SELF-PORTRAITS
BY CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARTISTS FROM 4 CONTINENTS
D-FACE / ANTON UNAI / JR / JAYBO AKA MONK / JEFF SOTO / JUDITH SUPINE / XOOOOX / KILLPIXIE / DTAGNO / CHARLIE ISOE / :PHUNK / STEFAN HIRSIG / AARON ROSE / MAROK / DALE GRIMSHAW / OSKAR / BEST EVER / NOMAD / WORD TO MOTHER / MYMO / STEFAN STRUMBEL / SOPHIE REINHOLD / RUTGER TERMOHLEN
The idea of this exhibition is to approach the historical theme of self-portraits and to bring it into a contemporary art context. A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. In this respect it will be an interesting and new experience to show the vision of the "self-portrait" by contemporary urban artists from all over the world. (curated by Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer)
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OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 5TH, 7-10 PM / OPEN UNTIL JULY 4TH 2009 / TUE-SAT 2-6 PM
CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY / GIPSSTRASSE 11 / BERLIN MITTE / GERMANY
