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14/2/2007

Two exhibitions

Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

DeAnna Maganias + Jonathan Delachaux

DeAnna Maganias, who lives and works in Athens and New York, presents a collection of sculpture, painting and video in her first U.S solo exhibition, "The View From Bed". Strongly influenced by architecture and minimalist form, Maganias explores the more disconcerting and alienating aspects of urban reality through a voyeuristic filter. The industrial form and mechanized precision implicit in her work, however, upon closer inspection is found to be meticulously and obsessively executed by hand. Maganias has shown with Rebecca Camhi, Athens; Marco, Rome; MARTa Herford, Germany; in the Prague Biennale 2005, and the Istanbul Biennial 2003, amongst others.

Jonathan Delachaux, a painter who has been awarded the Swiss Award for Young Artists twice, bleeds the boundaries between art and life by introducing us to Vassili Lavandier, Johan Wacquez and Naïma Bourquin: three puppets whose daily lives and experiences provide the plot lines for his own artistic productions. From trips to New York, Berlin, Japan and India to their band, which provides Delachaux's exhibitions with unique sound tracks, these individuals hold lives separate from their inventor's, which occasionally come together for natural reasons of professionalism and friendship. Part performance, part materiality, Delachaux's tromp l'oeil representations of his companions beg the question of wherein his work lies.

Reception: Thursday, February 15, 6 - 8:30pm

Thomas Erben Gallery
526 W 26th Street, floor 4 - New York

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