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Robert Longo has been defined as one of the most provocative artists in the contemporary scene. His paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and - since 1998 - his photographs have been exhibited in the world's greatest galleries. His first one-man show, at New York's Metro Pictures in 1981, commanded international critical attention. His works have been exhibited and bought by the most important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art of New York, London's Tate Gallery, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Los Angeles County Museum. He took part in Documenta 7 and 8, and in the 1997 Venice Biennial. Moreover, after having worked for a long time as a film-maker, he made his dŽbut as a film director with \"Johnny Mnemonic\" in 1996. Particularly enthralling, and disconcerting, Longo's Superheroes are works that perfectly express the fusion of the power of the photographic or film image with the large-scale work of art. They are colour (C-print) blow-ups of tiny action-dolls, taken from famous comic-strip characters. Mainly responsible for the discovery of these characters and of the visual quality of the present-day comic-strip were Robert Longo's three sons. But the artist himself declares his open admiration for some of the creators of this popular, constantly evolving cultural phenomenon. But if all these comic-strip stars are designed with their own universe and a specific mythology, the Superheroes clearly take their origin from the myth of the hero, a myth commom to almost all cultures. Those myths which, after all, are readapted by industry and the mass media to standardise the individual from childhood on.