#revolution

If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

H. D. Thoreau

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe— “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

H. D. Thoreau

Artwork by Dom Barra - Power to the people - 2012 - Computer generated picture

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Cure me - 2006 - Computer de-generated picture from hand drawing

All hope abandon, ye who enter in.
Dante Alighieri

Like a candle to the end - 2006 - Computer generated picture

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. #television

Umberto Eco

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other. #ff #followfriday

Hunter S. Thompson

The PSycophantic (Curriculum Linguae) - 2012 - Computer generated picture

Meet our meat - 2012 - Computer generated picture

The idiots love confession - 2011 - Digital sketch on smartphone app

In the name of silent Gods (Excerpt from the poem “The rising of the Idiots”)

We pull many faces
As days go by.
Our poses hide the truth
That we’re living a crazy lie.
Do we mean what we say,
Or do we just speak in vain?
Facts are made of words,
In the name of silent gods.

Custom print available directly from Fotomoto through Behance on | http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Idiots/2252228

The Idiots are also present on The Creators Project on | http://gallery.thecreatorsproject.com/gallery/The-Idiots/2252228

and on Adweek Talent Gallery | http://talent.adweek.com/gallery/The-Idiots/2252228

Dom Barra | http://www.behance.net/dombarra

http://it.linkedin.com/in/dombarra
http://www.twitter.com/dombarra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81HnRHTD…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PgKWQH6P…
http://dombarra.virtualgallery.com

The PSycophantic (Curriculum Linguae) - 2012 - Computer generated picture

Cure me - 2006 - Computer de-generated picture from hand drawing

Like a candle to the end - 2006 - Computer generated picture

The Holy Spirit - 2010 - Spray paint, acrylic paint, glue, textile on board - 40cm X 60cm

Two idiots robbing another idiot - 2012 - Digital sketch on smart phone app

An idiot shouting at the king, the queen and their servant - 2012- Digital sketch on smart phone app

Art Collective URTO! presents: “BEYOND PARALYSIS” (A group exhibition of visual art and perfomances)

Art Curators : Domenico Esposito - Lorenzo Mantile

Coordination : Giuseppina di Pasqua

10 | 24 / 03 / 2012

Vernissage : Saturday 10 / 03 / 2012 - Time : 5pm

PAN (Palazzo delle arti di Napoli)

In collaboration with the “Department of culture and tourism” of the Council of Naples.

Event in favor of the ONG “Occhi Aperti”.

Since one year from the formal occupation of the “Palazzo delle arti di Napoli” by the art collective URTO! (www.urtonapoli.tk), we finally arrive to the date of our first group exhibition.
“Beyond Paralysis” - Neapolitan Artists Collective URTO! - Step|1

PARALYSIS: We opted for this word because among the many possible and immaginable words, “Paralysis” appeared to be the best one in our attempt to interpret aesthetically some of the particular facets of our present experience in terms of socio/political system and our existential condition. The most appropriate word to spur the latent energies peculiar of the comunities we all live in.

THE PROJECT: We gave voice to the paralysis and to the research of its “beyond” through a planning which could express at its best the process of aggregation of our art collective URTO!. Our only aim is the freedom of expression of artistic talents in a public space as a valid contribute for a better society. To do so, we have adressed a direct “OPEN INVITATION” to artists through a public call on various social network. We invited artists to immagine and represent the “PARALYSIS” in all of its aspects: political, poetical, musical, theatrical, philosophical, social, without any expressive tie of techniques and languages.

The word “PARALYSIS”, that refers to the arrest of motor functions, it seems containing linguistically the antidote to the same pathologies that it designates as it derives from the greek word paràlysis which means dissolution, relaxation, dissolution. So if conveniently elaborated, every “Paralysis” contain in itself its own clearing.

The art as “paralysis”. The creative action that paralyzes, traps and freezes what it gathers into a new condition of form. In doing this it is its primary instict in duplicating things, in stopping the time, in leaving a trace of something which otherwise it would inevitably disappear into emptiness.

Art as movement. The paralyzing creative action is a language capable of giving life and substance to the profound individual and collective perception; of revealing and exorcizing every paralysis that human kind lives in his daily experience. The deadening of the capacity of reception, of perception, of relation, of the critical capacity and also of choice, of the will of foreseeing and pursuing an ethical dimension of the existence.

ARTISTS
Angela Barretta, Angelo Santonicola, Anna Maria Saviano, Azzurra Mozzillo, c.ia Danza Flux, Conni Celotto, Domenico Dom Barra, Emmanuele De Ruvo, Enrico Borriello (Pinasv), Fabulouskhate, Gilda Rotello, Giovanni Napolitano, Loris Lombardo, Marco Abbamondi, Marco Iannaccone, Massimiliano Mirabella, Melania Oppenheimer di Leo, Pasquale Di Donato, Peppe Esposito, Raffaele Biondi, re:merda, Salvatore Bellella, Sasi Menale, Semmai Factory.

PERFORMANCES
10/03/2012
“PATHOS”- c.ia Danza Flux- of Chiara Alborino and Fabrizio Varriale.
“FABULA RASA - PROGETTO UNO” directed by Pino Carbone.
“TRAGEDIA PER MANICHINI DA CRASH TEST” Performance of Music and Action Painting stage set by Luigi Morra with i Camera and Marco Matta.
“DUO DI LAPTOP” Andrea Arcella - Dario Sanfilippo.
EXPERIMENTAL DIDACTICS:
“EXTRALAB” of the professor Rino Squillante of the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli”.

17 /03/2012 - 6pm
Meeting with the artist ELVIRA PIROZZI BLOIS
Projection of the video of the performance “SACRO PANE” (Holy bread)

www.urtonapoli.tk ! (Informal network)