Vernissage on the road per FRISC’, installazione site-specific dell’artista Trallallà. Venerdì 7 ottobre 2022, alle 18.30, “OnDaRoad”, il progetto di street art e scrittura nato da un’idea del giornalista Ciro Cacciola
With the new installation “FRISC'” by the Neapolitan artist Trallallà, known for his now iconographic “ciacione” sirens, “OnDaRoad” continues on Friday 7 October 2022, at 18.30 pm, the street art and writing project born from an idea by the journalist Ciro Cacciola who transforms the entrance door of the Graus Edizioni publishing house in Vico Seminario dei Nobili 11, Naples, into an official exhibition space.
Like the three that preceded it (by the artists Unplatonic, Checuorehai and Whatifier), this one by Trallallà – a generously sized mermaid wrapped in flames – is an ephemeral installation, made of paper and glue, a site-specific work, in mixed media, conceptual and figurative, completed directly on site by the author.
“Frisc'” is a reference to Purgatory, which in Naples is the most important of the otherworldly realms, because it grants hope, because it is not definitive, as perhaps nothing else is in these parts”, says the artist. The title is in fact borrowed from the most traditional prayers of the Neapolitans in which they wish the souls in Purgatory to stay “cool” (in Neapolitan, precisely, “frisc”), that is, far from the heat of the fire (of Hell).
Trallallà was born in 1968 in Naples, the city where he lives and works.
The OnDaRoad Project
In the heart of the Old Town of Naples, a stone's throw from the San Domenico Maggiore Complex and the Sansevero Chapel Museum, in Vico Seminario dei Nobili, at number 11, there is a single independent door that, when it opens, "on the street", leads to the world of words of Graus Edizioni, an equally independent publishing house.
Today's Neapolis is increasingly an open-air museum, rich not only in ancient architecture and art but also in works, provocations, and installations by many street artists - Neapolitan and otherwise - who choose the fascinating decumani to leave their marks, launch their messages, or simply exhibit their works.
In this vein, in clear reference to Jack Kerouac's masterpiece and in homage to street culture, to Street Culture, to underground movements, Ciro Cacciola, head of special projects at Graus Edizioni, came up with the idea of transforming the "little door" into a canvas, a white space officially available to Street Art, on which each artist, for a month or so, could place his "work", in dialogue with all the history, architecture, art, humanity and anthropological heritage of the ancient and ever-modern Neapolis.
The project, which benefits from the collaboration of photographer Sergio Antonuccio, will host for this first edition the works of 10 artists who will alternate from month to month, to conclude in May 2023 with a collective exhibition.
Article published on 4 October 2022 - 11:50
