ANGELO PLESSAS - BRUSSELS

Think.21 is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Greek-Italian artist Angelo Plessas. “Symmetry of Chaos” features work that range from interactive website projections to neon sculptures and photographic installations.

Date :	12 septembre 2009
Heure :	12:00 - 20:00
Lieu :	think.21 gallery Brussels
Adresse :	21 rue du Mail
Ville :	Brussels, Belgium
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Téléphone :	3225378103
Courriel :	info@bigboxart.com

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VOLTA5 - BASEL

For Volta Basel 2009, think.21would like to propose an exhibition that invites the viewer to put his sensorial abilities into full alert. Just like illusionists, who cultivate the art of misleading one’s senses and succeed into capturing the marvelled attention of their spectators with tricks and “magic”, Stephan Balleux, Arnaud Gerniers and Lincoln Schatz create work that fascinates by its ability to lead the viewer into unexpected visual experiences. Touching upon various subjects in their respective artistic research, their work doesn’t fail to surprise and captivate one’s attention.

Heure de début :	9 juin 2009 à 12:00
Heure de fin :	13 juin 2009 à 20:00
Lieu :	Markthalle
Adresse :	Viaduktstrasse 10
Ville :	Basel, Switzerland
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Téléphone :	025378103
Courriel :	info@think21gallery.com

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CHAPTER 8 - BRUXELLES

Chapter 8 - If you don't buy it from us... it's not our problem!

“If You Don’t Buy It from Us It’s Not Our Problem”, is an exhibition inspired by the bottomless hunger of the consumer machine. In his first solo exhibition at think.21, American artist Michael Salter will take over the gallery space with an installation combining a large scale robot, a singing banana, and a 23 m. fluorescent yellow wall covered with poignant, absurd and baffling drawings.

Michael Salter considers himself an obsessive observer of contemporary visual culture, where graphics and corporate identities, signage and symbols are used to communicate the culture of commerce. These images wield tremendous power in the visual landscape we occupy. Salter is fascinated, disgusted and hypnotised by this influx of images. As media seeks to deliver its consumer message in an infinite number of exposure points, Salter questions this motivation and stands critical of a visual culture driven primarily by commerce.

Through observation, cataloguing, reinterpretation and re-contextualisation, Salter processes his response to the visual landscape of corporate branding, logos, and taglines. His work is realised in series of digitally drawn icons, slogans and 3 dimensional signage filled with illogic, cynicism, absurdity and humor. His icons capture the authoritative nature of visual branding and subvert its power. Far from being a simple parody, his work intends to incite investigation and nurture responses of new narratives.

Salter’s explores issues of consumerism in various ways. He creates robots of various shapes and sizes, called Styrobots, which are made of polystyrene packing pieces puzzled together. His Styrobots are informed by Minimalism, Sci-Fi, Duchamp, toys and character design. Salter uses the polystyrene found in computer, toys or electrical appliances boxes. The combination of the various pieces results in huge installations or miniature sculptures thus creating a playful and unsettling experience while commenting on waste, the re-use of discarded material, and our uneasy relationship technology. The object itself can appear intriguing and beautiful.
At first it appears to be a friendly machine, yet after close inspection it nevertheless reveals a much alarming reality. The polystyrene robot becomes a fearsome symbol of human consuming folly that is set to destroy mankind.

Date :	28 mai 2009
Heure :	18:00 - 21:00
Lieu :	think.21 gallery Brussels
Adresse :	21 rue du Mail
Ville :	Brussels, Belgium
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Téléphone :	025378103
Courriel :	info@think21gallery.com

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GRAHAM DAY GUERRA - BRUXELLES

Think.21 is pleased to present the work of American artist Graham Day Guerra.

In his latest series, Alpha and Omega, the artist represents an amalgamation of two ideologically and aesthetically opposed subjects. He combines today’s symbols of secular culture with the spiritual ideals and imagery of a previous more pious century.

Multi limbed figures, with superbly toned and athletic bodies, hover above sports stadia. They rise into the air - an ascesion- their forms picked out by banks of flood lighting and observed by an implied crowd in unseen grandstands.

The work abounds with historical reference. Saluting hands allude to David’s Oath of the Horatii and the overall compostions draw on various paintings of the Ascension, and specifically the ecstatic depictions of Mary in paintings such as the rapturous Assumption of the Virgin by Poussin and Tiepolo and Raphael’s last masterpiece, The Transfiguration.

Aside from its obvious reference to Catholicism the drawings also refer to human intelligence and corporeality as the beginning and end of creation. Kuzweil’s precept that the legacy of human intelligence will shape the destiny of the universe is for Guerra the philosophical point of departure for his contemporary and profane creation fantasy. This idea is concisely portrayed in the drawing Entropic Skulls, a piece depicting two human skulls locked in a Mobius strip of self-reflection, which serves as a kind of seed or egg that gives birth to the rest of the forms in the series.

Though intentionaly resembling theistic and devotional imagery, Guerra’s charcoal and graphite drawings are also impious celebrations of a material and human centered universe.

Date :	vendredi 24 avril 2009
Heure :	18:30 - 21:00
Lieu :	think.21 gallery Brussels
Adresse :	21 rue du Mail
Ville :	Brussels, Belgium
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Téléphone :	025378103
Adresse électronique :	info@think21gallery.com

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