Art characterizes us as a species. It is in the essence of our nature.
Before writing, we already knew how to represent the animals around us pictorially, with anatomical precision. Our symbolic ability has made us the humans we are today.
It is undoubtedly strange that sometimes Art is not given the importance it deserves. The need of expressing ourselves through painting, engraving, or sculpture is an intrinsic part of our evolution.
It has been observed that in some prehistoric caves, different tribes have intervened in the same space over various periods, even altering the meaning of previous representations. It is not difficult to link these interventions with contemporary Urban Art. The artists express themselves but do not become the owners of the spot. Once the artwork is finished, it remains in a space exposed to the creative freedom of the next person.
In the collective exhibition INNER STREET, we wanted to recreate, through the artists’ interventions on the walls of the gallery, the impermanent spirit of Urban Art. The works represented on the walls will cease to exist when the exhibition ends. Not to be replaced by better art, but by different art. Time passes inside the gallery just as it does on the street—never stopping.
