Sound zero

A new form of realism appeared on the international scene at the beginning of the seventies with a simple and direct art, definitely "popular" that embraced also music. Pop is easiness of communication. In the artistic field colored objects, simplified images appear, in music simple and clean sounds. Reality enters art with its objects and its sounds. The first section Top of the Pops is a collection that spans from artworks to record covers. In A Gadda Da Vida (title of a renown Iron Butterfly album, 1968) is the title of the second section dedicated to psychedelic, visionary culture that produced extraordinary graphics. The hyperbole of colors and of the always moving forms, gives the idea of a world in ferment. Art becomes a trip trough time and space. In the seventies and especially in the United States and then in Europe a street metropolitan culture appears, made of graffiti, music beats, of Rave Parties, of words spoken for the problems of those who live precariously and for the outcast. The section Where the Streets have no Name envelops both the American and the European world. Exhibited are painted walls, historical photographs, recent artworks by Beautiful Losers. Book jacket.