By Nicola Verlato, currently on show at the Fabio Paris Art Gallery in brescia, Italy. The exhibition blurb reads:

"More is more: so, in the primordial soup the tornado – which is at once compositional stratagem, narrative element and metaphor for an art form (contemporary art), in which, like the artist says, “high and low, culture and trivia, present and distant past are thrown together by a torrent of energy which overwhelms everything in its path” – gives birth, you can encounter all the elements of the spiritual history of America. Burlesque – represented by a tribute to its queen, the artist Julie Atlas Muz (incarnation of “the darkest form of femininity, potent and destructive, but also a harbinger of new orders”), who is currently exhibiting with Jeffrey Deitch – stands alongside landscapes of the American midwest, which are in turn mediated as much by Disney as by the regional realism of the American scene; classic legends are contaminated by nineteenth century fairy tales and by new forms of narration, the hypertextual, multiple stories woven by the players of online videogames, the myth-makers of the 21st century; junk food, iPods and manga characters are crossbred with Bronzino, and the mortal remains of our consumer-driven civilization are rescued from the dump and given a place within time-honored traditions, from carnival rites to accounts of the apocalypse. Verlato’s work assimilates old and new media, near future and distant past, art and trash, and offers it all up in a new order of painting. Verlato not only appears to capture the torrent of energy that is sweeping through our culture, but also channels it towards a new outlet. A new era is coming..."

(Thanks to Francesco Monico for the pointer)