Galleria Overfoto hosts in its spaces, starting from next May 15, the solo Arash Radpour’s exhibition curated by Maya Pacifico. Iranian by birth and  Roman of adoption, the artist plays with the ambiguous theme of splitting, dropping his subjects in environments not immediately recognizable and multiplying their presence within the same image. The result is a series of shots where the background becomes a paradoxical and participant microcosm and its people act and move within it iterated - potentially to infinity-but always unique. The final effect is alienating, sometimes surreal, but never for this rejecting. Even the title of the exhibition, Napoletani a Roma almost deliberately chosen by the artist to provoke a disorientation in the audience, points its attention on an apparently side and less visible aspect, that is sto say the Parthenopean origin of almost all subjects, who are young actors - like Michelangelo Dalisi - or artists - see Giancarlo Savino – and in general creatives who in Rome posed for Arash, bringing on set their multiples in a sort of ironic sample of contemporary man.

Biography

Arash Radpour was born in Tehran in 1976. He lives in Italy since 1980. After graduating at Rossellini in Rome, he begins to work as an assistant for fashion photographers such as Paolo Roversi, Norbert Schoerner, Carter Smith. In 2003 he moves to New York, and in one year he comes into contact with several international art scene young representatives. Back in Rome in 2004 he is introduced to the art world thanks to a series of night landscapes taken during his New York stay. Since then he realized four solo and several collective exhibitions in museums and galleries in Italy and abroad. He participated to On the Edge Of Vision at the Victoria Memorial Hall of Calcutta, exhibition organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. He also participated, out competition, at the 52 edition of Venice Biennale with the exhibition Faccia lei, organized by Arterra Museum in Vienna at Thetis / Arsenal space. One of his works, realized in collaboration with Matteo Basilé, is present in permanent collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Personal exhibits
2008
Snobcream, Goa Club, Roma (Italy)
The Zone, Atelier35, Roma (Italy)
2006
Carnival (A Black Comedy), Sergio Tossi Gallery, Firenze (Italy)
2005
The Sweet Hereafter, Altri Lavori in Corso, Roma (Italy)