144 pages Text by Gianni Romano 21 x 14 cm Language: English, Italian Paperback Publisher: Postmedia books 2005
The book - mainly photographic - tells the two years of work of the collaboration between the artists Ozmo and Abbominevole and remains the only documentation of their activity. Halfway between street art and public art, the photographic documentation of the urban interventions of Ozmo+Abbominevole also shows us a Milan very different from the image of efficiency to which we have accustomed the media. Milan seems a great suburb, often in progress, other times it is an ancient Milan with streets and buildings destined to be demolished to make way for the urban renewal of entire areas. In this short period Ozmo+Abbominevole were able to filter the typical strategy of field intervention with a translation language characteristic of contemporary art. White Space Reduced, the second part of the book, imagines the work done in May 2005 on the occasion of their first solo exhibition in Pietrasanta. The artists' intervention, thanks to the large window facing the street, transforms the gallery into a street with wall interventions, posters and collages, bringing in the beautiful Renaissance space of the square of the Tuscan town all the pop imagination and references to the world of art and entertainment typical of their work.
