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TVBoy Palermo 1980 Pop Artist

Tvboy Love in Milan 2006

TVBoy, is the pseudonym of the young artist Salvatore Benintende. Born 1980 in Palermo, Italy, TvBoy is a contemporary Pop artist. He currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. He grew up in Milan, where he broke into the art world via graffiti since 1996. After studing painting and illustration at the University of Bilbao (Spain), he returned to Milan and graduated in Industrial design, specializing in graphic art. He began collaborating with various European studios and brands as freelancer; has put together shows in several galleries and been involved in street events in Italy and Spain. He currently lives in Barcelona where he runs his own studio. His visual style is inherit from Pop art and comic strips, with breezily expressive graphics and his own imaginative reworking of past icons. The baby with the face inside the Tv set, his alter-ego and hallmark, carries the message: "Switch it off,you're the one on stage!"

[] Tvboy Destroy 2007

ARTWORK by Jacopo Perfetti TvBoy is the son of post-modernism and of the cross-media mash-up. His works are a Bakhtinian carnivalization of the contemporary world, where styles, citations and influences pour onto his canvases like fragments of street pop with a neo-punk aftertaste. Starting with the streets as his own channel of expression, Salvatore Benintende, alias TvBoy, has made his art an ongoing experimentation with the idioms of communication, with mass media serving at the same time as the inspiration and the negation of his research. “Switch off the tv, you’re the one on stage”. With this message, simple and universally understandable, the artist has given life to his creative alter ego, a child observing with genuine sensitivity a present broken into an impure flux of mixed-up styles. All of these elements can be found in the works of Salvatore, whether they are on the street or in the studio. Looking at his canvases is like looking at Peter Greenaway’s “A Zed and Two Noughts” or Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” through the fragmented filter of cyber-navigation. His art is a meta-narration of the contemporary, composed of reminders from a past revived in a game for two, where the spectator is invited to take part in the dialogue of Art. TvBoy has reinterpreted all his heroes, from Roy Lichtenstein to Milton Glaser, from Salvador Dalì to Andy Warhol, in a constant customization of his own history. In his canvases, the spirit of rock – the grunge of Guns and Roses and Nirvana – moves through the fetishes of pop iconography in an ironical assemblage in the style of Adrian Tranquilli. As the postmodern artist mixes anthropological symbols and religious archetypes into comic book superheroes and iconography, TvBoy uses the same irony in reflecting on figures characterizing his era, alluding to an uncertainty typical of this century, where “everything is possible and nothing is true”. The essence of his art lies precisely in the sensibility with which he observes the reality surrounding him. This genuine and almost adolescent sensibility, leads him to be astonished by the Other who becomes, in his canvases, the dialectical instrument of his art. To the irony of postmodernism and to the capacity of mixing styles and instruments typical of the media mash up, the artist adds all the expressive energy of street art, a movement he adopted at the very beginning. On the street, Salvatore wears the clothes of TvBoy, a personality lost midway between the tenderness of the child and the explosiveness of the illustrarocker, who leaves his mark traveling from the streets of Milan, where it is easy to see his works, often flanked by those of other street artists, to the periphery of Barcelona, which the artist has chosen as his creative atelier. Thus his art becomes public art, which everyone can enjoy, and it surprises and provokes, narrates and astonishes. Thanks to his uniqueness, he manages to stand up against the anti-graffito terrorism dominating Milan in this period, when, without making any distinctions, the wall surfaces of the city were being restored to the same colour gray as the city atmosphere. The best way to get acquainted with the art of TvBoy is to walk through the streets of the cities which have welcomed him, cities to which the artist has donated corners of color, from the graffito made with the street poet Ivan in Via Cassala, in Milan, to the landslide of stickers TvBoy has used to customize cities all over Europe. Salvatore generates his art both in galleries and on the street, imagining dream worlds and engendering visions as he slides, with exquisite balance, between art and design, illustration and communication, inviting all to take part in his revolution without weapons. Come out and play!

