FGN Consulting is pleased to announce its partnership as official sponsor of the exhibition “Neo Pop: eternal metamorphosis of a myth,” the anticipated collective exhibition that will enliven the Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art in Cortina d’Ampezzo throughout the 2024-2025 winter season.
The collaboration stems from the strong bond of esteem and friendship between Francesco Noto, CEO of FGN Consulting, and artist Giovanni Motta, one of the exhibition’s protagonists, which subsequently led to the meeting with curator Giorgio Chinea Canale. This synergy naturally led FGN Consulting to support this important artistic event celebrating the Neo Pop movement.
The opening, scheduled for December 4, 2024, will see FGN Consulting’s presence at both the official ceremony and the after party. Throughout the exhibition period, which will extend until Easter 2025, various initiatives and social activities dedicated to contemporary art and the Neo Pop movement will be organized.
The Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art in Cortina d’Ampezzo will open to the public from December 5, 2024, to April 21, 2025, hosting “Neo Pop: eternal metamorphosis of a myth,” a collective exhibition highlighting the work of 15 artists belonging to the Neo Pop artistic movement who have been engaged for years in complex research on new figurative immediate language, capable of reaching an increasingly wider contemporary audience.
The exhibition, curated by Giorgio Chinea Canale and set up on the museum’s first two floors, features some of the most representative interpreters of the late 1980s and early 1990s art scene, including Marco Lodola and Gianni Cella, alongside those who emerged in the third millennium such as Giuseppe Veneziano, Francesco De Molfetta, Fulvia Mendini, Andy Bluvertigo, Pao, Giovanni Motta, Laurina Paperina, and The Bounty Killart, with the participation of two very young artists, Waro and Erk14, and international presence from Tomoko Nagao, Gabriel Ortega, and Albert Pinya.
This collective exhibition aims to spotlight a group of artists who are children of what critics define as the “MTV generation,” authors influenced by the fast-paced aesthetics of music videos and all the joyful and impactful elements from those years. This art feeds on “popular” references to cinema, cartoons, television communication, fashion, comics, and the underground world, while always managing to blend with “high” academic, scholarly, and refined references like the great classics of art or literature.
“Neo Pop: eternal metamorphosis of a myth” opens with two artists who have given Pop art a very personal and original interpretation: Marco Lodola and Gianni Cella. The former with his luminous, essential, and immediate sculptures that have brought light vibration to the vast pop imagery; the latter with his critically and satirically rooted art, tied to the demystification of power, but always in a light and reflective key. They are joined by Giuseppe Veneziano, whose powerful artistic experience enables dialogue between contemporary and ancient, in a perpetual up-and-down between high and low registers; Fulvia Mendini, whose works appear influenced by the world of graphic design and Arts and Crafts tradition, recalling the fairy-tale imagery of Northern European oral tradition; and Giovanni Motta, who through his alter ego JonnyBoy becomes a direct witness to every child’s genius through his nostalgic and introspective reflections.
The exhibition continues with works by Laurina Paperina, creator of universes and parallel worlds whose irreverent and light-hearted language is close to the world of comics and video games; Francesco De Molfetta, constantly searching for new icons revealing contemporary world’s vices and virtues, with his creations often marked by nonsensical and sarcastic short circuits; and Pao, the street art quotient, whose work is imbued with a surrealist matrix, between modification, metamorphosis, innovation, and evolution.
Also noteworthy is the presence of Andy Bluvertigo, an eclectic and multidisciplinary author whose colorful fluorescent imagery often centers on the exaltation of feminine beauty; the duo The Bounty Killart, who stages a disruptive classicism reinterpreted and translated in a contemporary key with sublime and biting tones; the very young anthropologist Waro, who leads us into a world populated by Yu, modular humanoids up to three meters tall who will crowd the planet thousands of years from now, interpreting pop in an urban key that becomes mystical and prophetic; and ERK14, with his study on the apparent chaos of everyday objects with surrealist tones.
The international presence sees Tomoko Nagao bringing from Japan an extremely layered art, made of stylized forms in Superflat style and an imagery rich in satire; Gabriel Ortega, with his elegant and refined style, telling his noble and golden world through paradisiacal visions that speak of his land; and Albert Pinya, from Palma de Mallorca, who with his apparently simple and dynamic poetics has generated a fantastic universe drawing inspiration from cartoons, films, and books.