Ryan Mendoza – Welcome to America – Giuseppina Napoli; Laura Cavallaro; Adriano Pricoco Lage Prijs

“….a young artist that recalls Goya, that studies the old Dutch masters or Picasso’s paintings, who always has the entirety of the history of painting in his gaze, seemingly the survivor of a forgotten, ancient war.” With these words, Milan Kundera recounts his Mendoza, that young American artist who left America to grow up in Europe some time ago. Yet today, Mendoza appears even younger than ever, despite his obsessions, his young girls, his photographs, and the memory of the stars and stripes flag. His …