FRAGILE

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Intro

  Perhaps I am a romantic, but it is my hope that in the future
  Humanity will live by the truth, with greater harmony between
  different people, their religions and cultures, and to life in
  all its complex beauty.

Monday, 12 September 2011

FRAGILE group exhibition at Hackney WickED Arts Festival 2011

------------------------ SURPRISE GUESTS ----------------------------------

Ting-an Lin

Gunther Jancke

+ Secret Guest

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FRAGILE Pop Up Arts Gallery

at the Secret Market, London E3 2PA

A weekend gallery show celebrating the exciting arts of installation, music, painting, performance, puppetry, photography, and the good will of human nature.

FRAGILE is an exclusive event at the Secret Market that will bring together artists of different national and conceptual backgrounds to raise an awareness of humanity and fragile human existence..

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Exhibition organised and curated by Ivonne Replica (Yvonne Riepl)

ivonne.replica@gmail.com
lamaisondefay@gmail.com

www.lamaisondefay.com
www.girlandmachine.co.uk

Ioanna Manoussaki & Erato Tzavara

Selected works from the Series : Access Granted

"Access Granted" is a series of photographs that emerged from a collaborative media project undertaken by Ioanna Manoussaki and Erato Tzavara in April 2011. The two London-based artists visited Senegal in the context of volunteering for the local charity NGO 10.000 girls, which supports young women in accessing education, developing entrepreneurial activities and promoting environmental awareness. During their sojourn, they captured social spaces and casual encounters with the sensitivity created in each moment, based on the people's impartial desire for the lens and the mutual curiosity for interaction and contact. The photographs emit the different levels of intimacy developed between the artist, the subject and exchange of gazes. The residues of these brief triangle encounters are images rich in texture, colour and emotion.

B-prints (23.4 x 16.5 in)

Tivaone Couture

Man in blue shirt

Men with glasses

Girl market seller, Koungheul

M'bour fish market

Family game

Talibe house

Toucouleur woman, Koungheul

M'bour fish market

Photographer in his studio, Koungheul

C-prints (8.3 x 5.8 in)

Sophie in photographer's studio

Portrait of a Carpenter

Untitled, #5022

Portrait of a young man

Goat, Koungheul

Koungheul market

Untitled, #4731

Portrait of a girl, Mboro sur Mer

Le petit Senegal (#5217)

Untitled, #5361

Untitled, #5473

Untitled, #5475

Yvonne Riepl & Jonathan Trayner

Stop Trying To Seduce Us With Your Visions Of The Past
Excerpt of 16mm short film by Jon Trayner & Yvonne Riepl 2010 www.trayner.org/16_mm_preview.html

"You have to fly a flag, otherwise you have nothing to wave."

The flags are a shortcut ,

they are symbols representing certain aspects

of the Enlightenment project.

Carole Soulas

Carole Soulas is a french painter. After 10 years practicing painting in an associative studio, she studied interior & graphic designs at Montpellier university.
She exhibited in several venues with other artists and by herself and moved to London in 2008.
Among her sources of inspiration are graphic novels of all kind and early 20th century art movements, such as Impressionism & Les fauves.

What strike first in the paintings are the vibrating colors that don't follow the rules of natural hues but only work together following the harmony of lines.
It's sometimes close to the art group called Les Fauves that's characterized by brilliant and clashing colors. If a skin tone needs to be green to fit with the general composition, so be it!
The main theme is portraits of close friends and family, where the look holds the whole painting.

The cartoons focus on her environment, studying people's relationships or even spying on them when they're not looking!
It gives an insight of what it's like to be a foreigner in one of the most multicultural cities of our times.