Hollywood is a mental place, a metaphor. If in the collective imagination Paris is the city of love, Hollywood is a metaphor for sex: this is what Jeff Burton's images seem to suggest in his second solo exhibition at Galleria Franco Noero.

The artist began his artistic career as a photographer on the sets of pornographic films. Working backstage, Burton offers an ironic yet melancholic vision of another, lesser-known Hollywood, citing the American realist tradition in painting and photography. Saturated colours that recall a vision of paradise on earth, sumptuous flats, bizarrely shaped swimming pools, oiled bodies, little starlets from the American provinces in search of the 'American dream'.

"Jeff Burton loves Los Angeles, a city based on the denial of everything: of age, of inclemency, of the weather; the images of his Hollywood are never explicit, however, choosing not to show explicit acts, but details that are both amusing and melancholic." - Bruce Hainley in Artforum.
"One of the most intriguing things about Jeff Burton is that the artist looks and observes and looks away in the process. His images, even the most explicit ones, are immersed in a sunny and colourful atmosphere that becomes as pleasantly distant as the Paris of imagined love captured in one of the many black and white photos that have remained in our memory." - Dave Hickney in Dreamland.

On the occasion of his solo exhibition, the Californian artist presents a series of 10 photographs depicting the large 'Hollywood' sign over the hill in Los Angeles, flanked by 10 photographs in which Burton interprets the Hollywood imagery.