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Press Release
For Immediate Release
2 nd April 2013
Opera Gallery Singapore at ION Orchard presents “Young Blood”
From 17 th May 2013 to 2 nd June 2013
This May, Opera Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition featuring some of
the greatest up-and-coming talents of the art world today. Illustrating the
diversity and creativity within the field of contemporary art, Young Blood will
truly highlight some of the future pioneers of the art world with their
undisputed cutting-edge innovations.
The seven young artists chosen for this exhibition explore the many styles,
genres and mediums that are rife within contemporary art. Young Blood will
present how each artist takes a different approach to his craft and how even
within the same genre, each set themselves apart from the masses.
C215, Mac1, The London Police, Noah Wunsch, Emir Haveric, Flore Zoé
and Ali Alişir will be showcased side by side, for a visual melting pot of
artistic concepts. With artworks ranging from photography to graffiti, these
artists touch on the inner workings of humanity and the society that man has
created.
Portraying reality as they view it, these artists create the industrial habitats of
city dwellers, graffiti that was born on the streets of such environments,
reflexive compositions that capture the psychological and spiritual ponderings
of mankind. The creations of Young Blood will alter and redefine the artistic
language of its forefathers to ensure the progression for the future artistic
generations.
Join us this May to witness an inspirational and exciting display of
contemporary triumph in the art world from these rising talents
Note to Editor:
For more information or materials, please contact Irene Chee or Kayleigh
Roberts at Tel: +65 6735 2618 or by Email: spore@operagallery.com
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C215
Born in 1973 in Paris, France.
C215 is the moniker of Christian Guémy, a French street artist hailing from
Paris. In addition to his street work, C215 also produces commercial artwork
for galleries on wood and canvas. His elaborate stencils - if outside a gallery -
appear in the streets of various cities all over the globe, such as New Delhi,
London, Istanbul, Fez, Rome, Barcelona and Paris. Lighting up the urban
spaces they decorate, every stencil has a reason to exist in its specific, wellthought
of place and all his pieces are hand-cut and sprayed originals with a
mix of found objects.

MAC1
Born in 1973 in Brierley Hill, England.
Mac1 is a photorealistic graffiti artist who came out of Birmingham’s
innovative scene in the 1980s & 90s. He is a self-taught artist who deals
mainly with acrylics, oils and inks. He is inspired by pop/comic art as well as
iconic figures from the past and present. Mac1 has been painting for 19 years,
mainly with aerosol paint. In this time he has made a reputation for himself as
one of the finest photo realistic portrait painters in the world, using aerosol
paint, entirely freehand. Recently Mac1 has been using oils to great effect,
and has also been building a new body of street, canvas and sculpture based
futurism work.

Ali Alişir
Born in 1978 in Istanbul, Turkey.
His digital photography can be considered as an insightful exploration of
artistic and technological practices. In his Virtual Places series, his over- sized
photographs of famous buildings from around the world appear to be
extravagantly manipulated acts of architectural virtuosity. They show multiple
buildings (or composite buildings) repeated one atop the other into infinity.
Thus, the artworks appear bedazzling. The confusion of buildings relinquishes
all visible contact with architecture. The cityscape becomes a gray-toned
composite image of superimposed and overlapping depictions of electronic
circuits and close-ups of motherboards. Within, and behind all this, we barely
recognise the blurry urban details. There lies the strength of Ali Alişir’s
artworks.

EMIR HAVERIC
Born in 1973 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Emir Haveric moved to Germany when he was 18 years old. An eminent
authority - Haveric is one of the top five automotive photographers worldwide,
and is an expert at shooting and composing with a CGI. Originally interested
in fashion photography, everything changed when he worked as a trainee at a
large car photography studio, where he was drawn to the complexities of
shooting automobiles. His talents have landed him numerous awards which
include Gold at The One Show, Effie Awards, Art Directors Club and AOP
Photographers. He was also shortlisted at Cannes and was a finalist in the
2009 New York Photo Festival. The exhibition in Singapore will be Emir
Haveric’s first as he has yet to show his fine photography works anywhere..

FLORE ZOÉ
Born in 1975 in The Netherlands.
Her passion is to translate aspects of life, ideas and emotions, capturing them
with her camera. From a very early age she has been forming and staging
images, but only turned to it as a profession later on in life. Her studies in
Psychology as well as the inspiration acquired during an extended trip to the
Far East reignited this passion, today, her profession is her passion: the
creation of images that tell a story. A large part of her artwork entails not only
capturing emotions that speak to her; but they also convey how they transmit
her own perceptions in a semi-autobiographical fashion.

NOAH WUNSCH
Born in 1970 in Rendsburg, Germany.
He studied design with the well-known Hamburg based artist, Ursula
Unbehaun, and attended the University for Music and Art in Vienna, Austria.
As a photographer, he was a pupil of Christoph Rudt von Collenberg and
Wolfgang Klein. His energetic abstractions conjure calm and chaos
coherently, as explosions of colour evoke cosmic associations dance around
the canvas. His series Ciel d’Or stems from a deep routes spiritualism of the
artist. Noah Wunsch lives and travels between Paris, Hamburg, New York and
California.

THE LONDON POLICE
Born in the 1970s in England.
The London Police consists of Bob Gibson and Chaz. The duo started in 1998
when they began their paths by travelling to Amsterdam in an attempt to liven
up the streets. The artists display art in an illustrative and innovative
expression. While one’s skill lies in drawing circles freehand with no
compasses or guides, the other has developed his own imagery, an
architectural style of line drawing. Wanting to create a place full of interaction
between their circle and line drawing, their playful fantasy monochrome
cityscapes are filled with their iconic ‘Lad’ characters that are constructed and
move around freely, in turn helping to build further elements of the city.