REMED @ PURE EVIL GALLERY.
An exhibition of draws, canvas, wall, photos and videos by Remed.

Two weeks ago, i’ve been to London city in order to present my first solo show there @ Pure Evil Gallery.

I was quite excited to discover London by summer…i knew the vibe would be nice & warm, since in any cold city, when the light comes out, people just feel it stronger than anywhere else. I was not desapointed and spent so good time there with my man Charley and my brothers & sisters from there. (Big up to Rafffffaaa, Daphné & Gisela:)

I obviously presented some artpieces on paper and canva, and had the chance to paint the wall down the gallery. So that the expo would be more “complete”.

The name of this wall is ” STEPS “.

Tracing of the shapes for “STEPS”. Spray on wall. 600×350cm. 2010. Remed

This wall came out quite easyly. When i’ve seen the stairs of the gallery on the left of the wall, it made me think about one famous canva from Marcel DUCHAMPS named “Nu descendant l’escalier”. (Naked going down the stairs).

Nu descendant l’escalier. Marcel DUCHAMPS. 1912

So i thought about movement. And I started drawing quickly on a paper without thinking too much.

The wall came out to be a sum up of all the paintings i did lately, as if on this image, i put all the pieces (the latest period) of my life/art together.

The fear of loosing past, the acceptation of the end of a cycle, death, then rebirth of a newself, and the begining of a new cycle.

“STEPS”. Spray on wall. 600×350cm. 2010. Remed

On the left of the wall, up the stairs, there’s a door made of an inversed heart. Beside a man sits, looking back, but blinding his eyes with the right hand. The left hand his wedged in the door, in the past. Under his elbow, a drip. Next to this tear, a sand glass.

Then this same body becomes headless, haloes over his neck. His hands are holding his head up to the right.

The next step is his new self, faceless, kneeling in order to receive and give a new life to his cutted head.

Then he’s putting his head back on his shoulders, still staring right. The heart inverses hisself, and become positive.

“STEPS”. Detail.

Finaly, on the right of the wall, he welcomes a woman, embrassing her, she embrassing him..

Behind them, a door. Over it, day and night.

The loop.

This wall could be also read in the opposite direction. U can choose.

P E A C E

I guess it s the sentence that best explain this image.

“I & THE WHOLE”. Acrylic on canva. 80×100cm. 2010

So, as you’ve understood through the discover of my words/work, most of my art express duality of life, light and shadow…no good with the ignorance of the bad…gotta accept to be in a loop, to be a loop.

My words are blured but my paint is not…so you’d understand more staring at the canva than by reading me.

“DUALITY”. Acrylic on canva. 80×100cm. 2010

DUALITY (detail)

So here’s the quick sketches that leads to a serie of 3 canvas.

And here is the first canva of the serie :

“PROFILE WITH NEW POINT OF VIEW”.

Acrylic on canva. 56×70cm. 2010

Thanks to Pietro and Francesco (059 represent), i’ve been invited to Modena, in northern Italy, to have a solo exhibition.

Due to the volcano fog, i wasn’t able to come one week before the show, but only one day…so that was quite hard and tight to put up the show in time…The opening was on saturday at 7pm, and at 4pm the gallery was absolutly empty.

But we manage to do everything…would have liked to do more, a bigger painting inside but still i think people had chance to see a large “évantail” of my work.

Here’s a few more pictures…i’ve been painting a quick freestyle lettering outside, under a smooth rain, on the wall at the entrance of the gallery, and then a pixaçào influenced typo on the roof of an inside box.

More than the pieces made “in situ”, i’ve displayed 16 works original work on paper, 2 canvas (80×100cm) and 3 silkscreen.

I had good time during the opening and especially like to answered the question of some viewer which was : “is your art about meditation ?”…

I will publish some pictures of each art pieces in the next post.

Have a nice day, go out, it’s spring!

P e a c e

Then quite naturaly, came the ultimate step of the way to fullfilment. The climax of appeased desire. Shared pleasure.

Gouache on paper. 50×70cm. 2010