Cecilia Cubarle, Antonio de Felipe, Philippe Huart, MariaManuela and William Sweetlove all with different cultural backgrounds, have had several exhibitions together in Europe and in Asia.

With a brilliantly colourful pictorial language that include humour, warmth, contrast and irony they capture everyday life at the same time as they question it.

Welcome to the opening on Saturday, February 7th from 12.00-16.00
Preview on Friday, February 6th from 18.00-21.00

The exhibition is on from 7/2 to 5/4 200

Vasa Konsthall in collaboration with Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

 

Cecilia Cubarle is motivated by her love for life and the undeniable urge to paint. In her works she grafts influences from the world of advertising into art. Yet the way in which she handles the subsequent impressions with humour, tenderness and acuity tempers the impertinence of these paintings with gentleness.
 

Antonio de Felipe expresses nostalgia through his film icons from the Hollywood of the 60s and his classic advertising motifs in constellations that pay homage to great artists, including Velázquez, Picasso, Mondrian and others. Many of his works exhibit an ingenious ability to express powerful paradoxes.


Philippe Huart seeks to shed light on the effect that marketing and consumption have on our subconscious. His reflections on this theme are presented in the form of playful ambiguities and contradictions – placing Mickey Mouse in contrapuntal opposition to pistols, and candy beside capsules of medicine, yet leaving the interpretation entirely to the observer.
 

MariaManuela conducts a dialogue between classic Japanese woodcuts and today’s manga comic strip techniques, between kimonos and mini skirts. Her Pop Icons lend form to a femininity in which ancient oriental tradition stands in stark contrast to contemporary western culture.
 


William Sweetlove’s cloned dogs, giraffes and penguins are artefacts that unite dadaism, surrealism and Pop Art in a post-modern synthesis. An ardent believer in art’s capacity to exert a profound social influence, he uses strong elements of irony to evoke a reaction to the overproduction and overconsumption that characterise society today.


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