Exibit: Seductive Mechanizm at Pixel Ink Gallery

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19.05.11

Seductive Mechanizm at Pixel Ink Gallery

Pixel Ink Gallery presents SEDUCTIVE MECHANIZM a body of new stencil works by KIRAN-X opening on Wednesday the 1st of June.

“I’m interested in how people are used in the construction of advertising imagery, models are dieted, composed, photo manipulated and hyper sensualised to endorse products of want, from desire,” says KIRAN-X.

“What fascinates me is not the product but the process in which the imagery is engineered and how models are robotically mechanized,” he adds.

The exhibition is themed around a reverse engineered collection of advertising imagery pulled apart and reassembled to illustrate a series of new works that focus on the visual mechanical elements of desire.

“Ironically the ‘Dr Frankenstein’ process of stenciling has graphically transformed the models into androids who are now liberated from a product, or perhaps becoming the product,” says KIRAN-X.

These android characters resonate the artist's own metaphor of an industrial hazard aesthetic where desire and danger are forged together.

KIRAN-X said that the exhibition is inspired by Bjork music videos and Japanese Anime for their exploration of instinctive human impulses through computerization.

Pixel Ink Gallery director, Rosalind Clark said the aerosol stencil works in this exhibition illustrate an expressive correlation between the way the source material has been broken down and stylized to become part of the aesthetic.

“The works hold their strength in physical form with hints of grit and rawness which adds to the artist's intention of exposing a manipulated process,” says Clark.

SEDUCTIVE MECHANIZM runs from the 1st of June – 26th June at Pixel Ink Gallery, 219 Cuba Street, Wellington.

Exhibition details:

SEDUCTIVE MECHANIZM
KIRAN-X
Pixel Ink Gallery, 219 Cuba Street, Wellington 6011

Exhibition runs from 1 June – 26 June 2011

Opening preview: Wednesday 1 June 5:30 – 7.30pm

Admission FREE

Gallery opening hours:
Mon – Sat: 11.00am – 5.00pm
Sun: 11am – 4.00pm

For more information visit www.pixelink.co.nz or email gallery[at]pixelink.co.nz.

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