Remap3 two

ReMap3

An international contemporary art programme

Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece

12 September – 30 October 2011

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THE MODERN INSTITUTE/TOBY WEBSTER LTD  / STILL LIFE, GOLD AND PEELING PAINT

Painting is the starting point for all Nicolas Party’s works. Applying colour to different surfaces – paper, canvas, walls and objects – allows him to produce a range of work from paintings to site-specific installations. Typically producing still-life and landscape paintings, Party utilises a regular vocabulary of figurative elements – pots, food, mountains and trees – interpreted using the tropes of cubes, cylinders, cones, spheres and pyramids. Using this consistent formal vocabulary, he makes a hierarchy of decorative patterns, resulting in frieze-like paintings, which are concurrently representational and fantastical. These works repeatedly interrogate the language of forms central to his practice.

For ReMap 3 Nicolas Party will produce a site-specific installation of wall drawings throughout the building he is occupying. Considering the peeling paint of the various walls, he will produce a show, which will look at the ephemeral aspect of an artwork as well as the idea of nostalgia. The effect of time on the space will be used as narrative and metaphorical starting point for the exhibition.

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PERES PROJECTS / GET THAT PATTY CAKE GOING

Leo GABIN (Lieven Deconinck, Robin De Vooght, and Gaëtan Begerem, b. Ghent, Belgium, live and work, Ghent, Belgium), met in Ghent as teenagers and have worked as a collective since the early 2000´s. They work in a variety of media including video, painting, sculpture and various other media. Leo Gabin teaches as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Brussels.

Leo Gabin draws inspiration from the internet‘s wealth of media carnage, private/public personal information and abundance of otherwise seemingly useless material, and builds works exploring the volatile and capricious nature of contemporary youth culture. Violence, sex, smug irony and sly social critique are all filtered through an aesthetic reflective of both recent art world trends and the street art of their youth.

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