BEVETE PIÙ LATTE
OPAVIVARÁ! debut show in Rome comes immersed in liquid propositions. We drink the milk from our ancestors' fountains and we mix it in a collage of popular and contemporary concepts and materials that are typical of the collective's practice. The Lupa Capitolina sculpture, taken as the mythological foundation of Rome, is re-signified in various ways in objects that belong to our daily practices and out most intimate habits.
The pieces that occupy both the interior and exterior of the gallery space are an invitation for the audience to sip into the inebriating fluidity of the experience. Everything flows from the skin, the body frontier, to the interior of the guts, like the gush of body liquids that want to reach the other, other bodies, to become other, in a sensorial fusion. We aim to circulate inside and outside ourselves, through the city arteries and veins, sharing our desires while opening new possibilities of being together. The show is to see, to touch, to drink and to come. Just as you are.
For their debut show with Magazzino, OPAVIVARÁ! Has decided to create a liquid proposal, inspired in the title tothe famous episode from the film Boccaccio ’70 directed by Federico Fellini, Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio inwhich Antonio Mazzuolo (Peppino de Filippo), a man who is rigid in his conservative conventions and censoriousand is profoundly disturbed by the female body, develops a noxious relationship with a monumental advertisementbillboard of Anita Ekberg. Milk, becomes of OPAVIVARÁ!, a rhetorical figure mixed in a collage in which popularand contemporary culture find space, together with industrial and recycling materials, characteristic of the practice ofthe Brazilian collective.The figure of the Lupa Capitolina is reformulated in various versions, through objects that belong to our most dailyand intimate practices. The works, disposed both inside and outside the gallery space, invite the public to drawphysically, to an experience and their inebriating fluids. As the artists write, “Everything flows from the skin, the bodyfrontier, to the interior of the guts, like the gush of body liquids that want to reach the other, other bodies, to becomeother, in a sensorial fusion. “The objective of the artists is that of stimulating this circulation, that is both personal and social, with the “aim tocirculate inside and outside ourselves, through the city arteries and veins, sharing our desires while opening newpossibilities of being together. It’s a show to see, to touch, to drink and to come. Just as you are.
”The exhibition will be accompanied by a critical text written by Bernardo de Souza, art critic and curator, director ofthe Fundação Iberê Camargo di Porto Alegre.
