5/7/2013
Blo
Open Walls Gallery, Berlin
La petite mort. This show has all the destructive elements of his youth - yet now he attacks his symbolic ancestors, from the Virgin Mary and Child to the Bleeding Heart.
La petite mort
Open Walls Gallery cordially invites you to BLO’s upcoming solo show, opening on July 6th from 20:00 onwards, in Stattbad Berlin. The artist will be present at the vernissage.
La petite mort examines euphoric isolation of the artist, steeped in BLO’s past movements throughout the public sphere, from 1998 in the French Graffiti scene. This show has all the destructive elements of his youth - yet now he attacks his symbolic ancestors, from the Virgin Mary and Child to the Bleeding Heart.
BLO (DMV) works with many juxtapositions in his dream-like images of damage. Negating the iconic pin-up of the graffiti scene, he labours intensively over androgynous women with mechanical limbs and lead pipe bones. The sculptural curves of the paintings mirror the heavy reflex of gesture seen in the other monochrome illustrations, that are ripped from their static respite to play on a series of wooden panels and stretched cotton throughout the show.
Artist's Website: http://blo-paintings.com
Vernissage: Saturday July 6th from 20:00 onwards
OPEN WALLS Gallery
c/o Stattbad Berlin Gerichtstr. 65, 13347 Berlin
Admission: €5 | Free for Gallery members & clients