Cyop & Kaf
FUOCO!

February 26 > April 9 2010

OPening: venerdì February 26, 7:00-10:00 PM

It is available the exhibit's catalogue, produced by Overfoto for Edizioni M.A.O. – Napoli (2010)
15 €.

Absolute protagonists of urban art in Neaples metropolitan area, with this unusual foray into the circuit of galleries, these two street artists present a work which is original  in its formal choice but coherent in the urgency of expression with their production of ever . The pieces exhibited are realized with raku , a Japanese technique  of hand- working ceramics through which Cyop&Kaf created some dozen copies, but each one unique and unrepeatable."

. ... whatever the sequence, or whatever the vignette, Cyop&Kaf’s tiles tell a story, the story, the one that art always tells, even history of art. You can find a lot of it, not just that at the base of street-art (murals, underground comics and anything else), or the essential avant garde of last century, but even properly the most recent one, which makes our city a place where art continues with a great deal of energy to be made, certainly not to be exposed, and even less to be offered as an easy investment of money that here, let's face it, is never very clean. For Cyop&Kaf, media saboteurs in search of walls, it will be easy to cross the borders of Italy, but they will thankfully take with them all they have become observing the world, observing it on a wall, of course, but observing it here, and even too well knowing how to observe the word from here. "
Gabriele Frasca

"Terribly alone, or nearly so, these now wanted artists (mostly wanted by the police than by collectors ) go on undeterred in their manic care of disseminating signs "abnormal, restless, sometimes disturbing." In a desperate attempt to awake the anesthetized "critical spirit" of much of the Italian people, lured and nursed by birth with milk powder and television programs, Cyop&Kaf’s works infiltrate into the darkest alleys, middle- class districts, into most degraded neighborhoods, in art galleries, into most reactionary minds, presenting themselves like sand into the mechanism of prevailing unilateral way of thinking. Given that listing the personal and collective exhibitions seems to be functional to that kind of artists who pumpin up their resumes tryito pump up even their wallet, we believe it is more appropriate in this case, not to reduce everything to a cold list of some events limited in time. But we want to invite you to the exhibition open 365 days a year, in constant development, free for all, which is stationed in Naples center and its vast suburbs. Open your eyes, but especially your heart. "
Cyop&Kaf