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Gladstone Gallery Brussels: Andro Wekua "1995" - 22 Jan 2010 to 6 Mar 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Andro Wekua, 1995, 2009
Oil, spray paint, photograph, felt pen on canvas; 23.54 x 23.54 inches (59.8 x 59.8.2 cm) |
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Andro Wekua "1995" 12 Rue du Grand Cerf, Brussels January 22 through March 6, 2010 Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Andro Wekua. Creating vivid yet enigmatic tableaux composed of painting, sculpture, collage, and film, Wekua�s work explores notions of memory, history, and desire through a mixture of personal iconography and fragmented narrative. Often depicting figures wearing masks or with their eyes blinded, the young men and women seem haunted by their very surroundings�surroundings which recall both the turbulent recent past of Eastern Europe and the stylized decadence of popular culture. For this exhibition, Wekua has created paintings and works on paper depicting individuals from his past that had an influence or impact on various stages of his life, despite not having seen some of them since his adolescence. These portraits blur the lines of tradition by combining aspects of the subject culled from photographs and memories of different points in time: what begins with capturing one moment finds its completion in representing the same person years later. At other times, Wekua will start by painting one individual until he has exhausted his memory and then adds details of another person. These paintings, at times surreal, intermingle figurative and abstract renderings recalling the very phenomenology of remembering: the condensation and screening of memory and the contradiction between personal reminiscence and history. Installing these pieces in spaces lined with wallpaper of his own design, Wekua creates a portrait gallery as hall of mirrors in which the atmosphere recalls both subject and artist simultaneously. In this exhibition, Wekua manipulates the history of a genre long dependent upon both the tension and contradiction of idealization and realism, or, as he says, �A lot of it is fictional but for me it�s all very truthful.� Andro Wekua was born in 1977 in Georgia, and studied visual arts there and in Basel, Switzerland. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous museums, including Neue Kunst Halle, St. Gallen, Switzerland; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Hydra Workshops, Greece; Camden Arts Center, London; the De Haalen Haarlem; and Le Magasin, Grenoble; and he has participated in various group shows including the 4th Berlin Biennial in 2006. His exhibition �Workshop Report� is currently on view at Weils, Brussels, having traveled from Museion in Bolzano, Italy. For further information please contact Gael Diercxsens +32 2 513 35 31 or [email protected] Opening hours : Tuesday - Friday, 10am-6 pm; Saturday 12-6pm 530 West 21st Street Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa Through January 23, 2010 515 West 24th Street Sharon Lockhart �Lunch Break� Through January 30, 2010 Jan Dibbets 515 West 24th Street February 5 through March 13, 2010 Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets continues his exploration into phenomenology of optics and image making in a manner that is both formally inventive and witty. For this exhibition of new work, Dibbets continues to study the nature of the horizon as the structuring matrix of vision. In combining photographs of both land and sea, he establishes varied geometries in order to show the primacy of the horizon to the visual conception of the world. Banks Violette 530 West 21st Street February 12 through April 17, 2010 Gladstone Gallery is pleased to collaborate with Team Gallery to present a new installation by artist Banks Violette. Known for his installations, sculptures, and drawings that combine minimalist form with sub-cultural iconography, Violette uses a variety of materials�such as cast polyurethane, salt, sheet metal, florescent lighting, and mirrors�to explore the binaries of light and dark across the boundaries of plastic materialization. For more information please contact Sascha Crasnow at 212 206 9300 or [email protected] |
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