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FEATURING ARTIST
I Wish You'd Touch Me As Much As You Touch Your Phone by daft-apeth
November - 16 - 30, 2018
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With a professional background in the psychedelic rock scene and after a few years developing a strong visual portfolio, daft-apeth brings together ​childhood iconography, memories, unarranged thoughts and an absurd sense of humor into a motley of vivid enamels, canvasses, sculptures, light boxes, prints and merchandise.
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'This is daft-apeth’s head spilled out into an art gallery.'
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Featuring original work by daft-apeth
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daft-apeth's is a project by musician and artist Sergio Pizzorno.
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Born on 15 December 1980, Sergio Pizzorno is a British songwriter, producer, guitarist, vocalist, designer and visual artist best known for his work with psychedelic rock band Kasabian.
A Leicesterian with Italian roots growing up in the 80s, Pizzorno’s practice delivers a quirky rendition of a nostalgia for this era’s classical British iconography, and draws from a visually detailed memory and a sharp observational skill.
The artist uses an expansive collection of media to present fragments of random overheard quotes, comic characters and arcade machine and television references, all punctuated by a cunning and playful sense of humour.
Pizzorno acquaints the audience with his work by cleverly using quintessentially East Midlander colloquialisms and an abiding wink to a shared epoch of social and political solidity, turning his practice into a somewhat autobiographical narrative of an unequivocally British childhood influenced by after-school cartoons, visits to working men’s clubs and 80s Ceefax pages.
I Wish You’d Touch Me as Much as You Touch Your Phone is daft-apeth’s second solo show.
