HIDE 311065 as my stage name (my real name is Franco Crugnola), creating an oxymoron between PETER PAN (the eternal good kid) and Mr HYDE (the brutal and dark side of Mr Jekyll). The two characters are both very well known, the former representing goodness, innocence, purity and beauty, and the latter evil, cruelty and brute strength. As in R. Stevenson's novel, where the uneven struggle opposing Dr. Jekyll (goodness) and Mr Hyde (evil) puts at stake evocative issues like metamorphosis and doubles, mirroring and look-alikes, striking an intimate chord, so in my work I try and recreate the evil that can prevail upon us through an easy going and lively image. I try and represent the opposites through our day-to- day life images, in apparent harmony, and to open a sort of imaginary door towards the danger of overwhelming ephemerality in the mind of the viewer that wishes to read deeply. In current society, where everything is measured by money, it often feels that not only is the matter subdued, but also intangible. The part that mostly defines the human being, namely the money, to me represents the danger of a vast cultural decay, and by contrast the decline caused by being without it. I don’t mean to depict poverty, physical and psychological violence, environmental decay, graphically or in a pictorial way, but I don’t want to represent the beauty generated only by manipulating affluence, the almost divine feeling of power and the dream of happiness, either. What I want to do is make you ponder on what we bustle about and die for: money.”
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