For two weeks, during opening hours, Italian artist Ozmo kept drawing on the walls of the museum’s temporary exhibition gallery (45 meters long, 4.5 meters wide, and 7 meters high) using only Uniposka black markers. People passing by the nearby Piazza del Duomo could peek and see him drawing from the museum windows. Trained at the Fine Art School of Florence, Ozmo incorporates references to both art history and pop culture in his murals. At the Museo del Novecento, Ozmo also included in his drawings several masterpieces of the museum’s collection as well as the disaster of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia that had occurred less than a month before.
Close-up of the Artist: Ozmo
Il PreGiudizio Universale
February 2 – 26, 2012
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Ozmo in front of his painting PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
In the background, Ozmo’s oversize version of Caravaggio’s Medusa (ca. 1597) and, on the left, Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting, The Blind Leading the Blind (1568).
Ozmo
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Installation view
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Ozmo drawing Umberto Boccioni’s iconic sculpture
Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) (1913), on view in the Museum’s Collection.
Ozmo
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Installation view
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Passerby peaking at Ozomo working on his installation PreGiudizio Universale (2012) Museo del Novecento, Milan
Ozmo drawing on the museum wall (February 2012)
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Ozmo
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Installation view
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Ozmo, who rejects to be described as a graffiti artist, divides his works in outdoor and indoor works such as this one — Sponsors (Saint Sebastien), 2008, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm — that was included in the exhibition.
Ozmo
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Installation view
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Visitors were invited to take a sticker with one of Ozmo’s signature stencil drawings (the black outline of a man with a skull face), customize it and stick on a wall, becoming part of the exhibition itself.
Ozmo
PreGiudizio Universale, 2012
Installation view
Museo del Novecento, Milan
