On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum on its membership in the European Union. Brexit thus resulted in England’s exit and consequently a series of issues that, to date, have led to strikes and protests and widespread unease throughout Britain.

Bob and Roberta Smith, born Patrick Brill OBE RA is an artist, activist, writer, author, musician, arts education advocate and one of Britain’s leading contemporary speakers. Known worldwide for his colorful slogans, he is a staunch advocate of art as a fundamental tool for democratic life, and in the exhibition at the A SOUTH space he proposes the solution to save England from Brexit: marry an english person!

The space in Pescara, co-founded by Sabrina Zimei and Massimiliano Scuderi, the latter also curator of the exhibition, is set up with numerous works by the artist produced for the occasion, a wunderkammer of everyday objects that become the objective correlative of the hand-painted slogans, whose message makes the exhibition space immersed in a pacifying and loving atmosphere, a sort of marriage agency composed of object trouvés.

Also evident is the relationship with another great work by Marcel Duchamp, le Grande Verre (1915/1923), the Great Glass, defined by world critics as one of the masterpieces of contemporary art. As with Duchamp’s work, which metaphorically placed at the center the bride laid bare and the bachelors in the form of bachelor machines, the nucleus of works on view in Pescara by Bob and Roberta Smith aim to affirm the principle that, just as the artist is free to create his art, so is the viewer to interpret it.

Bob and Roberta Smith’s exhibitions include recent solo shows in 2022 at TATE Modern in London, solo shows at la Panacee museum in Montpellier, PS1 MOMA in New York, participation in the group shows Altermodern curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at CCAC in San Francisco curated by Ralph Rugoff among others.

The exhibition will be open until March 25, 2023 by appointment.