Exhibition

In Your Mind by Derrick Santini

11 Jun 2015 – 22 Jun 2015

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10am - 6pm Daily10am - 6pm Daily

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Pertwee, Anderson & Gold

London, United Kingdom

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In this exhibition, the third series of Lenticular Photo-works, Santini’s imagery truly seems to come of age, through this mesmerising medium he has found digital techniques give him the freedom to experiment and create way beyond the bounds of 'straight' photography, answering cerebral questions about birth, life, death, creation, and ultimately Love.

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Following on from his headline-grabbing solo exhibition ‘Metamorphosis’ at SCREAM gallery in 2012, and ‘I Love You,’ at Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery in 2010, ‘In Your Mind’ completes Santini’s holy trinity of corporal and mythological lenticular exhibitions.

The complicated lenticular process of layering a series of still images into one merged file and then printing onto the back of a special ribbed plastic sheet, which acts as a lens, enables Santini to give life to his otherworldly ideas. Spending last year photographing his subject and muse (Katie Keight) in various swimming pools and the Majorcan ocean, before taking the traditional lenticular process to another level by creating animated loops from the edited sets of stills, and transporting the model into various scenarios: She becomes a Mermaid swimming in the depths of the sea, a naked nymph jetting through the sky in a rainbow colored bubble, a 90s rave chick in a Soul II Soul-esque video clip, and a 70s space cadet pirouetting through the galaxy in a Kubrickian space craft. 

The exhibition ‘In Your Mind’ will feature 14 new large-scale lenticular prints.  Santini is also creating an installation at the entrance of the gallery that will take the visitor on a journey underwater, with a giant Lenticular wall piece of the figure swimming alongside the viewer as they enter the show, and take a trip inside the mind of the artist. 

By shooting in water he has been able to continue the obsession with mythology and the human condition, that was evident in his Leda and the Swan and Magpie series featured in ‘Metamorphosis’, by creating a Mermaid who gives life to his new series of Lenticular prints.  Santini’s Lenticular of a naked woman with a Swan caught the attention of the Metropolitan Police when it was exhibited in the window of SCREAM gallery in 2012, who promptly requested it’s withdrawal from the window.  The Mermaid images have already caught the eye of Damien Hirst who purchased the first 3 completed works, and the mythological figure is experiencing something of a renaissance in popular culture this year with the imminent release of ‘Pan’, featuring Cara Delevingne as a Goddess of the Sea. 

For the new exhibition Santini has also created fetal imagery that reference birth and rebirth, trippy cubist animations celebrating the joy of life, and the ‘Love’ image of a nude torso twisting and turning in an infinite loop against a black background, representing the circle of life, and Genesis – the beginning of life itself. 

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