SUPERVISED Independence is Rero’s first show in Italy and the title is an oxymoron the artist uses to examine society with a series of rhetorical sentences. Alexis Rero made his mark as a street artist creating ironic, dystopian phrases on walls in abandoned spaces and erecting wooden letters in beautiful open fields in the French countryside as three-dimensional sculptures. His signature is a line crossing through words suggesting both a question mark and a negation of meaning.
He replaced traditional stylised graffiti letters with clear, bold letters that enhance the provocative one-liners designed to play with stereotypes and the phrases that infiltrate our lives from the internet. Some of the works in his new show are like abstract expressionistic paintings recalling the weathered, distressed walls he worked on as a street artist. Others are experiments with new materials and different forms of wordy installation...
He replaced traditional stylised graffiti letters with clear, bold letters that enhance the provocative one-liners designed to play with stereotypes and the phrases that infiltrate our lives from the internet. Some of the works in his new show are like abstract expressionistic paintings recalling the weathered, distressed walls he worked on as a street artist. Others are experiments with new materials and different forms of wordy installation...
