INVADEROMA is the catalog for the first Italian solo show of Invader: "Roma 2010 and other curiosities". Invader is an artist working in anonymity. Born in 1969 in Paris, he is one of the most important and original international street artists and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums across the world. Invader is known above all for his public interventions inspired to the Arcade Game Space Invaders, created in 1978 in Japan. His operations are tied up to creative practices of "interference" through which he traces unique trails in the collective space, shaping new signs in the urban landscape. The naturally public formality of his interventions - suspended between visibility and anonymity and between real and virtual spaces - as well as the choice of icons present in the collective memory and practices of the youngest generations, offers a meaningful and original reading of our cultural patrimony. The book presents various aspect of his work: from the alias replicating the space invaders of Roma to works made with his original RubikCubism technique, by means of the colored modules of the famous puzzle, re-presenting images extrapolated from the realm of art history or popular culture, along with specific installations and curiosities. The invasion guide of Roma and the brand new 19th printed invasion map will also be presented in exclusivity at the opening. On the occasion of the artist's presence in the city, Wunderkammern's exhibition space opens once again to the dialectic comparison between ordinary and extraordinary, by drawing its own poetry closer to Invader's narrative language. The artist revisits the urban space generating wonder and transforming daily routes into unique journeys.

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Arts & Photography

INVADER

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

DRAGO

There are teenage smokers and drinkers. There are those whose despondence is clearly evident as they confront the camera with vacant eyes. This, quite simply put, is The Golden Age of Neglect - a classic example of Ed Templeton's work which is deeply anchored in street life and street style, music (rock, punk, and rap), and graphic culture (wall paintings, murals, tags, and graffiti). This is the vision of an artist who crosses the realms of art, sports, sex, drugs, violence, fashion, and youth. A fixture of the Los Angeles skateboarding scene, Ed Templeton has been producing photographs, documenting a real story of his life, international tours, and encounters in the skateboarding world for over 10 years. Fuelled by incredible raw energy, irreverence, and spontaneity, his work is comprised of an extraordinary number of photographs and canvases, as well as a body of graphic work from drawings, sketch books and collages to montages and correspondence. This book is the reprint of the original version, which quickly rose to cult status shortly after its first printing in 2003.

The Golden Age of Neglect

History & Criticism

Giancarlo Neri was born in Naples, Italy in 1955. He moved to New York in 1978 to play professional football. Neri studied painting and sculpture at the Arts Students League, and became a full-time artist in 1980. He had his first solo gallery show at the Kornblee Gallery in 1983, and has been working on large-scale site-specific installations in the United States, Europe, and Brazil since 1982. Neri returned to Naples in 1997, where he worked on a series of sculptures and installations in a dismantling steel plant. He currently lives and works in Rome. With approximately 150 color images, this publication is the definitive guide to the works of this artist, who is celebrated in Italy, but underexposed in the United States.

Giancarlo Neri: Installations (Bilingual Italian/English Edition)

Last, First

Literature & Fiction

The renowned graffiti artist, illustrator and tattooist, Mike Giant,has been bringing his signature style to concrete, paper and skin for years. Now, he collates his masterpieces in an enticing volume. Muerte is a vibrant celebration of the master of black ink and a jewel in the crown of the Drago’s36 Chambers series.Drawing inspiration from Mexican folk art and Japanese illustration, his unique images depict everything from voluptuous femme fatales to skulls and animal tentacles. “Mike Giant has the rare ability to create technical and precise drawings, but also show depth and soul in everything he does” –Matt Revelli, editor of Juxtapoz Magazine. “Flawless lines and the use of low key icons are only one aspect of Mike Giant’s work. Check out what lies beneath. Though everything seems controlled, under the surface there is an incredible amount of references one can find. His references are not only about folk art or religious or philosophical, there is much more. It is a lacquered, trapped in time, reflection of the world complexity where love and hate mix, where everything is dual, so simple and yet so hard to live. In this sense, being a great and original artist, Mike Giant has this capacity to go beyond and bring us back the unseen, the unspoken.”-Magda Danysz, renowned gallerist of contemporary art.

Muerte

Giant, Mike

Individual Artists

Hello Kitty meets Cat Woman. Samurai Girl is the Japanese Lolita for the new millennium. Following the success of Bambola Kokeshi, Furi Furi, Yoshimoto Nara, Mariko Mori, and Fruits, Samurai Girl is the fresh face of the Japanese underground. Samurai Girl is a psychedelic and playful collection of images by Tokyo-based fashion photographer and ex -Japanese Pop Idol, Julie re-mixes Japanese (sub)cultural photos with manga and video game graphics like an escapist DJ. Collaborating with some of the most influential style leaders of the Otaku Scene, Julie's photos and designs have gained cult status in Tokyo. The Samurai girls in Julie's photography capture the contemporary aesthetic for real-life Barbie dolls, cosmic superstars, video game superheroes, super sexy pop idols, and Godzilla school girls. Samurai Girl combines Japanese youth fashion fantasy with radical trends, club culture chic and manga design. Over 100 photos and graphics re-interpret the Kawaii (cute) wave.

