Room 1: JUDAS ARRIETA
Exhibition title: MONDAY
Room 2: IGOR EŠKINJA
Exhibition title: FLEETING
Exhibition dates: 31st of January 2008-15th of March 2008
Opening: 31st of January 2008, hours 7.30 p.m.
On January 31 ADN Gallery will inaugurate a double exhibition: Monday by Spanish Judas Arrieta and Fleeting by Croatian Igor Eškinja. Both artists are from the generation of the Seventies but they grew up and developed their creativity in different ways: Arrieta basically uses painting and drawing, along with sculpture and video, to mould eastern pop iconography filtered by western thinking; Eškinja prefers installations and interventions in public spaces which are documented in aseptic pictures stimulating our consideration about the perceptive issue. Arrieta paints and draws his characters on industrial tissues full of bright colors: crossing over lines, the faces are mixed up creating a pop-tasting mass. Eskinja plays with reality and fiction in neutral spaces, with primary colors or with gray and white, using poor materials for his installations, like scotch-tape and dust, coming from everyday-life. Arrieta talks about contemporary restlessness and about the esthetic of chaos and mixture. Eškinja gives attention to problems related to visual way-of-thinking, to perception, to the symbolic space of the gallery and its complex relationships with art world. Common denominator: irony.
Judas Arrieta - Monday
“My life is a piece of a landscape and my works are pieces of my paradise.”(Judas Arrieta)
Born in Hondarribia in 1971, Judas Arrieta had an infancy of full immersion in television programs, especially in animation “made in Japan”. Once he attended University he discovered big-size painting and since that time he started his artistic manifesto, “Manga art”, in which heroes from his infancy reappear populating his pictures as becoming personal myths of the alter ego. It’s just like Judas Arrieta recreates an eastern character who has abducted him. He affirms to have an “Otaku-Nippon” personality which is present in his whole work. Since the beginning Arrieta’s work has been developing on two different but parallels tracks, as he tells us: “one is history of art, especially painting, and the other is Asian pop iconography or the manga. My work is and has been an investigation on how to involve and use all the influences in a new and personal way.”The figurativeness of Judas Arrieta can be resumed in the manga universe, appropriation of visual fragments, which he de-contextualizes and transforms in abstract on recycled textile supports, sails and wood; a meditation on contemporary uneasiness and an exercise of pictorial hybridism. The exhibitions of the last years have been interdisciplinary, an interaction among painting, drawing, digital art, sculpture and video.
Judas Arrieta exhibited in Europe and Asia. Received the grant of Artistic Creation BBK (1997) and the Honour Mention of Bancaixa Award (1999); he has been selected in the ABC 2007 Award and in Premio Generación 2006 Award of Caja Madrid. His work has been adquired in pubblic collection as ARTIUM, Fundación BBK, INJUVE and UNED. Lives and works in Beijing
http://www.beijingdreams.net/
IgorEškinja – Fleeting (Fugace)
Igor Eškinja was born in Rijeka (Croatia) in 1975 and studied Fine Arts in Venice (Italy) until graduation in 2002. Since his very first works, Eškinja focused on the so-called “visual experiences”: the leading role of his exhibitions is not played by the object but by the audience, as the artist literally plays with our expectations and our perception of third dimension.
Eškinja tries to create situations at the same time worrying and amazing, critical and subversive, realizing little and simple interventions in the exhibiting space, stretching out to minimalism concerning the choice of materials and the expressiveness. The only truly important thing is the observer and his perceptive experience throughout the temporariness of the exhibition, instead of the real and persistent existence of the object. Eškinja’s works are declaration about the falseness of vision, relativity of reference systems, in a complete revolution of our experience. Compositions are two-dimensional, perfectly treated in the details using simplicity to create metaphors and symbologies. The fleeting of the title is the quickness of perception and its precariousness, the illusion of reality, the transitory of human reference systems in a world made of images, perceptive habits, and fossilization of the external relationships. In actuality Eškinja’s installations are also fleeting, sometimes they are even destroyed at the end of the exhibition, reinvented with different materials in another combination of elements.
Recently Eškinja has participated to the 3rd Biennial of Prague and he will have a personal show in 2008 at CAB of Burgos.
In this exhibition ADN Gallery presents a series of pictures, a meditation on the issue of space and its altered perception in a fantastic dimension, and installations, as the carpet made by using dust picked up from his room.
For further information or high-resolution images, please contact with the gallery:
Susanna Corchia, info@adngaleria.com
