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Press Release<br />
For Immediate Release<br />
2 nd April 2013<br />
<strong>Opera</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> Singapore at ION Orchard presents “Young Blood”<br />
From 17 th May 2013 to 2 nd June 2013<br />
This May, <strong>Opera</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> is thrilled to present an exhibition featuring some of<br />
the greatest up-and-coming talents of the art world today. Illustrating the<br />
diversity and creativity within the field of contemporary art, Young Blood will<br />
truly highlight some of the future pioneers of the art world with their<br />
undisputed cutting-edge innovations.<br />
The seven young artists chosen for this exhibition explore the many styles,<br />
genres and mediums that are rife within contemporary art. Young Blood will<br />
present how each artist takes a different approach to his craft and how even<br />
within the same genre, each set themselves apart from the masses.<br />
C215, Mac1, The London Police, Noah Wunsch, Emir Haveric, Flore Zoé<br />
and Ali Alişir will be showcased side by side, for a visual melting pot of<br />
artistic concepts. With artworks ranging from photography to graffiti, these<br />
artists touch on the inner workings of humanity and the society that man has<br />
created.<br />
Portraying reality as they view it, these artists create the industrial habitats of<br />
city dwellers, graffiti that was born on the streets of such environments,<br />
reflexive compositions that capture the psychological and spiritual ponderings<br />
of mankind. The creations of Young Blood will alter and redefine the artistic<br />
language of its forefathers to ensure the progression for the future artistic<br />
generations.<br />
Join us this May to witness an inspirational and exciting display of<br />
contemporary triumph in the art world from these rising talents<br />
Note to Editor:<br />
For more information or materials, please contact Irene Chee or Kayleigh<br />
Roberts at Tel: +65 6735 2618 or by Email: spore@operagallery.com<br />
For more information on <strong>Opera</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> Singapore, Paris, New York, Bal<br />
Harbour, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Monaco, Geneva and Dubai, please<br />
visit www.operagallery.com
C215<br />
Born in 1973 in Paris, France.<br />
C215 is the moniker of Christian Guémy, a French street artist hailing from<br />
Paris. In addition to his street work, C215 also produces commercial artwork<br />
for galleries on wood and canvas. His elaborate stencils - if outside a gallery -<br />
appear in the streets of various cities all over the globe, such as New Delhi,<br />
London, Istanbul, Fez, Rome, Barcelona and Paris. Lighting up the urban<br />
spaces they decorate, every stencil has a reason to exist in its specific, wellthought<br />
of place and all his pieces are hand-cut and sprayed originals with a<br />
mix of found objects.
MAC1<br />
Born in 1973 in Brierley Hill, England.<br />
Mac1 is a photorealistic graffiti artist who came out of Birmingham’s<br />
innovative scene in the 1980s & 90s. He is a self-taught artist who deals<br />
mainly with acrylics, oils and inks. He is inspired by pop/comic art as well as<br />
iconic figures from the past and present. Mac1 has been painting for 19 years,<br />
mainly with aerosol paint. In this time he has made a reputation for himself as<br />
one of the finest photo realistic portrait painters in the world, using aerosol<br />
paint, entirely freehand. Recently Mac1 has been using oils to great effect,<br />
and has also been building a new body of street, canvas and sculpture based<br />
futurism work.
Ali Alişir<br />
Born in 1978 in Istanbul, Turkey.<br />
His digital photography can be considered as an insightful exploration of<br />
artistic and technological practices. In his Virtual Places series, his over- sized<br />
photographs of famous buildings from around the world appear to be<br />
extravagantly manipulated acts of architectural virtuosity. They show multiple<br />
buildings (or composite buildings) repeated one atop the other into infinity.<br />
Thus, the artworks appear bedazzling. The confusion of buildings relinquishes<br />
all visible contact with architecture. The cityscape becomes a gray-toned<br />
composite image of superimposed and overlapping depictions of electronic<br />
circuits and close-ups of motherboards. Within, and behind all this, we barely<br />
recognise the blurry urban details. There lies the strength of Ali Alişir’s<br />
artworks.
EMIR HAVERIC<br />
Born in 1973 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.<br />
Emir Haveric moved to Germany when he was 18 years old. An eminent<br />
authority - Haveric is one of the top five automotive photographers worldwide,<br />
and is an expert at shooting and composing with a CGI. Originally interested<br />
in fashion photography, everything changed when he worked as a trainee at a<br />
large car photography studio, where he was drawn to the complexities of<br />
shooting automobiles. His talents have landed him numerous awards which<br />
include Gold at The One Show, Effie Awards, Art Directors Club and AOP<br />
Photographers. He was also shortlisted at Cannes and was a finalist in the<br />
2009 New York Photo Festival. The exhibition in Singapore will be Emir<br />
Haveric’s first as he has yet to show his fine photography works anywhere..
FLORE ZOÉ<br />
Born in 1975 in The Netherlands.<br />
Her passion is to translate aspects of life, ideas and emotions, capturing them<br />
with her camera. From a very early age she has been forming and staging<br />
images, but only turned to it as a profession later on in life. Her studies in<br />
Psychology as well as the inspiration acquired during an extended trip to the<br />
Far East reignited this passion, today, her profession is her passion: the<br />
creation of images that tell a story. A large part of her artwork entails not only<br />
capturing emotions that speak to her; but they also convey how they transmit<br />
her own perceptions in a semi-autobiographical fashion.
NOAH WUNSCH<br />
Born in 1970 in Rendsburg, Germany.<br />
He studied design with the well-known Hamburg based artist, Ursula<br />
Unbehaun, and attended the University for Music and Art in Vienna, Austria.<br />
As a photographer, he was a pupil of Christoph Rudt von Collenberg and<br />
Wolfgang Klein. His energetic abstractions conjure calm and chaos<br />
coherently, as explosions of colour evoke cosmic associations dance around<br />
the canvas. His series Ciel d’Or stems from a deep routes spiritualism of the<br />
artist. Noah Wunsch lives and travels between Paris, Hamburg, New York and<br />
California.
THE LONDON POLICE<br />
Born in the 1970s in England.<br />
The London Police consists of Bob Gibson and Chaz. The duo started in 1998<br />
when they began their paths by travelling to Amsterdam in an attempt to liven<br />
up the streets. The artists display art in an illustrative and innovative<br />
ex<strong>press</strong>ion. While one’s skill lies in drawing circles freehand with no<br />
compasses or guides, the other has developed his own imagery, an<br />
architectural style of line drawing. Wanting to create a place full of interaction<br />
between their circle and line drawing, their playful fantasy monochrome<br />
cityscapes are filled with their iconic ‘Lad’ characters that are constructed and<br />
move around freely, in turn helping to build further elements of the city.