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Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea is pleased to present Tropicalissimo, the new solo show by British artist Jason Martin. Four years after his last exhibition in these spaces, Martin returns with a whole new body of works created during the lockdown period, which has conceded with a phase of great inspiration.

Such inspiration comes directly from a Brazilian artistic movement called Trópicalia, emerged in the 1960’s, which merged Brazilian and African rythms with British and American psychedelia. The artist appropriated then the word “Trópicalia” with the Italian word “bellissimo”, thus …