Once Upon A Time (the Dorothy Circus Gallery (vol. 1)

Once Upon a Time is the first of three chapterstelling the story of Dorothy Circus, one of the mostfamous contemporary artżs galleries in Rome.Alexandra Mazzanti, owner and curator, stood outimmediately for her artistic foresight and herunconditional love for the Low Brow & PopSurrealism movements. She deeply believes in herproject and its potentialities, up to the point ofmaking Dorothy Circus a landmark of its kind -especially in the European market, where theGallery has become the first reference address forPopSurrealism.Also the artists she hosts are firstclass: Ray Caesar, Mark Ryden, TaraMcPherson, Ron English, NicolettaCeccoli and Camille Rose Garcia areonly some of the names involved inher three-year project. Once Upon aTime is a yearbook of the gallery,where you can find all the events andartists who populated the area in2011, with critical essays, biographies and many pictures. For fans of the genre itrepresents a book that cannot be waived, for the curious who is approaching thisworld for the first time, itżs simply a clear and useful guide to an artistic genreincreasingly understood and appreciated in official circles - and beyond. With itsmagical as well as disturbing atmosphere, one foot in a dream and the other in anightmare, the Pop Surrealism movement took its first steps in Los Angeles in thelate Seventies, where it met with Surrealist movement, and at their happymarriage they invited Cinema, Comics, Music and many other realities in perpetualbecoming. Up to the present days,when the movement is characterized bydifferent kind of artists and a thousand fascinating contamination. Once Upon aTime takes you in a world that you cannot resist, where reality and fiction merge ina perception straddling Carrollżs and Lovecraftżs imaginary.