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“Tai Shani vs Kristian Hornsleth” in London |
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- Relentless and as unforgiving as the Pop Idol series, the VERSUS exhibition continues at the Centre of Attention with the opening of its second instalment: Tai Shani vs Kristian Hornsleth. Both artists came to art from a very different background: fashion and business; and for both, this results in a controversial approach which mixes openness with cynicism and ambiguity. Kristian Hornsleth studied business and art in Copenhagen where he works and lives. He has shown extensively across Europe and has a solo show next month at the Baumgartner Gallery, New York. "Selected posters, large photocopies and other readymade materials are mounted on the canvas as contextual background. Most of the work has been brutally cut and heavily scratched with sharp objects. The concept was from the beginning to combine an extreme subjective Rorschackian drive for painting itself with a conceptual idea to adapt an over visible brand identity. The paintings are mostly heavy expressionistic overkillish as well as sensational and statement oriented. With time this style has proven itself to have a market to "well-off, young, self-confident business types who normally think that art is fucking boring". Some buyers and gallerists complained a little about the branding in the form of a huge Hornsleth signature which covered up to a third of the painting, but this proved not to be a problem of the consumer interest." Tai Shani is a young artist who studied fashion design and fashion photography in New York and Tel Aviv where she has worked for major style magazines. She exhibited at the Haifa Museum, at the Haus am Lützowplatz and at Novalog, Berlin. In 2001, she had a solo show: "Axl Rose you rock my world" at the Tal Esther Gallery, Tel-Aviv. She recently moved to London. Tai Shani's videos, photographs and installations reflect the construction of gender. They especially examine how a young body becomes sexed. They do not only recreate the female body from the viewpoint of "to-be-looked-at", but they also exemplify the deformation of body and identity resulting from this perspective. They underline the power fashion has in defining youth, beauty.
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