Limi-TATE

cueB Gallery is proud to present

Limi-TATE

Drawings by Thion
An exhibition curated by Franco la Russa
Private view: Friday 23rd August 7pm - 9pm

Limi-TATE is a collection of 50 drawings, black ink on Tate Gallery tickets by Thion. Each of the sized 10.8 cm x 7.7 cm.

Between 2001 and 2002 the artist Thion was working at the Tate Britain as a supervisor for the temporary exhibitions. During quiet times he started drawing on any piece of paper he could find. Eventually he noticed that lots of Tate tickets were going to waste, binned, thrown away for different reasons so he started recycling those tickets by using them as a support for his day dreaming.

With his unique pop imagery, this limited collection summarizes some of Thion's emotions and dreams of those two years. Love, anger, sex, desire, confusion, happiness and friendship but also dreams of running away, to be free, to party and to have a good time. Those drawings are often a picture of the night before or a plan for the nights or days ahead.

You go through change of season, days and nights as they describe a fragment of a story or a feeling of Thion's life at that time.
Those Tate tickets became Thion's personal illustrated diary. The exhibition will also include a site specific mural taking you even further into the artist's world.

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Thion is an italian artist living and working in London.
His artistic practice, initially shaped primarily by Pop Art concerns, such as popular culture, the mass media and graffiti-related signs and symbols, has developed beyond these narrow confines and now embraces a wider spectrum of influences, often going beyond the artistic realm. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of and skill in traditional image-making techniques but employing them in an absolutely contemporary context, his work makes the ordinary extraordinary, elevating everyday experience to a magical, mystical status.

For more information and images please contact Franco La Russa at [email protected]