Exhibition

SYSTEMS / LAYERS

24 Oct 2014 – 23 Nov 2014

Event times

Monday to Sunday 10am - 4.30pm

Cost of entry

Free

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cueB Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • Brockley Station, London Overground, Southern Trains from/to London Bridge
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About

Andrea Zvadova was born in Bratislava, Slovakia.à‚ Her beauty, fashion and portrait photography has been widely published in periodicals from New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Prague, amongst others. She has contributed cover stories to various fashion and style magazines across Europe.à‚  More recently she has been shortlisted for the International Cannes Photo Mode Festival 2014, a prize she was runner-up for last year. à‚ à‚  Her extensive travels have led her through several city streets.à‚  She has recorded these journeys using a multiple exposure technique. As layers of recognisable images build, they become abstracted. By overlaying captured glances of the streets of London, Andrea transforms them into collages of time and perspective. Reverberating skylines are given a brief kaleidoscopic spin. Towering structures are echoed into fractal memories. The camera goes beyond merely recording a single image and begins to create an experience. The fading memory of a dizzying glance upward, or a daydream of castles in the clouds. à‚  In other photos Andrea uses an oil printing technique originating at the beginning of the 20th century. By the 1890s, photography had become more mechanical and many artists were looking for ways in which a photograph would show the hand of the artist.à‚  When a dichromated gelatin is applied to paper and exposed under UV light, the exposed parts harden and will accept an oil-based ink. The ink is applied to each print individually, allowing for greater control but requiring considerable skill and patience.à‚ Oil printing belongs to the so-called 'noble' print processes. The final image is influenced by the artist's hand, so that it is impossible to make two identical prints. It is a time consuming process, with each print taking up to a week from start to completion. à‚  à‚  Andrea's experiments with the cyanotype technique on a variety of materials have yielded equally unique and individual results. The process was originally used to copy architectural drawings, deriving the term 'blueprints'. Here, Andrea has demonstrated its versatility by printing onto watercolour paper, glass and silk. In her silks installation, Andrea offers a further examination of illusion through multi layering. The delicate transparency of the sheets allows the viewer to explore the effect of overlaying images. The familiar gas work structures become latticed into abstract geometric compositions as you move around them.à‚ à‚ à‚  For more information and images, please contact Franco La Russa at info@cuegallery.comà‚ 

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