Miss Van 2008
I got giddy when I opened my mailbox and saw Miss Van's piece peeking out at me from the cover of this month's Juxtapoz. I've always admired the way she has feminized street art with her sourpuss, eyelash batting characters. But it's this new work which speaks to me on a much deeper level. Mythological beastie girls with rainbow-hued hair and impassioned, tumultous expressions - irresistible, no?
F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E
EXHIBITION TITLE: MISS VAN & VICTOR CASTILLO: CANTO NEGRO Y BRUJERIAS
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, 26 JULY, 19:00 – 22:00 H
EXHIBITION DATES: 26 JULY – 23 AUGUST 2008
GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 12:00 – 18:00 H
CONTACT PERSON: MERRY KARNOWSKY
GALLERY: MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY
TORSTRASSE 175
10115 BERLIN-MITTE
GERMANY
PHONE: +49 30 28 50 30 72
WEB: http://www.mkgallery.com/
EMAIL: mkgallery@mindspring.com
MISS VAN & VICTOR CASTILLO: CANTO NEGRO Y BRUJERIAS
Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin is proud to present CANTO NEGRO Y BRUJERIAS, featuring the paintings of Barcelona-based artists Miss Van (France) and Victor Castillo (Chile). The two unfold their unique but harmonious iconographies in a pictorial exercise of intersecting ideas. These artists approach from their personal perspectives subjects like seduction, desire, enchantment, and the game of infantile cruelty. The title of the exhibition attempts to unite these proposals and at the same time, alludes to Spanish culture, superstition and witchcraft as basic context, and dark invocations of common ghosts.
The “poupees” of Miss Van, always surrounded in sensational atmospheres, embody the surrounding energies of the loving spell that they seduce and catch. All are portrayed in mystical scenarios, between meditation and liberation of evil, introspection and exorcism. Through their closed eyes, we enter into the private worlds of each, reflecting on their dark side and feminine fragility. Miss Van’s work has shown in the United States, France, England, Austria, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Australia.
Victor Castillo shows us a mixture of classic and comic painting loaded with infantile personages of subjects: macabre, joy, seduction and the unscrupulous pleasures of the destruction game. At the same time he also makes references to contemporary realities and a new generation’s stimulations from the increasing bombardment by the media. Castillo’s work has shown in Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Belgium and Taiwan.
For More Information please contact Merry Karnowsky at mkgallery@mindspring.com. For inquiries in the U.S., call 323.933.4408
Posted by: MK Gallery | July 17, 2008 at 05:20 PM