The Cologne-based artist, exhibiting at Emi Fontana, builds a forest of pop giant mushrooms out of textiles and clothes. A big lady's handbag is casually dropped on the floor and a wooden cabin hides big sheets of fabrics, as if an Alice in Wonderland were reflecting on the labor of women. A different kind of obsession is entertained by Alessandro Pessoli. His maniacal sketches and drawings covered the walls of Studio Guenzani along with a series of rough-looking sculptures. Pessoli also presented very personal works, like Drawings from the Green World and The Pissed Drawing .
Obsession continues to be attractive to young artists.
Whereas young Italians love to waste their efforts, Young Brit Jason Martin is a hard worker, as his solo at Gian Ferrari proved. His large canvases are filled with monochromatic paint, stretched and modeled with powerful strokes of a toothed trowel. Bas Meerman could be called a macho artist. Showing at Cannaviello, this young Dutch painter favors Pop colors for his pictures of naked muscled boys with pouting lips. Titles vary, ranging from Querelle and Dirty Slave to Prince and Princess.