onze - video by alessandro palazzi

The video, released for the 2007 exhibition 'Nouvelle Graphique Romana', will be proposed in a new version inside the Humanized Video Room at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Direction and Videomaking: Alessandro Palazzi

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Opening: july 17 from 6 pm
Italian Institute of Culture
Exhibition Hall
Kudan Minami 2-1-30
Chiyoda-ku Tokyo
tel. 03 3264 6011

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オンゼ

（ステファノ・チェントンツェ）

ローマ市在住。1967年同市生まれ、国立芸術学院ローマ校絵画科卒業、'88年イラストレーション発表開始。'89年以降日刊紙マニフェストに定期的に寄稿。ドルチェ・ヴィータ、ヴァニティ、ロックスター、ガンベロ・ロッソ、ブルー、ネッスーノ・トッキ・カイノ、インテルナツィオナーレ、リネア・ディ・オンブラ、アリアス、ムジカ!！！、ブラーヴァ・カーサ，ウルバン、コッリエーレ・デッラ・セーラ、ラ・レプッブリカ、リベラツィオーネなど多数の新聞雑誌にイラスト掲載。'98年、季刊誌ロ・ストラニエロ（編集長ゴッフレード・フォフィ）主催のロ・ストラニエロ賞受賞。

'99年より月刊誌フオリ・ルオゴ、2001年より週刊誌ドンナ・モデルナのイラストレーター。

パルマ、ジェノヴァ、ローマ（2007年ローマ市文化評議会主催、ヌーヴェル・グラフィック・ロマーナ展）で展示。

広告キャンペーン用イラスト；エスターテ・ローマ'98、ルノー・クリオ（サーチ＆サーチ）、トスカーノ不動産（ヤング＆ルビカン）、ノイ・ドンネ（アンブロージオ＆マオローニ）。モンダドーリとフェルトリネッリから出版された本の表紙デザイン。ラテルツァのコントロマーノ・シリーズの表紙イラスト。
オンゼのイラストは複数のテクニックの複合で創作されている。鉛筆からアクリル彩、コラージュから写真、絵筆からコンピュータにまで及ぶ。たとえデジタルで仕上げるときでも、その仕事は常に、紙に手書きのデザインスケッチから始まる。オンゼの具象世界は、つねに独創的に再構築された、表現主義絵画や、ポップアート、マンガ、ポスターを包含している。

Humanized - 顔、体、街

これが、今回、東京の九段下にあるイタリア文化会館で7月18日（土）から開催されるローマ出身のアーティスト、オンゼのモノグラフのタイトルです。この展覧会は、折衷派で独創的な代表者の一人オンゼが、日本にイタリアの創造性を紹介する大切な機会となります。
同展は、ローマ市そして伊日財団の後援を受け、イタリア文化会館、ギャルド ・イタリー, ナバ（New Academy of Fine Arts）ミラノとビィウエア・オブ・ザ・ウルヴス社との提携により企画され、フェルッチョ・ジロミニ氏により監修されました。会期は8月1日までとなっています。

ステファノ・チェントンゼ（画家名　オンゼ）は20年間の活動の中でイラストレーターとして有名になりました。インダストリーアートの必要性とポスターや広告の持つ強烈なインパクトのある古典的な手法を厳密に取り入れています。その結果、破壊的で直接的な表現法とテクニックとの融合を可能とする同時代的なスタイルとなっています。

Fake Movies

Movies that do not exist, posters. They date back to the desire of a child who looked at the colorful posters of films and dreamed of becoming a poster designer. And here is the final attempt to escape from his weaknesses through the use of irony, pathetic negotiation with which one keeps alive their own desires without admitting them. Let’s not expose ourselves, let’s expose our contradictions to public mockery, and this will let us continue to feed them without having to be ashamed of them. The irony as an attempt to not put ourselves into question: no one can accuse you of anything because you're ironic. You have distanced yourself.
Onze chose this Russian roulette: believes and doesn’t believe. He’s on the defensive in the moment he exposes his work: he launches the attack on himself and to others saying that there will be no survivors. His fake movies are a ritual slaughter, in which he brings into play his own coherence to avoid the vanity of being above the common feeling.
Onze is an honest killer. He does not kill someone.
He destroys everything.

Daniele Brolli

the Face, the Body, the City

Humanized- the Face, the Body, the City is the title of the monographic exhibition dedicated to the Roman artist Onze - which will be inaugurated Saturday, July 18 in Tokyo at the prestigious seat of the Italian Institute of Culture in Kudanshita. The event represents an important goal for Italian creativity and brings to the land of the Rising Sun one of its most eclectic and original exponents. The exhibition, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture and Beware of the Wolves from Rome in collaboration with Garde Italy, with patronage by the Municipality of Rome and the Italy-Japan Foundation, and curated by Ferruccio Giromini, will be open to the public until August 1.
The Artist, Stefano Centonze - who signs his works with his shortened “Onze”, has marked his twenty plus year career by his illustrative activities, combining a rigorous application of technique with the demands of industry, the old manual with the biting effect of the affiche and advertising. The result is a contemporary style, recognizable and capable of producing effective contaminations between techniques and genres in an immediate and explosive language.
The exhibition offers a journey that spans more than 40 works by themes on face, body and city; llustrations for the book (reproduced in video) that meet a narrative project, and the project Affiches per una Cinecittà immaginaria (Posters for an Imaginary Cinecittà), where the artist - fascinated by posters of the films illustrated by large designers such as a Nano, De Seta, Cesselon - plays associating an image with a title to give the viewer the pleasure and the curiosity to "make another film. " The exhibition is enriched by video of Italian artist Alessandro Palazzi and Danish artist Flemming Borgen accompanying the visitor in the Onze art and language.

The exhibition

The exhibition, a collection of Onze’s productions from 2007 to today, focuses on the themes of 'the face, body, the city', testifying the close grip that art has with contemporary reality, in the strong desire to speak of today’s humanity and its social issues. "Onze’s faces, bodies and landscapes depart from the historical avant-garde, and return, but at the same time -- stresses the intellectual Goffredo Fofi - they are today, they are our own, they are contemporary and belong to the age which is called the globalization". "Industrial landscapes recall the suburbs at the time of the German Weimar (Radziwill) and later, those of Italian Mussolini’s era (Sironi). The ways in which he divides or overlaps, decomposes or composes songs of shapes and colors recall Rodcenko”. When the works of Onze must answer to satisfy the needs of clients, the works aren’t interpreted as a limitation but as "a challenge in which the product required (cover, illustration, poster, etc.) must first be appropriate to its task - says Giromini, curator of the exhibition – then meet customer expectations and, last but not least, be a worthy representation of the artist’s style "; in this light the exhibition in Tokyo is a testimony of the researched art that is not detached from the social function of the work. Onze’s main characteristic is the synthesis between abstract and utility, between coherence and eclecticism, between personal style and business needs that will make his artistic works a vital sign of present time. In his work, adds Fofi, "his exploration is coherent, consequent. It is the light of restlessness from which those who are alive should never feel excluded".

Photo by Alessandro Palazzi

Onze's bodies

"Gymnastic poses. Elegant cover male (macho) models. Babydoll culturistas and dancers. Agile boldness of posture. The bodies are beautiful, elegant, abstract silhouettes, from a dream, or better, from billboards advertising some product. Items for sale. The smooth harmony of the body is used to excite the senses, to better sell something to someone, to many. It is not that the bodies do not bear the marks of time, of a character who has been built or has been left to be imposed; it is that in advertising it is generally a taboo to consider bodies of this kind: real bodies, imperfect bodies (or sick, or senile)."

Goffredo Fofi