Convivencia”, Hyuro Solo Exhibition in Rome

Dorothy Circus Gallery is pleased to present “Convivencia”, the first Italian solo show by the inter-nationally renowned Argentinean street artist Hyuro. On the occasion of this collaboration with DCG, Hyuro will also give birth to a new outdoor mural painting for the city of Rome: the fifth Step of the project Spray for Your Rights, pursued by the Gallery for the last two years.  With this Step #5 and her solo exhibition, Hyuro will interpret the theme of reception of coexis-tence. Through a series of drawings and watercolors, the artist opens a discussion that spots a light on the process of accepting oneself and the others; a discourse that describes both the individual and the collective relationships. In her works, therefore, the characters deal with their own spaces as well as with the shared ones, by visually developing a language that aims at discussing social and psychological themes, which are deeply relevant today.

The works created by the Argentinean artist are remarkable for their delicate fusion of socio-political messages and a unique surrealist sensibility. In her dreamlike compositions, a cast of mys-terious characters plays a performance that whispers a message, but that, at the same time, always sponsors the viewer’s freedom of interpretation. Hyuro’s imagery is strongly rooted in a personal reflection on people – especially women – in our contemporary society. By scrutinizing these kinds of issues, the artist leads her work further, in order to uproot all the prejudices and stereotypes that are usually associated with males and females in today’s society. This precise, poisonous, and subtle analysis, together with a constantly evolving painting technique, which has turned into an extreme synthesis of delicate grey-like colors. The same tones tend to un-derline feelings and issues seemingly negative, which can however be turned upside down to go searching for that empathy and human sentiment we too often forget. It is always interesting to no-tice how Hyuro toils through visual associations, cryptic artworks and frame by frame, where the actions, symbolic objects of this intellectual slavery, become an active part of the reasoning and the ideas dealt with and deepened by the artist.

Hyuro started her career by painting on canvas and she still produces paintings and drawings. Dur-ing the last years, however, she focused on outdoor productions, which led her to become one of the most interesting and innovative street artists in Europe. Already in 2014, Hyuro realized an impor-tant artistic intervention in Moscow, where she stood out as the only female artist of the first Inter-national Street Art Biannual of Russia.  The following year, she took part in Madrid Street Art Pro-ject for Madrid’s metro station and proposed a biting meditation of the female figure and her ordi-nary life, delineating a path of in-depth social and anthropologic analysis.

[photo: Hyuro, Relaciones urbanas (Urban relationships), watercolor on paper, 100x70cm]