RE-NEW

PostmastersROMA is pleased to announce a group exhibition RE-NEW with Nicola Verlato, Wolfgang Staehle, Signe Pierce, Christian Rex van Minnen, David Humphrey, Alessandro Giannì and Kenny Dunkan. Each work in the show, infused with contemporary technologies and concepts, revisits classical fields of religion, mythology and philosophy. By modernising the Ancient, the past and the present converge and give life to new contemporary forms and perspectives. Following Signe Pierce’s philosophy: It's more about the embracing of myth and magic, and using art history as a compass to help us point in the directions of the future.

Nicola Verlato combining classical painting techniques with CGI and 3D modeling/ gaming software, creates perfectly shaped mythical figures such as Actaeon suspended in a black void.



The pioneer in the realm of technology and art since the 80s, Wolfgang Staehle, presents Forum Romanum (September 13, 2007) from his Matter of Time series. The artist gives us the opportunity to simultaneously experience the current moment in synch with the past.

Signe Pierce describes herself as a ‘Reality Artist’, and considers her lived experiences to serve as both a canvas and a reflection of hyperreality. Directly derived from Pierce’s Neon Renaissance philosophy, her works embrace the ephemeral plasticity of time and life through light, color and movement.

Christian Rex van Minnen’s hyper-surreal Caput Mortuum: Alas, Pu$$y Bold Men Babylon is a portrait of a half-human half-jelly raspberry provoking anxiety and reflection upon the complexity of emptiness of our time, painted with Renaissance techniques of layering and glazing.

David Humphrey through his methodology of approaching daily experience, banalises the heroic and historical symbol of Rome, the mythical Lion Attacking the Horse by rendering the two much more quotidian and un-heroic than the original Hellenistic sculpture.

Alessandro Giannì collects various aesthetic fragments and historical symbols from the web and social networks to twist them into new kaleidoscopic, digitised and abstractified forms, denouncing their piety.



In his once censored video in Rome, Kenny Dunkan wrestles with the concept of sacrality and triviality by licking the image of Pope Francis off of a lollipop.