L'Era Gallery is pleased to present Peindre la vie in Venice.

The exhibition, curated by Luigi Guzzardi, features several large-scale paintings reminiscent of South American murals, created by three street artists: Alexandre Sirvin, Alberto Vejarano Chanoir, and Jean-Philippe Illanes.

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These profoundly diverse paintings testify to a diverse production, rare in our age of repetition and commercial excess.

The use of color is predominant, penetrating the canvas, touching the walls, and merging with Venice, enlivening it and painting it with life.

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The Collectif 1980, which brings together these artists, plays with light and color with humor and humility, thus celebrating a hymn to life that seeks to spread throughout the world, starting from the city of Venice itself, which has always been a protagonist of a cultural melting pot.

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Street Art embraces a culture of improvisation and adaptation, a celebration of post-pop. This concept was developed in 1980s France by "figuration libre," a pictorial movement affiliated with New York Pop Art that shaped and molded two of the artists exhibited at L'ERA gallery, Alberto and Jean-Philippe.

In fact, Jean-Michel Alberola and François Boisrond, the movement's creators, were their professors at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, while Philippe Duboy, an architectural historian, played a decisive role in Alexandre's academic career and research.

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The three street artists are united by a deep love of light and color.

Alexandre Sirvin (France, 1979), trained as an architect, lives and works in Barcelona.

Between reality and imagination, he transcends conventional creative means to offer abstract scenarios. He created "ECOBOX," a participatory and ecological interface on the former wastelands of the industrial neighborhoods of La Chapelle in Paris.

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Alberto Vejarano Chanoir (Bogota, 1976) lives and works in Paris.

A Franco-Colombian artist, he is known for the energy and optimism of his murals and is based on the belief that art and artists are agents of positive change.

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Jean-Philippe Illanes (France, 1978) lives and works in London. His work is based on the observation of the urban environment, like an archaeologist searching for elements that elude us. He questions our legacy and the traces we will leave in the future.

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The exhibition is accompanied by a previously unpublished presentation by Philippe Duboy (1942–2024), architect, art historian, and professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning in Paris.

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The project is part of a program of initiatives aimed at bringing those who wish to connect to that borderless bridge known as culture. The projects, promoted by the L'ERA gallery association and supported by President Davide Arra, aim to promote and foster the dissemination of art in all its forms.