about.

For his fourth solo exhibition in Rome, entitled Futuro Imperfetto (Future Imperfect), Adrian Tranquilli presents a new sequence of work borne out of a reading of contemporary reality based on the notion of an ever more pervasive cultural and social homogeneity in every sphere. Spiritual, religious and cultural concepts – and their symbolic representations – overlap and intertwine, appearing to be drained of their original meaning.

The artist places his characters – drawn from history, Christian, Buddhist and ancient mythology, as well as comic books and cinema – in an imaginary space, or rather a non-space, making it impossible to determine their true identity. With this, he rewrites the stories and fortunes of superheroes and objects of worship, turning them into the exhibits of a future museum of anthropological archaeology.

This vision of reality’s paradigms is at once eclectic and ironic: from the “reality” of the cultural model, to the imaginary and “alternative” examples pertaining to the parallel worlds of cinema, art and comics.

The idea of working across different forms and merging a variety of technical and formal solutions (the use of computer-generated images, wax and resin sculptures) were already features of his previous solo exhibition (Transider, De Crescenzo & Viesti Gallery), in which Tranquilli explored the modes of representation and bodily manipulation in the world of fashion, art and comics.

This exhibition presents ten sculptures made with the most diverse materials (from cement to fiberglass, wood and plastic) and some wall pieces created using the ‘plotter-painting’ technique.

Read and download the exhibition’s press release [ITA].

works.

here below some images from ADRIAN TRANQUILL’s futuro imperfetto.