ART IS DEAD
Preview: Saturday, 27th November, 6-9 p.m
Open: 1st December 2010 - 8th Jan 2011
Opening Hours: 12-5pm Wed-Sat, or by appointment
PRESS RELEASE
GALERIE DEADFLY is delighted to announce Art Is Dead, the opening exhibition in its new gallery in Friedrichshain, in the eastside of Berlin.
Presenting work by four artists from Glasgow, Scotland and four Berlin-based artists with varying backgrounds including performance, video, installation and conceptual art.
Art Is Dead has a cross-disciplinary agenda offering very different viewpoints on the subject of death, collectively providing a multiplicity of meanings and a series of contradictory interpretations of each individual’s work.
If one of the greatest virtues of art is that it chronicles life, then we must also accept that it encapsulates death too. Death has been a consistent theme especially in painting, prevalent if not central throughout the history of art, at times used to motivate viewers to contemplate the brevity of their existence and secure a desirable place in the afterlife. Although maybe not capable of saving the viewer’s soul, the artworks presented in Art Is Dead contain different notions of mortality, all chosen in an attempt to inspire you to embrace life and to make the most of your short time on earth. From the personal and intimate, where subjects are immortalised in the painting by Nam Chau and the text work by Sarah Tripp, to the familiar but strange, seductive yet uncomfortable photographic works by Rebecca Loyche and Benjamin DeBurca where death becomes a by-product of the scenes depicted. Maurice Doherty presents a very traditional vanitas, with a pop-art twist, while Jürgen Grewe and David Sherry offer life-affirming artworks, a painting and a silkscreen with a dark-humoured sting. This same life-affirming outlook is taken one step further through a piece by Victoria Skogsberg, in which she presents documentation of ‘evidence’ of a supernatural presence, in more of an afterlife-affirming artwork.
Being both thought-provoking and playful, the intention of Art Is Dead is to cast some revitalising sunlight on the dark subject of mortality, in an attempt to inspire the viewer, to dream like they'll live forever and to live like they'll die today.
GALERIE DEADFLY is located at Niederbarnimstr 15, Friedrichshain, beside Intimes Kino, on the corner of Boxhagner Straße. The opening of Art Is Dead is from 6-9pm on Saturday 27th of November, when you can also join the artists at Paule’s Heavy Metal Bar on the lively Simon-Dach-Strasse for more cold refreshments after.
GALERIE DEADFLY welcomes you to Art Is Dead and hopes you will enjoy the show.
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