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FAILE, Held: Study in Blue, 2013
Entering into a new season signifies a moment to look into arts that reflect on our immediate environment. Danysz gallery is pleased to present online exhibition that aims to examine the work of six artists and their artistic engagement with lifeforms – either through text, painting, or photography.
Artists included in the exhibition are driven by curiosity for the urban and natural world and the intricate ways we are connected to it.
With the new season, our renewed state of mind suggests that we are open to serendipity. The result is that we stumble upon new behaviours, thoughts, movements or ways of being.
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André Saraiva, Sans Titre, 2018
André Saraiva draws on the improvisational potential and free play of possibilities as his style evolves into a more conceptual practice. His artistic language is revolving around bold colours. The artist's signature use of candy pink and azure blue, ranging from its faint hues to neon, expresses positive emotions; happiness, playfulness and even poetics.
Saraiva’s Mr. A, character with signature ‘X’ and ‘O’ eyes, represents artist’s alter ego. He began painting this iconic grinding face throughout the cities searching for a joyful interaction with the public space and passers-by. Mr. A is a visual shortcut, an emoticon used by the artist to project playfulness. The artist is curious to find out what happens when our behaviour is influenced by the idea of play. Looking at the phenomenology of movement, game brings about a form of kinesthetic freedom; games begin, are played out, even end, only to be repeated by players who want to continue playing, over and over again as the pleasure of the experience drives the desire.
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In the 2000s, André Saraiva began a performative project called ‘Love Graffiti’ in which he would spray paint the name of someone's lover at an address of his or her choosing.
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Robert MontgomeryLove Detonates, 2021Ara acrylic and glaze on canvas210 x 165 cm
82 5/8 x 65 in -
FaileHeld: Study in Blue, 2013Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas - original variant of 2157 x 216 cm
61 3/4 x 85 1/8 in -
Robert MontgomerySalvage Paradise, 2021Ara acrylic and glaze on canvas250 x 150 cm
98 3/8 x 59 1/8 in -
André SaraivaConstellation, 2017Acrylic and spray paint on cardboard and canvas100 x 100 cm
39 x 39 in.
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CastelbajacSans titre 4, 2019Acrylic and pastel on paper42 x 30 cm
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in -
André SaraivaSans Titre, 2018Acrylic and spray paint on canvas100 x 100 cm
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in -
FaileParadise, 2020Acrylic and spray paint on canvas153 x 122 cm
60 1/4 x 48 1/8 in -
CastelbajacSans titre 2, 2019Acrylic and pastel on paper30 x 42 cm
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
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“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
—Ernest Hemingway, 'A Moveable Feast'
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The work of Robert Montgomery introduces lyricism and a different kind of visual exploration. Often deeply emotional, inspired by the graffiti artists of East London and the poetry of Philip Larkin, Robert Montgomery’s text-based works are both ambiguous and emotionally poignant.
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Montgomery speaks to passers-by by placing his lyric messages at the most unexpected places, luring us to tap into our inner poet. Under his touch the city becomes a place of participation. He writes large-scale texts on billboards or light works; “whereas graffiti sprayers usually covertly place their tags in the grey zones of awareness—on underpasses, overpasses, or the walls of buildings; Montgomery operates openly, using, among others, bus stops, parks, and billboards as projection screens.” (Ingo Arend)
More recently, Robert Montgomery started producing poetic paintings depicting elements of human and natural form, often derived from his immediate surroundings. Using subtle color palette, his styles range from the naturalistic, to the abbreviated and abstract, indicating a way of differentiating among modes of representation, that is akin to postmodern practices.
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Castelbajac, Sans Titre 3, 2019
Drawn by Castelbajac’s playful hand, Sans Titre 3, 2019 offers a lyrical interplay of visual elements. Omitting accessible representation, the artist produces swirling abstract forms resembling automatism – a practice that seeks to give creative license to the unconscious mind.
Composed in a symphony of rhythmic markmaking, vigorous patterns of blue, orange, green and yellow, de-emphase the significance of the image, and instead project ideas of happiness and joy.
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In the work of these artists, the whimsical dreamscape, however, has a direct link to the contemporary societies. The changing shape of our environment and the multiplicity of botanical richness all expand our engagement with world, whether it is a result of prescribed rituals connected to physical activity or a simple visual and sensorial engagement with the outdoors.
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André SaraivaMister A 8, 2018Acrylic and spray paint on canvas100 x 100 cm
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in -
Robert MontgomerySentinels, 2012Oak, green polymer and 12volt LED lights150 x 340 cm
59 1/2 x 134 inEdition of 5 -
Eko NugrohoTake Care of the Sun, 2021embroidered painting154 x 139 cm
60 x 54 inches -
Erwin OlafShanghai Huai Hai 116 Still Life, 2017 - 2018Photograph
Fine art print75 x 56 cm
29.5 x 22 in.Edition of 12 plus 2 AP
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