Thursday 28th November 2013 from 18.00 to 22.30Via di San Salvatore in Campo 51, Roma.

Varsi Gallery pays tribute to street art with an artist as explosive as she is vagabond,Alice Pasquini. Currently one of the most established names on the Italian andinternational scene, with her solo show, Take Me Anywhere, Alice shares highlypersonal works that live entirely on paper.

The public art Alice leaves on walls across the globe first live as sketches, brought with theartist city by city in order to carry out her next cultural intervention. Sketch is the key wordof the exhibition, with the urban environment that Alice draws on paper later beingallowed to live on a wall that passersby encounter spontaneously. This trick occurs thanksto the continuous contextual research that the artist has carried out since the start of hercareer. Born during long journeys across the globe, the sketches depict lived experiencesand faces encountered, creating Alice’s personal archive of the world. Observing hersketches, after having seen some of the finished walls, one has the impression that thesesubjects have come alive off the page, as if returning home on the wall spontaneously, oftheir own free will.

For Alice the sketchbook is a personal travelogue, a collection of impressions andemotions, that later will then become realized in a larger dimension on a wall. Her muralwork is highly pictorial, the stroke recognizable – from the lines of the illustration itself, tothe characters immersed in a lively or thoughtful context, yet always defined by anunderlying mechanism that drives the emotion of the moment.

The sketches presented are accompanied by installations that help the spectator tounderstand the intimate and emotional impact of the show. Travel is a bigger metaphor forthe exchange and comparison of people and their human emotions – fundamental elementsof Alice’s artistic research.

For the first time on display, the works on paper of Alice Pasquini, born from thepersonal studies of the artist, will be brought to a public arena.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a Catalog, curated by Marta Gargiulo and VarsiGallery.

Alice Pasquini. Rome 1980.
Illustrator, visual artist, set designer, and painter.
Alice's preferred canvases are the walls of the cities where she travels. Her murals are in:Sydney, Brest, New York,Barcelona, Oslo, Moscow, Paris, Copenhagen, Marrakech, Berlin,Saigon, London, Rome and many other cities across the globe. She often participates inurban art events, international festivals, institutional projects and gallery exhibitions.
Her artwork shows the small moments between people and their connections to oneanother. She wishes to represent human emotion and explore these emotions from adifferent point of view. Alice is particularly interested in the representation of women inart and the desire to show strong, independent women in a way that differs from the highlysexualized image of femininity that is typically seen in society.
Alice graduated from Rome's Academy of Fine Arts and had lived and worked in GreatBritain, France, and Spain. In Madrid she completed coursework in animation at the well-respected Ars animación school and an MA in in critical art studies at the UniversidadComputense.

Alice has worked with international clients such as Nike, Range Rover, Toyota, Microsoft,Gazzetta dello Sport, Martini, El Corte Inglés on marketing campaigns.

Editorial work: design magazine Experimenta, Il Venerdì della Repubblica, and as the artdirector of the satirical magazine Greenager.

In 2011 the graphic novel Vertigine, illustrated by Alice and written by Melissa P, wasreleased by Italian publisher Rizzoli.

Opening: Thursday 28th November from 18.00 to 22.30.Closing: Thursday 23th January 2014

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From Tuesday to Saturday, from 12.00 to 20.00Sunday from 15.00 to 20.30

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