UPCOMING EXHIBITION
NEW WORKS AND NEW ERA FOR GRETTA SARFATY
19th March - 5th April 2013
The last show to be held in Sartorial Contemporary Art space (Gretta's space in King's Cross London), is a self-referential extravaganza about the artist career.The artist revolutionizes the idea of a retrospective, a new Ars Poetica, as the exhibition offer us a glance into the future experiencing the past. Gretta has directed her own Fellini's 8 and 1/2 finale. At the opening night joined by artist's friends she will exhibit artworks that reinterpret her memories.
FAMILIA MEMORABILIS presents several snap-shots that preserve specific moments of the artist's personal life. Revealing the photographic reality - which immortalizes lived experience - works reveal a paradigm shift between past and present. Aesthetically poignant, they investigate the mind as archive, simultaneously usettling the viewer whilst giving them glimpses of moments that otherwise remain private.
The series WEDDING PICTURES captures the flow of 'real time', reviewing the photo album of Gretta's first wedding. Each page is transformed into digital format, assembled into pairs so as to create a single image. The artist didn't feel the need to incorporate the concrete act of painting; it was enough to include herself in the form of the subject. Commissioning a painter found on the internet, Marc Orriss, to produce five oil paintings that are replicas of her photographic works. Using image manipulation to alter the private and public perception of the self, these pieces act as a mirror in which Gretta's projection of herself creates an optical illusion of reality. Evoking joy and frivolity, a paradox remains ever-present as death is transposed with images of the artist's youth.
Continuing with images of the artist, Ira Schneider's film 'Video of Gretta Painting 1988/2013' will also be shown.
Alongside the exhibition there will be an interactive performance ' Sartorial Giveaway of a Lifetime!' which will take place on the Friday 22 March 2013.
For more info please visit www.sartorialart.com
NEW WORKS AND A NEW ERA FOR GRETTA SARFATY (Private view: Tuesday 19 March, 19:00 - 21:00)
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