"Weird And Wonderful" Exhibition

With the upmost pleasure, cueB gallery is delighted to present

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Works by National and International Artists
An exhibition curated by Franco La Russa

14th June - 14th July 2013
Private view: Friday 14th June 7pm - 9pm

An exhibition of outstanding art works by ten national and international exciting and
innovative artists. The exhibit will run from 14th June to 14th July 2013, at our gallery space in South East London.

These 10 artists each have unique and fresh ways of looking at the Weird and Wonderful "theme" of this exhibition. Translating their views onto photographs, paintings, sculptures, taxidermy and sound installation they will whisk you away into a world of the unknown. Each artist presents their chosen subjects with mystery and imagination, the results are beautiful, enticing, unusual, at times sinister and always unexpected.

For this exhibition, artist, curator and writer, Predrag Pajdic has handpicked two
photographs from his recent book "BENEATH THE SHADOWS THE SOUL WALKS"
Those images celebrates the loveliness in everyone, at all ages, gender, style, type and appearance. His photographs of humble ordinary people are a marvellous celebration of life’s splendour in a form as yet seen, and offers a new, more realistic standard and measure by which to judge those who please the eye.

Benjamin Phillips is an illustrator and artist based in London. In this project he has collaborated with ethical taxidermist and artist Jazmine Miles-Long. Their collaborative work constructs a world somewhere between that of our own and one of strange fantasy. The fragility encapsulated in her delicately preserved animals alongside his sinister undertones presents the viewer with work that is both enticing and awkward.

Italian composer Luca Nasciuti trained in electroacoustic composition, classical music, visual and performing arts. His practice evaluates notions of phenomenological reduction and symbolism in composition and sound art whereby the architecture of the work is defined by and built upon the cultural and imaginal information found in field
recordings.

Meret Probst is a product design artist, the objects of her current collection deal with expressive potential and visualize a discourse between the maker and the process of making - a discourse about the aesthetics of body and form and their role in forming identity. The collection searches for expression beyond conventional categories. Through the absence of obvious function and because of the ambivalence of their
appearance, the objects find completion, their meaning and content, only through the reaction of the individual viewer.

Gabriel Andreu's work combines the roles of artist, director, actor and author; he uses media such as photography, video and performance. In his work Masc[ulinity] (2010) Gabriel deals with the pressures of being male. Since women started fighting for their rights, the pressures of being a woman have been an important subject both inside and outside the art world, but he feels the pressures experienced by men have not been dealt with in the same way.

In contrast, Taiwanese painter Annie Lin explores the representation of femininity in her big scale paintings. Her palette of bright confectionery colours alludes to a
perceived superficial gloss disguising darker themes. These surfaces give tactile
expression to feelings not only of exposure and vulnerability but also of excitement and arousal.

The distinctions between the familiar and the unfamiliar is the main focus of sculptor Simon Shepherd. He looks for and develops the beauty and aesthetic of the
everyday object and invites the viewer to reassess their expectations and preconceptions of it.

Andy Reeve's recent work involves cutting shapes into the paintings of others.
All shapes have some relevance to his own life and leads the artist and the viewer to question the absurdity of his actions.

Barbara Nati's work faces social and environmental issues with a tainted stylistic
approach where history, visual art and advertising mix into a new formula where art
fulfils its goal becoming a playful tool, speaking in a versatile and universal alphabet.
Every setting invites the viewer to look again at those things we take for granted whilst challenging the naïve trust that we have in what we consider to be real, but may be not.

Prepare to be amazed, enthralled and inspired.
An exhibition for the curious, for the open minded and for the brave.

For more info and images please contact Franco La Russa at info @cuebgallery.com