Syndicate: JEUX D'AMOUR exhibition in London

[ichaela vlkova <michaela@deepdisc.com>]

http://www.deepdisc.com/hybrid

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press release

JEUX D'AMOUR

4 February - 10 March 2000

curated by HYBRID
organised in collaboration with WIGMORE FINE ART
@Wigmore Fine Arts, 104 Wigmore St, W1 and @Battersea Arts Centre,
Lavender Hill

Begoña del Arco (Spain), Slawomir Belina (Poland), Veronika Bromova
(Czech Republic), Simon Costin (UK), Edwin David (UK), Sharon Kivland
(UK), Sophia Kosmaoglou (Greece), Katarzyna Kozyra (Poland), Charles
Kriel (UK), Fred Mann(UK), Eulà lia Valldosera (Spain)

Additional events:

            6th of Feb 6pm - Battersea Arts Centre - Veronika Bromova,
Czech
            photography and new media artist talks about her works
including the ones
            in JEUX D'AMOUR

            11th of Feb 7 pm - Polish Cultural Institute - Hanka
Wroblewska (Zacheta
            Gallery in Poland) talks about the exhibition + panel
discussion

            13th of Feb 7pm - Battersea Arts Centre - videoprojection
screening of
            new works by German performance artists Adele&Eva

As a tribute to Roland Barthes, 'Jeux d'Amour', an exhibition taking
place
simultaneously at Battersea Arts Centre and Wigmore Fine Art, brings
together new work from eleven international artists in an exploration of

love and desire at the beginning of the new millenium.

The photographs of Eulà lia Valldosera and the playful paintings of
Sophia
Kosmaoglou deal with the futility of human relationships. While
Valldosera
takes inspiration from everyday situations, Kosmaoglou subverts the male

authority of fairy tales.

Katarzyna Kozyra reflects on love among the aged. Her new video
installation
is as moving as 'Men's Bathouse', shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
Begoña
del Arco's series of small paintings is a comment on the sexual
awakening
that widens the difference between innocence and experience. The wounds
inflicted by a painful relationship are the subject of Fred Mann's text
paintings, influenced by the poetry of Apollinaire and e.e cummings.
In Charles Kriel's sound piece, a lover reads out a letter to a beloved
not
as a personal memento but as a universal statement about the memories,
fantasies and expectations that are commonly associated with love.
Slawomir
Belina engages the viewer in a dark game of pleasure and pain, depicting
the
body not as a site of self-adoration, but of self-exploration. In
Veronika
Bromova's 'Zemzoo', the installation that she showed at the 1999 Venice
Biennale, the artist's body is bound and deformed. In her series of
photographs of the shared moments of intimacy between lovers, the
private
becomes public.

Renowned for his work for Alexander McQueen's catwalk shows, sculptor
and
jeweller Simon Costin turns the body's secretions into objects of
desire. In
Sharon Kivland's work, desire enters a more visible, semi-public sphere.

Edwin David's diptych, consisting of a negative and a positive exposure
of
the same image featuring a transvestite, is an attempt to go beyond the
binary logic of male versus female.





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michaela vlkova
hybrid creative curating
http://www.deepdisc.com/hybrid


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