MEXICO CITY: ANDRÉ SARAIVA - OCTOBER 11, 2012 / NYC: JUDIT REIGL - OCTOBER 13, 2012

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SOLO PROJECT

October 11 - November 10, 2012

Opening reception: October 11, 8-11 PM

MEXICO CITY:
173 Zacatecas
Col. Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc
Ciudad de México, Mexico 06700
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“Graffiti is not vandalism but a beautiful crime”

Monsieur A is known by his distinctive figures – long lined characters with disturbing yet charismatic smiles. This Atelier de Production et de Création, develops precise execution in his deceptively naive contours or childish lines that depict more than we see.

Andre’s recognizable geography, cursive and dynamic hand style transforms his life into an oeuvre that carries his aesthetic values and fuses with his own stylistic criteria in a perfect constellation of art and fashion. Within the variable contexts, André oversize’s graffiti production to personalize spaces while constructing landscapes of identity and recognition. André could be described in Baudillard’s words “ingenious publicity in which each person becomes the impresario of his own existence”.

André Saraiva, has expanded the definition of art as itself, while re-defining “what an artist can do” – his new extended worlds manifest in production, process and exhibition. With this playful manifestation, André will take over the newly renovated project space of Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City. The space will surround the artist with his works on paper while this cross-cultural phenomena paints live in front of a viewing audience on the night of

October 11th.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

André Saraiva, also known as Monsieur André or Monsieur A, is a French graffiti artist. Born as son of Portuguese parents in Uppsala, Sweden, he has been living in Paris since his childhood. Saraiva started doing graffiti in 1985, quickly acquiring notoriety in the late 90s with Mr. A, a cartoonish character with a top hat, big smile, long legs, and a cross and circle for his eyes that could be found all over the streets of Paris. A famous member of the early Parisian graffiti scene alongside Invader and Zevs, he also made an appearance in Banksy's street art movie ‘Exit through the Giftshop’. Thanks to his distinctive poetic and joyful style and his use of pink colour, he became instantly recognizable – for example in his Love Graffiti series, which he created in the year 2000 – and expanded into various techniques such as wall paintings and sculpture from there. Even installations now count to his repertoire as seen in ‘Art in the Streets’, recently on display at the MOCA in Los Angeles that was curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Aaron Rose.

For further information, images or a preview of available artworks, please contact info@anonymousgallery.com

INVITACION ADJUNTA EN ESPAÑOL

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JUDIT REIGL

SOLO EXHIBITION

Opening reception: October 13, 2-10PM

NEW YORK CITY:
4 E. 3rd Street / Bowery and 3rd st.

(below the bowery hotel)
New York, NY 10021

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Peter Makebish is pleased to present a special one day exhibition of “Judit Reigl: Ink on Paper,” in association with the Janos Gat Gallery. The nine works on view are from the artist’s most recent untitled (2010) series.

Considered one of the most original figures of post-World War II art, Reigl is noted for discarding boundaries and rules once deemed absolute. Reigl defies traditional and often antagonistic dichotomies as she obliterates the distinction between the front and back of the canvas, utilizing both sides of the work and alternates between figurative and non-objective. Born in 1923, Judit Reigl escaped from her native Hungary in March 1950 and spent three months crossing Europe before settling in Paris. Breton presented her first solo exhibition at Galerie al’Étoile Scellée in November 1954. Although Reigl left the Surrealist group after the exhibition, she never abandoned automatic writing, the engagement of “mental automatism complemented by corporeal movement.”

In her method of “total automatic writing,” Reigl expanded the surrealist notions of “psychic automatism,” turning the process of painting into physical activity and eliminating the division between work and self. “The body is both the most perfect instrument and the most tragic obstacle,” Reigl said. “Ultimately, I strive for what is constantly on my mind, the potential continuity of the signs of existence in the essence of each new work, through inspiration and deed… reconfigured and bursting to sudden and unexpected life, far from the source, to be adopted, temporarily, by others. Continuity brings us, in the here and now, to the great beyond.”

While chronologically parallel to the Abstract Expressionist movement in the U.S. and continuing today, Reigl’s is a genuine artistic revolution employing intense gestural abstraction that is both poetic and Surrealist in tone. Besides the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reigl’s works are held by Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. This exhibition overlaps with a small- scale survey presently at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

For further information, images or a preview of available artworks, please contact info@anonymousgallery.com

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