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Mirus Gallery Group Exhibits "Aletheia" and "Aporias" , by Mirus Gallery on Apr 23, 2019 20:06:37 GMT 1,
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"I asked of everything / if it had / something more, / something more than shape and form, / and I learned that way that nothing is empty -- / everything is a box, a train, a boat / loaded with implications, / every foot that walked along a path / left a telegram written in the stone, / and clothes in the washing water / dripped out their whole existence." (Pablo Neruda)
About the Exhibition:
Mirus Gallery has invited several artists to participate in โAletheiaโ a group exhibition titled after โa Greek word variously translated as "unclosedness", "unconcealedness", "disclosure" or "truth". The literal meaning of the word "Aletheia" is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident." It also means factuality or reality." When confronted with the roster of exhibiting artists you can relate the level of realism in each of their work. Yet you will have to dig deeper when viewing and establish an understanding of this new unconcealedness.
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Mirus Gallery Group Exhibits "Aletheia" and "Aporias" , by Mirus Gallery on Apr 23, 2019 20:14:08 GMT 1,
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โThe aporia of art, pulled between regression to literal magic or surrender of the mimetic impulse to thing like rationality, dictates its law of motion; the aporia cannot be eliminated. The depth of the process, which every artwork is, is excavated by the irreconcilability of these elements; it must be imported into the idea of art as an image of reconciliation.โ
Theodor W. Adorno, Esthetic Theory(3)
One of the popular definitions of Aporia is โan expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effectโ. Yet there is much more to this word and its use as a tool to penetrate further for truth through a paradoxical questioning and deconstructing of a subject. Mirus Gallery San Francisco presents โAporiasโ a group exhibition of international artists whose work revolves around the absence of narrative or a representational subject. At quick glance one might call the work abstract, yet I prefer to acknowledge the fact that these emerging artists work is detached from a historical sense or the term abstract painter. By leaving representational elements out of their work it has now become a form of representational abstraction. This new found paradox is where I have focused the lens to view this group of emerging artists. By removing something and creating a void, a new something is gained. โAporiasโ reflects a new look at emerging artists working within this new post-historical subject of ambiguity, that ask more questions than they answer, and as the title suggests are a โa useful expression of doubtโ. It is this raising of doubt through painting that each artist exhibiting represents through their work.
Featured Artists: Anatoly Akue (Russia), Christian Calabro (United States), Julia Benz (Germany), Quintessenz (Germany), and Seleka (Spain)
Inquiries email info@mirusgallery.com for PDF โThe aporia of art, pulled between regression to literal magic or surrender of the mimetic impulse to thing like rationality, dictates its law of motion; the aporia cannot be eliminated. The depth of the process, which every artwork is, is excavated by the irreconcilability of these elements; it must be imported into the idea of art as an image of reconciliation.โ Theodor W. Adorno, Esthetic Theory(3) One of the popular definitions of Aporia is โan expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effectโ. Yet there is much more to this word and its use as a tool to penetrate further for truth through a paradoxical questioning and deconstructing of a subject. Mirus Gallery San Francisco presents โAporiasโ a group exhibition of international artists whose work revolves around the absence of narrative or a representational subject. At quick glance one might call the work abstract, yet I prefer to acknowledge the fact that these emerging artists work is detached from a historical sense or the term abstract painter. By leaving representational elements out of their work it has now become a form of representational abstraction. This new found paradox is where I have focused the lens to view this group of emerging artists. By removing something and creating a void, a new something is gained. โAporiasโ reflects a new look at emerging artists working within this new post-historical subject of ambiguity, that ask more questions than they answer, and as the title suggests are a โa useful expression of doubtโ. It is this raising of doubt through painting that each artist exhibiting represents through their work. Featured Artists: Anatoly Akue (Russia), Christian Calabro (United States), Julia Benz (Germany), Quintessenz (Germany), and Seleka (Spain)
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