Practically Sublime
dal 7/9/2005 al 8/10/2005
Segnalato da
7/9/2005
Practically Sublime
Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
New works by Takeshi Masada and Robert Platt. This exhibition re-investigates the traditional themes surrounding the concept of the sublime by deconstructing images of beauty, cultural phenomena, fantastic natural scenes, and the occult.
New works by Takeshi Masada & Robert Platt
presented by Els Hanappe Underground
Practically sublime is thus every subject matter that gives us admittedly to mark
our impotence as beings of nature – but at the same time reveals in us a capability
for resistance of an entirely different kind ... (Friedrich Schiller, 1793).
This exhibition brings together for the second time the paintings of Japanese artist
Takeshi Masada and UK/Japan based artist Robert Platt.
Both artists have done extensive study in the area of painting, providing an opening
for the gallery to discuss its recent trends and face the hype.
Practically Sublime re—investigates the traditional themes surrounding the concept
of the sublime by deconstructing images of beauty, cultural phenomena, fantastic
natural scenes, and the occult.
Robert Platt expresses contemporary landscape, focussing on its current meaning as
an artificial or cultivated vista, in which nature plays a subdued role. Other
contrasts are played out as in the references to 'domesticated wild animals', or in
the appropriation through technological means of naive folk images.
Takeshi Masada is more interested in capturing motion into a single frame,
instilling narration within the materiality of the paint, encouraging understanding
through intuition. He uses everyday subjects as can be seen in the news, to question
art’s position and its enduring quality within a world of increasingly fleeting
information and images.
Els Hanappe Underground
Melanthiou 2 – GR 10554 Athens
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