MANIFESTO

#64

MUSE TWENTY FANZINE

A CALL FOR CHANGE

2021.10.19

PARLEY FOR THE OCEANS
TULUM, MEXICO

A series of individually painted surfboards to support Parley’s Global Clean Up Network with a special focus on Tulum, Mexico.

“When I am swimming in the Ocean, I actually sometimes believe that I am a dolphin. I can hear them under the water, very high pitched, and I put my head up and they are jumping all around me. I feel very connected to Dolphins.”

-Kenny Scharf

Renowned artist Kenny Scarf affiliated with the 1980’s East Village Art movement in New York, developed a distinct and uniquely personal artistic style in paintings as well as sculpture, alongside his mentor Andy Warhol, and contemporaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring with whom he pioneered contemporary street art. Through ecstatic compositions and a dazzling color palette, Scharf Pop Surrealism presents an immersive viewing experience that is both intimate and fresh. Kenny Scharf has been collecting plastic waste from the shorelines since the 80s, often using them to form playful art installations. His understanding of plastic’s never-degrading nature and its ecological cost is reflected in this practice which made his teaming up with Parley for the Oceans a natural and much needed collaboration. The artist produced 12 individually painted surfboards with proceeds going to Parley’s Global Clean Up Network with a special focus on Tulum, Mexico: a hotspot for biodiversity where the interception of marine plastic pollution is crucial to the survival of endangered species. These surfboards unite the worlds of art and surfing as a messenger for the cause. Each is a surfable symbol and a call for eco-innovation, creativity and collaboration to protect our oceans. The surf community is equally vital to the Parley mission as the artists, as they know the oceans like no others. This project is a synthesis of a surfer’s love for the ocean and an artist’s imaginative call for change.

“Parley was born in the art community and wouldn’t exist without the enormous support of artists, curators, collectors, galleries and museums. Kenny Scharf’s contribution to Parley is a wonderful example of how an artist can use his work to create impact, his voice to encourage thousands of us to move forward and to believe that we can invent our way out of this global plastic crisis with creativity, ingenuity and passion.”- Cyrill Gutsch, Founder and CEO, Parley for the Oceans

PHOTOGRAPHY

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Returned to the city as an important space for cultural dissemination, the exhibition floor unveils to the public for the first time the first part of the program that interweaves – with an international gaze – visual arts, fashion, design and the publishing scene. An unprecedented experience of discovery and fruition takes visitors through the environments in an ascending climax.

Miranda July: New Society

2024.02.21

Osservatorio Prada presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Miranda July that traces the 30-year career of the American artist, filmmaker and writer through her short films, performances and installations.

FONDAZIONE PRADA

PARAVENTI

2023.10.25

FOLDING SCREENS FROM THE 17TH TO 21ST CENTURIES

 

The extensive exhibition set up in the spaces of Fondazione Prada, and curated by Nicholas Cullinan, investigates the history and interprets the meanings of folding screens.

EXHIBITION

SARAH LUCAS

2023.09.24

London’s Tate Britain presents HAPPY GAS, Sarah Lucas’ solo exhibition exploring the British artist’s forty years of work.

CINEMA

ASTEROID CITY BY WES ANDERSON

2023.09.22

Anderson’s new film is about a desert town where a group of young geniuses gather for an invention contest. It is a dreamlike place, à la Anderson, where the universe, the meaning of life and the meaning of death are contemplated. Like any place of the director, it is unexplored and unknown…