Samurai Girl

Watai, Julie

##Amplified Youth is a book about being young and crazy for rock'n'roll and the ritual of a concert, capturing the spirit of the celebration of sound, sweat and raw energy through a collection of rigorous black and white photographs. #Angelo Sindaco, a contributing photographer to Vice magazine, has been taking backstage pictures and live video footage at clubs since the 1990s. His photographs can also bee seen in Skinstreet, the Skinhead way of LIfe and Check This Out! Photographic Book on Basketball as Never Seen Before both published by Drago.

Amplified Youth

Sindaco, Angelo

Drago invited Jeremy Fish to come to Rome and create site specific works. The results are in the book Rome-antic Delusions. The title is a play on words and the contents contain a roman remix of Jeremy's images. The Italian touch has been added to his usual cast of characters, his rich iconography has had a glass of prosecco and a plate of pasta and the artists has got a bit of the Rome-antic touch.

Rome-antic Delusions

The editors of Izastikup are prolific sticker creators and graffiti painters who have been swapping stickers with artists and collectors from all over the world for the last 10 years. Stickers are wallpapered on every inch of their Milan studio. Sticker making and pasting on any space available has developed into a manic subculture that is becoming an integral part of today's graffiti culture. Sticker art represents the street as a public space for free expression. As influential British graffiti artist Banksy puts it, "A wall is just a good a place to publish something as anywhere else." The stickers of New York graffiti artists, Cost and Revs reached a new generation with cryptic messages such as "Real artists don't know they're artists" and "Cost fucker Madonna". Skateboarders and surfers have been creating their own art movement with sticker designs and graffiti. Shepard Fairey internationally popularized stickers and graffiti techniques through his global Obey the Giant campaign. This book depicts the art movement that started in the streets, now recognized in galleries and museums as art. Featuring the world's best street style artists including: Buff monster, Futura 2000, Obey - The Giant, Shepard Fairey, Jeremy Fish, Honet, Miss Van, Space Invader, Banksy, and The London Police.

Izastikup

Microbo

Travel

After the success of Amplified Youth, an amazing report on the indie scene and the new rock 'n roll fever, Angelo Sindaco continues to dig into the faults of modernity. Pressurized energy, about to explode: he is a spy of the conflict that started at the borders and has spread to the centre. Skinstreet is the last book by the photographer, with images shot around Europe and the United States. Sindaco is mapping the mutant geography of the street scene, he is an authentic cultural Jedi like Drago. The challenge, this time, is in the controversial, usually demonized, world of the shaved heads. A former skinhead himself, Angelo Sindaco revisits his past with his camera, immortalizing one of the most "esoteric" tribes on the globe. According to the author it is "a world apart" and "hard to approach". Equally radical, is the code required to adapt and blend in. Starting with the intrinsic rite of shaving to boots, leather jackets and heavy tattoos. This is the look, the complete dress-code of the urban warrior. It has been like this since the 60s, true to its white working class roots. Criticised by the orthodox, the skinheads damned charm has an irresistible appeal to the gay community. So, from the outside, the phenomenon ends under the lights of the paparazzi: on the catwalks and the fashion magazines. However, the "gonzos" of the counter-culture don't surrender to the temptations of show business. Instead, they continue to protectively foster their identity, avoiding all sorts of contaminations. Hard and pure until the end. Through the eye of Angelo Sindaco, it is possible to discover them in their extreme and unsettling habitat. An alien dimension inhabited by secular "Krishna's", devoted to resistance. The volume includes a collection of essays by David Gross (N.Y. Times, Newsday, Farrar Straus Giroux) and Federico Chiara (Vogue Italia).

Skinstreet: The Skinhead Way of Life

One of the biggest culture factories that promotes the latino-style in the world is SA Studio and the heart of it is Esteval Oriol. Here comes the first photography book of the most famous latino-photographer that is the eye of the new wave of latino aesthetic that represents the fastest growing minority of the United States of America as trend maker and block buster. Oriol invoked his unique photography style to catalogue the outrageous experiences he had on tour with Soul Assassins and with Cypress Hill and began taking pictures of his neighbourhood homies and the low rider culture. He has a gift for capturing the raw essence of street life through his photography. Within a short time, he became one of the most sought after photographers of the Urban and Hip Hop community. This book is dedicated to cutting edge women of Los Angeles- the silent ambassadress of a new style that is not more centred on WASP Culture.

ESTEVAN ORIOL: L.A. WOMEN

Estevan Oriol

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