The New Disorder

 

THE NEW DISORDER

curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou

 

The Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center presented the group show «The New Disorder» curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou.  Duration:  8 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

 

 

"In an age of ready-mades installation art, video art, performance, the question of what is art practice is more complex. Since 1960s the medium or material condition of the work has tended to become increasingly relative to the means, location and context of utterance. Nowadays, where information and technology, are dominant it is hard to place artists as painters, sculptors, photographers etc.

 

Artists : Dimitrios Antonitsis, Michael Bevilacqua, Panos Famelis, Leo Gabin, Aris and Lakis Ionas / The Callas, Thanos Kyriakides, Bjarne Melgaard, Eva Mitala, Mason Saltarrelli, Dean Sameshima, Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe

 

The artists of the New Disorder are from varying backgrounds in music, visual arts, fine arts, performance and they are using their unique vision to create art that can "help" us to make sense of our complex relationship in the outside world. They feel the need to understand the relationship between art and society and to conceive at the level of idea and concepts how art and life might be realigned.

 

Art that is happening in the real world, in film sets, in design studios, on fashion shoots, in workshops, in the streets. The artists invite their audience to question ways of seeing and experiencing art and to constantly change their perspectives. They also explore feelings of alienation, displacement and distance in time and space. "

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Draw Into Paint

 

Leo GABIN

Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght

Collective since 2000

Born in Ghent, Belgium

Live and work in Ghent, Belgium

Leo GABIN have worked as a collective since the early 2000's in a variety of media including video, painting, drawing and sculpture. Leo GABIN teaches as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where they received their Fine Art degrees.

Leo GABIN take inspiration from the internet's proliferation of media images, particularly the wealth of information that uncomfortably straddles the private and public realm, and harvest content from this never ending morass.

 

 

The work and methodology implicitly explores the transience and capriciousness that underpins youth culture. References to sex, violence and celebrity, nestle among a canny social critique that manifests through an aesthetic which combines the influence of the street art they were exposed to as teens with a consciousness of art world trends.

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