ART EXHIBITIONS: 2008- CITY SLANG - Dorothy Circus Gallery Roma (Collettiva) 2008- POP ROCK - Galleria Spazioinmostra Milano (Personale) 2007- DRA WINGS - Limited Gallery Milano (P) 2007- LA NUOVA FIGURAZIONE ITALIANA - Fabbrica Borroni (C) 2007- ART VERONA - Stand Byblos Art Gallery Verona (C) 2007- PLEASE DON'T DIE - Iguapop Gallery Barcelona (P) 2007-THE SUMMER POP UP SHOW - Byblos Art Gallery Verona (C) 2007- ILLA D'ART - L'Illa Diagonal Barcelona (C) 2007- TAG Galleria Spazio in Mostra - Milano (C) 2007- STREET ART SWEET ART - PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea Milano (C) 2007- SNOWBOARD ART - I.E.D. Barcelona 2007 (C) 2007- HENKEL Auditorio Macba 2007 (P) 2007- 24X24 DESIGN NON STOP - IDEP Barcelona (C) 2006- BAC! 06 - C.C.C.B. Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona (C) 2006- FORUM DE L'INNOVACIO' - Palacios de Congresos de Lleida-Reus-Girona-Barcelona (P) 2006- ROJO®SMART - KBB Gallery - Barcelona / Invaliden1 Gallery - Berlin (C) 2006- PREMIO ITALIAN FACTORY PER LA PITTURA ITALIANA - Casa del Pane - Milano 2006- SEGUNDOASALTO - Centro de Historia - Zaragoza (C) 2006- MONZTAAAH! - Centro de Historia - Zaragoza (C) 2006- URBANFUNKE - Jardin de les tres Ximines - Barcelona (P) 2006- SOTTOTERRA - StudioGiga - Roma (C) 2006- LA DOLCE VITA - distritoQuinto - Barcelona (P) 2006- SUSHI FOR BEGINNERS - Abitart Hotel - Rome (C) 2006- URBANDESIGN - viveHOME! - Milano (C) 2006- STREET LOVE - Travelling gallery - Milano (P) 2006- NOBATEGA! - Farm 4 - Barcelona (P) 2006- ART IN MOTION - distritoQuinto - Barcelona (C) 2006- NO STREET - Niu Barcelona (P) 2006- DIGITAL HELMETS (GRAPHOLA & VEMAR) - Nuova Fiera Campionaria - Milano (C) 2005- HYPEGALLERY (HP event) - Assab 1 - Milan (C) 2005- MIRACOLO A MILANO- Palazzo della Ragione - Milano (C) 2005- URBAN EDGE SHOW (Performance) - The P4 - Milano (C) 2005- POSTER XPLOSION Leonkavallo - Milano (C) 2006- I GIOCHI Ansaldo - Milano (C) 2005- ANIMAURBANA Hoepli - Milano (P) 2005- FINDERS KEEPERS Street Show - Milano (C) 2004- BOLLOCKS Adamson Gallery Washington U.S.A (C)

SELECTED ARTICLES / PRESS RELEASES: 2007 LA STAMPA 12 March "Ricco coi Graffiti. Dalle multe prese per Strada ai super-contratti per la pubblicità" Fabio Poletti (ITA) 2007 VOGUE UOMO N.381 "Street Heroes on the Wall" Fabia di Drusco (ITA) 2007 MILLIONAIRE "Vita da Graffitaro"  Sabrina Riccardi (ITA) 2007 PANORAMA "Italian Graffiti Gli artisti europei invadono New York" (ITA) 2007 D DI REPUBBLICA Marzo 2007 “Il Graffitaro Art Director” Gianluca Cantaro (ITA) 2007 CORRIERE DELLA SERA “Dalla Street al Pac” (ITA) 2007 CORRIERE DELLA SERA 2007 “Graffiti e Tag per undici giovani autori” C.Nicolini (ITA) 2006 KULT “La Strada Maestra” di Maria Grazia Torri (ITA) 2006 UNGHIE&BELLEZZA “Tvboy Graffiti sulle unghie” Maya Merlino (ITA) 2005 GROOVE MAGAZINE  "Tvboy Miracolo a Milano” di Sara de Deo (ITA) 2005 MUCCHIO SELVAGGIO  “Street Art” Intervista con Tvboy - Francesca Zito (ITA) 2004 LINEA GRAFICA N.353 “Stickers” Paolo Casati (ITA) 2006 STAF MAGAZINE N. 26 “Tvboy el nino de la tele” Curro Onate (ESP) 2006 WAD MAGAZINE N.29 “ Southern Europe Playground” (FRA) 2007 NOVUM WORLD OF GRAPHIC DESIGN  “Tvboy. Up of the couch!” Susanne Shaller (DE) 2006 MONOCLAB “Tvboy. La tele nos ha dado algo bueno”  (ESP) 2006 CALLE20  “Tvboy contra el monstruo del apalanque” Marta D.Riezu (ESP) 2006 HOT “Dalla Strada alla Galleria” (ITA) 2006 HOT “Monstaaah!” (ITA) 2005 DROME MAGAZINE N.5 “Game” (ITA) 2006 FLUID N.63 “Tvboy Ulicznik” by Emil C.Marino (POL) 2004 HAPPY - USA CALLE 20 - ESP

Books: THEARTOFREBELLION II Publikat CULTURA VISUAL DELICATESSEN N.1 La Santa Ediciones por Gigi R. Harringon PICTOPLASMA Character Encyclopedia Pictoplasma Publishing Peter Thaler ...

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