Pink-Me-UPS!
From Monday 25nd June till Monday 7th September 2015, Michaela L. Vergottis will bring together three different international artists Misha Milovanovich, Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Woozy at Old Brompton Gallery, originally founded by Michaela L. Vergottis in an exhibition dominated by pink and vibrant happy colours. The exhibition will reflect the three artists’ desire to uplift spirits through their collective freedom of expression.
Misha’s work anticipates dichotomized reactions; the blatant popiconography, examines a sphere of objectification, questions the boundaries between the traditional, sentimental, cultural appreciation and the sycophantic, ironic mock-appreciation. The exhibition includes paintings that have a strong visual coherence. In Misha’s ‘Chewing Gum’ acrylic on canvas series, the viewer is invited to identify a classic motif of surrealism re-worked in a cheekily handmade pop style consisting of a sculptural rendering of neon-hued gum floating above a complementary colour field.
Vasmoulakis’ work also adopts pop elements but with expressionistic hues; ‘The Dancers’, (oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 90 cm), is a characteristic example of these elements, with its focus remaining distance and detached from priori interpretations, in order to reflect on the nature of the gaze that unfold a continual scenario of intertwined power of relations.
Vasmoulakis’ work also adopts pop elements but with expressionistic hues; ‘The Dancers’, (oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 90 cm), is a characteristic example of these elements, with its focus remaining distance and detached from priori interpretations, in order to reflect on the nature of the gaze that unfold a continual scenario of intertwined power of relations.
‘Pink – Me – Ups!’ is inspired by these three artists’ shared love and passion for texture, light and colours, which playfully invite the audience to effortlessly uplift their mood and create a happy longlasting memory.
Illustrated work:
"Untitled" (Chewing Gum 12)
2014
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 35.5 cm.
Press article:www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2015/07/08/pink-me-ups/
Press article: Kensington and Chelsea magazine, August 2015:
About
Misha Milovanovich
Misha Milovanovich is a Belgrade-born artist living and working in London. Misha works across all media, from sculpture to painting and live art. A cultural polymath, Misha is constantly engaged in observing human nature and it’s distortions of desire and lust, filtered with our insincerely extroverted, post-crash neuroses.
She draws upon contemporary pop culture, and seeks an objective view of emotions, executing her work with the rigorousness of a scientist. With Misha, surfaces are analysed and the underlying spiritual unease revealed. Distinguished by the exuberance of her mark-making, her work is expressionistic, minimalistic, and surreal in her use of hyper-specific detailing. Traditional techniques have been studied and absorbed, and although her work is conceptual, its execution always relies on these hard-won technical abilities.
Misha's main subject matter is that of human emotions, so naturally her work is highly personal and biographical. Her artistic progenitors include her mentor Martin Kippenberger, Roy Lichteinstein and Phillip Guston, as well as contemporary artists such as Gilbert and George, Keith Tyson, Robert Pruitt and Jim Lambie.
Visit the artist webpage at www.mishamilovanovich.com
Alexandros Vasmoulakis
Alexandros Vasmoulakis, born in 1980, lives in Athens and London, where he works as a freelancer. The core of his work is based on outdoor murals/large wallpapers, installations and studio work where he mainly paints. He studies fine art and has established a unique style of his own that is prevalent throughout his work. He is known mainly for his ‘street art’ in Athens and has produced many works on doors, telephone boxes and many high-rise buildings. His work is very character-based and explores the core values of human nature. He uses mixed media including collage, paint photography and digital photography to convey relationships between these emotions.
Visit the artist webpage at www.vasmou.com
Woozy
Woozy was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece and currently lives and works there. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Art in 2004, and later in 2008 at the Lisbon School of Fine Art, Portugal.
When he’s not travelling around the world creating art in the street, Woozy co-publishes the semi-annual art journal Carpe Diem as well as organizes educational workshops on the importance of creating art. He has been included in numerous publications and been involved in international festivals such as Chromopolis, part of the Cultural Olympiad for Olympic Games of 2004, European Culture Pays, a Manchester-based graffiti festival, and the national graffiti festival, Kosmopolite, in Paris.
Since 2002, Woozy has widely exhibited his work within group shows in Athens and all over Greece. More recently, he has participated in the International Mural Exhibition 2010 in China as well as exhibitions in Copenhagen, Denmark and Vienna, Austria.
Visit the artist webpage at www.woozy.gr