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13/2/2015

Two Exhibitions

Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin

Umberto Chiodi: Crossage

Whatever is prepared industrially or practical directly confronts the skills, the present and the limits of man and that is what interests me."

In his series CROSSAGE, the Italian artist Umberto Chiodi blurs the line between art and craft. He mixes collages, inlays, carvings and photos into an energetic visual lexicon. special emphasis is placed on his user self manufactured marble paper whose surface hides fascinating, diverse structures. Textures drawn with ink relate to modern traffic signs, but also to the ornaments in old fashioned wallpaper. With his series of works, Chiodi wants to contain the ongoing flood of images that we are exposed to in today's world. In artistic creation and thought, Chiodi does not claim reality, he works with the idea of visual information to be rich in cultural backgrounds and to make it visible. Finds from photos, magazine clippings and various papers turn to poetry of everyday life. As a result, enchanting images are created that seduce us and make us believe, at least for the moment, that the world has a wonderful face.

Umberto Chiodi was born in 1981 in Bentivoglio / Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He lives and works in Milan.

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Benedicte Peyrat: Mauvais genre

The paintings and pottery by French artist Bénédicte Peyrat defy common temporal classification attempts. The painting style is lush, in broad brushstrokes, with powerful colors - and in many of her paintings in old-fashioned-looking grisaille shades. Often naked image staff with baroque corpulence and peasantlly, sometimes bawdy facial features romps in allegorical backgrounds in also unlocatable, lush landscapes. In a large series of works a gathering of unknown character heads is created in classic portrait style, however in the manner of old masters and simultaneously amusing with an ironic smile in the features of many the sitters.

In her large size canvasses, together with the wild lush nakedness, various sorts of animals with human body language join the muddle. By also mixing mundane and contemporary, technical objects into her groups of personnel and animals instead of landscape elements, the artist reinforces the sense of out-of-timeness, when familiar scenes assemble in contrary manners and styles and eras intersect.

Bénédicte Peyrat was born in Paris in 1967 and studied at the Académie de Port Royal with Claude Schurr, Jean-Maxime Relange and Jean Marzelle. She lives and works in Karlsruhe. Her works have won many awards, including the Prix de la Oulmont Fondation de France and most recently in 2007 the price of Trustees of the Mannheimer Kunstverein.

Image: Umberto Chiodi, Crossage XXXVII, 2014, mixed media on paper, 100 x 70 cm

Opening: 14 February 2015

Galerie Michael Schultz GmbH & Co. KG
Mommsenstraße 34

10629 Berlin


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