An impertinent Queen Elizabeth in the ancient headquarters of the first Tognana industry (today a ceramics warehouse behind the Famila Superstore). Luciano Benetton was also present
TREVISO. A head of impertinent Queen Elizabeth, cloaked in a Vuitton-like fabric (clearly tarot), which makes a tongue at the viewer, combines pop art, street art and urban regeneration, in the work “Treviso Lizzy Vuitton” by the London artist Endless, inaugurated on Thursday 29 July, in Treviso in via Sant’Antonino 352, in the ancient headquarters of the first Tognana industry (today a ceramics warehouse behind the Famila Superstore).
Patron of the initiative is in fact Antonio Tognana, who involved Endless in the decoration of a new porcelain collection of his brand “Gemignano Cozzi – Venezia 1765”, on display in the building opposite the mural, former Tognana company canteen, open to the public for the visit and for the purchase.
Endless is represented by the Venetian gallery owner Cris Contini, who manages one of the most prestigious contemporary art galleries in London, and to date is the first street artist to be part of the permanent collections of the Uffizi in Florence. Provocative and radical, the artist dismantles the iconographic myths of modern culture, fashion, advertising, working with the favor of the night to make his works suddenly appear to the world, called into question with his myths, mocked by an aesthetic playful and seductive.
He recently collaborated with major fashion brands, such as Karl Lagerfeld. At the inauguration of the Treviso opera house, in addition to the mayor Mario Conte and the councilor for culture Lavinia Colonna Preti, in an institutional capacity, Luciano Benetton was also present, in a private capacity, invited by his friend Antonio Tognana, to pay homage with his presence the initiative that contributes to the development of contemporary art in Treviso.