Perino & Vele's Eroticized Objects at Galleria Alfonso Artiaco

The Italian duo Perino & Vele present 'HappyBrico' at Galleria Alfonso Artiaco in Naples, a solo exhibition that obscures objects with papier-mâché and fiberglass, creating a veiled, eroticized aesthetic. The show critiques consumer fetishism through distorted sculptures resembling Trojan horses and vases of Greek elpis (hope), covered in cheap trinkets. The exhibition unfolds across multiple rooms: conceptual symbols of danger and hope in the first, consumerist suffocation in the second, and a dark room with sex toys paired with an orgasmic wall drawing in tangerine. Philosophical still lifes on papier-mâché echo metaphysical paintings by Carlo Carrà and 17th-century vanitas, oscillating between carpe diem and memento mori. The work references Op art, pixelated aesthetics (noted by Sergio Risaliti), and digital poetics while maintaining tactile materiality. The exhibition runs at Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, in 2019.