GROUP SHOW
Haluk Akakçe, Walead Beshty, Alan Charlton, Alberto Garcia-Alíx, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt,
Mike Kelley, Bharti Kher, Moshekwa Langa, Nikos Navridis, Jim Shaw, Jeffrey Vallance,
Monique van Genderen, Marnie Weber, Katerina Zacharopoulou

September 8 – October 25, 2007

Haluk Akakçe (born 1970, Turkey) is a child of the digital revolution who works in a broad range of media, effortlessly moving from low-tech drawing and wall painting to, more recently, digitally animated video. Akakçe’s figures are cyber-visions of techno-organic hybrids. They remind the fluid morphology of the body in Japanese comics, the contorted visions of Hieronymus Bosch and the arabesques of classical Islamic architecture.

Walead Beshty (born 1976, U.K) is an artist and critic. In this group show he presents the work «Do you feel your hands into my soul». It is a wall hanging piece in which the artist renders in lettering excised from fields of golden glitter snippets of yearning pop lyrics.This work expreses the feeling of misplaced craving, thwarted attempts to connect, earnest affection ill spent and unrequited.

Alan Charlton, (born 1948, U.K) creates large grey monochrome panels. Grey is the only tone he explores.What he wants to achieve through his work, is to create paintings with no illusions, straightforward and urban in feel.

Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, (born 1947, Belgium) uses black and white photagraphs. His photos are rigorous and the artist does not use any new technologies to reproduce them. Although he deals with subjects that are humorous the works have a strange mysticism and austerity.

Alberto Garcia-Alíx (born 1956, Spain) Master Spanish photographer Alberto Garcia Alíx is known as one of the best oeuvres in contemporary Spanish photography. He is the foremost photographer to emerge from Spain's La Movida, the post-Franco era of free expression. Through his documentarian approach, he vibrantly captures the atmosphere of 1980's Madrid and beyond. His photographs fall into two fundamental genres: portraiture and still life. They are often provacative, erotic, and personal.

The Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley (born 1954, U.S.A) is engaged with sculpture, painting, installations and Performance art. His work is characterized by his ability to reveal the social and moral substructures of the modern society that is dominated by suppression and conflicts.

Bharti Kher’s (born 1969, U.K) practice encompasses digital photography and sculptural works (made out of bindies, iron, bronze or resin cast). Her art has a range of meanings and connotations across historical and contemporary periods, exploring also her interest in kitsch and popular consumer culture.

Moshekwa Langa (born 1975, S. Africa) is moving in more than a single medium. Incorporating rags and threads, books and maps, sticks and stones, debris and documents, he brings together potentially disparate social and physical worlds which highlight the flexibility of identity. Moshekwa Langa is considered a “pioneer and flag-hoister of a new generation of black post-apartheid individualists promulgating an art not of ideology but ideas, whose struggle site lies not in didactic political turf but in more ineluctable existential realms.

The photographic piece “Breath” is a new work by Nikos Navridis (born 1958, Greece) who is working during the past few years on the idea of breath as a force with tremendous energy that is not diffused but is constantly shared.

Jim Shaw ( born 1952, U.S.A) belongs to the generation of American artists that have shaped the cultural west coast of USA during the late ‘80s till today.
His work is interwoven with American pop culture elements that alternate in a structural context of narrative themes. He is a conceptual artist known for playing cut and paste with styles ranging from Minimalism to monster magazine illustration, through several multipart, quasi-narrative projects.

The artist Jeffrey Vallance (born 1995, U.S.A) uses his own irrationally rational observations and years of research to connect paranormal phenomena with popular culture. With a shrewd sense of humor, Vallance explores all aspects of American culture with bizarre logic focusing on the relationship between the religious and the secular. The artist presents a haunting world where science, religion, politics, celebrity, art and idle speculation mingle in the morass of mass culture.

Monique van Genderen ( born 1965, U.S.A) creates large abstract paintings made out of oil, enamel and vinyl, applied on wood panels or on wall. These vibrant abstractions synthesize painting, drawing, collage, and site-specific, wall-based installations.
Her works play with a sense of illusion and depth and her installations usually replicate aspects of the interior architecture or the decorative elements of each space.

Marnie Weber (born 1959, U.S.A) creates works of fiction through the use of video, collage and sculptural installations. By combining her own mythology of imaginary creatures, animals and female characters in different mediums, she creates fairy tale worlds whose inhabitants are placed in dreamlike settings.
By using a purposeful “staginess” through the use of costumes, illusions, miniatures, props and my own music, she attempts to create stories of passion, struggle and transformation. The animal imagery in both the videos and collages attempt to give humor and sweetness to life’s weightier issues such as birth, death, discovery, sex, fear and destiny.

The new works of Katerina Zacharopoulou reflect her continuous practice with dialogues and her hundred-hours exposure in front of the camera. These new works are collages based on the real dialogues that she had with artists, during her TV show.

The exhibition will last until October 25. The gallery remains open Tue-Fri 10:30 – 20:00, Sat 12:00- 16:00.