Exhibition

Painted Realities

7 Feb 2014 – 16 Feb 2014

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Tuesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm

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Free

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Hanmi Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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Painted Realities 7th — 16th February 2014 (Closed Monday) Preview 6th February 6pm-9pm Olarn Chiaravanont | Bernat Daviu | Super Future Kid | Mark Nader Hanmi Gallery is pleased to announce the 31st interim exhibition ‘Painted Realties' by four international artists that explore appropriation, authorship and identity through the materiality of paint. Appropriation has become among painters a widespread resource in their work since the early 70s. The painters in this exhibition use different strategies that seem to keep painting and paint still relevant in the process of manoeuvring around this current ocean of visual data. When abstraction and representational works are brought together we begin to see a language that disputes the classical antagonism between these terms. By looking at paintings more fully as painting, the works can be appreciated without the need to rely solely on specific footnoted theory. The seemingly oppositional languages inhabiting in the show are purposely set in tension in a way that the particular prevails over the general. The process of painting is a resource for these artists to grasp the physicality of the image against the growing tendency of virtual relations and communications. Brush strokes, drips or impasto surfaces become essential for explaining the world that they inhabit. Artists: Olarn Chiaravanont (born 1986) is a Thai painter based in London and Bangkok. He is a recent MFA Fine Art graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been exhibiting internationally in London, Berlin and Bangkok, most recently in a solo show at Galerie koal, Berlin (2013) Bernat Daviu was born in 1985. Some of his recent shows include Fundació Vila Casas Painting Award (Can Framis Museum, Barcelona, Spain), Shelves, Chairs and Boiler suits (Tollbodallmenningen 39, Bergen, Norway), John Moores Painting Prize (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK), Stuff on the wall, on the floor, floating in the air..., (Guest Projects, London, UK), ‘The decade 2010-2020' The Museum as hostage to fortune' (Pigeon Wing Gallery, London, UK). Born 1981 in East Germany, Super Future Kid is a painter currently living and working in London, England. She attended the Chelsea Collage of Art and Design and the Academy of Art Berlin Weissensee where she graduated with a Diploma in Textile and Surface Design in 2008. Since then, she has participated in several shows nationally and internationally in cities including London, New York and Berlin. Mark Nader (born in 1986) lives and works in London. Exhibiting internationally, including a solo show at J-space, 798 art district, Beijing, 2013. And group shows in London, including the Hot One Hundred, Schwartz gallery in Hackney Wick, 2013.

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