The sultry gazes and potent swagger of Iris van Dongen's brooding temptresses beguile with a style that combines the elegance of Pre-Raphealite painting with the stern glamour of film noir heroines. Don't be mistaken though, these alluring femme fatales are just as powerful as the dark forces who seek to torment them, as those demons which torment us most cruelly are often the ones that lurk with in our own desires.
Comedy has always found a way to disarm and surreptitiously subjugate those satanic forces which threaten us. Part kink and part jest, Kavallieratos's sculptures and drawings are loaded with a biting black humor, that unabashedly mocks political correctness and the austerity of the art establishment.
