New York, New York. Back to the 80’s

The exhibition focuses on Italian and foreign artists who lived in New York in the 1980s amid socialite culture, transgression, and excess. It is during this period that artworks emerge from galleries to land in less conventional places, such as subways, where street artists are embraced as true artists, like Keith Haring. 
Among the featured artists: Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Nicola De Maria, Keith Haring, Carlo Maria Mariani, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Toxic, and Andy Warhol.

The New York East Village is their chosen place with its nightclubs, frequented also by singers, where evenings are spent straddling the line between the underground imagination and transgression, including The Dome, the Palladium and Studio 54, which for Basquiat becomes a true home and over time transforms into an art gallery. Once a notorious area, the East Village requalifies itself as a neighborhood of artists, poets, and writers who gather in restaurants, galleries, and streets where improvised talk shows are often organized.

In 1982 the East Village is officially the neighborhood of new creativity. 

With this exhibition, Farsettiarte aims to explore art at the crossover of the 1980s, where being an artist in Italy could mean having lunch in Naples with Warhol, chatting with Basquiat in Modena, and moving effortlessly from a provincial city to cosmopolitan New York to become leading figures in the international art scene.