The Art Design Project Gallery is pleased to announce our new virtual exhibition “IN/WITHIN”, which includes a curated selection of limited edition artworks by the exceptional artists Rodrigo Etem and Mikael Kenta, represented by our gallery. N/WITHIN, aims to captivate the viewer and highlight the true Passion of these artists.
All the faults of the world Series
In recent years -through the use, production, and appropriation of content hosted on the net. The artist has been developing a body of work that aims to resignify narratives from the files.The series "All the faults of the world", 2021/23 are digital prints printed on Hahnemuhle smooth canvas. The Images are taken by Google Street View (GSV) users that cover a 360º viewing angle and are captured to show everything that is around the subject taking the photograph. These images, uploaded to the application (GSV) are geolocated at the precise point where they were taken so that other users can access them. Due to involuntary human errors in the capture, a small percentage of these images present anomalies because some fragment does not have a record, and a void is produced in the image and an opaque figure without representation. The entry of these anomalies into the system interferes with any attempt to fully represent the world.
Ser Cosa Series
This series of portraits that at first glance appear to us as extraterrestrial beings, once we understand the images they become more familiar than they appear, “humans too human” perhaps more human than they appear. And for Adorno's negative dialectic, the problem was given as a human being in a world hostile to humans, the characters of Etem seem so natural to us to the extent that their presence is outside the pose of the portraits of the kings of the past, rather resemble the workers, peasants, common people in general, portrayed by Gustave Courbet or the realists of the mid-19th century, these new realists are captured by the camera in the usual development of their daily lives, in the hostile world of the desert or the swamp or the storm…”
The Materia Series
Mikael Kenta, a fashion and art photographer, is inspired by his deep knowledge of fine art printing and his pursuit of high-quality productions. His work fuses art and profession, reflecting a sophisticated control over his artistic results.
The Iconic Series
The “Iconic” series was presented as part of the exhibition “Walk of Inspiration” shown in Stockholm in 2016. These vibrant unique color images are an homage to the “kitsch pop surrealism".
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