Nevercrew has created a magnificent new mural titled “Close Up” for Arte Urbana Lugano, Switzerland. The artists say, “This work wants to evoke at the same time an estrangement and a focus on a little part of the balance in which we’re all involved. A perceptual estrangement from the overall balance, from the awareness of each one’s role in it, but also a physical distortion and a forcing that comes from human attitudes and actions.
A balanced structure that’s apparently decontextualized and simultaneously heavily connected with the context, and that in relation with the context highlights its fragility when proportions are no longer how they should be. A small part taken from the whole that surrounds us and affects us all.”
The Swiss artistic duo (Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni) have been working together for more than twenty years on urban art, installations and sculptures. The pair officially formed Nevercrew in 1996, and have since created urban interventions in New Delhi, Varanasi, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami, il Cairo, Vancouver, Gisborne, Lucerne, Turin, Berlin, Grenoble, Paris, Bayonne as well as participating in numerous group shows worldwide.
The relationship between mankind and nature and on the relationship between mankind and the system is central to Nevercrew’s work – in particular on the effects of human attitudes on the environment, on social injustices and on the relationship between the concept and the forms of “systems” and an essential, natural, human and animal truth.
The whale, for Nevercrew, brings with it all its history, the excessive power of industry, exploitation, dehumanization, pollution, while maintaining a strong empathic and communicative value as a living being in an absolute, almost iconic and decontextualized sense. What an almighty addition “Close Up” is to Lugano!
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