May 25, 2008
ANTON UNAI - THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE BOURGEOISIE
Opening: THURSDAY, May 29th 2008, 7 PM
Circleculture Gallery is pleased to present The Disenchantment of the
Bourgeoisie, a solo exhibition by Berlin urban art / street art scene’s enfant
terrible Anton Unai, whose brand new large-scale installations combine painting, photography, collage and impromptu performance to create
unapologetically aggressive, yet sincerely romantic, emotional environments.
Exhitbition: May 30th until JULY 10TH 2008, Tuesday – Saturday, 2pm until
6pm
Circleculture Gallery
Gipsstrasse 11
10119 Berlin Mitte
www.circleculture-gallery.com
The Disenchantment of the Bourgeoisie will include both a site-specific
installation and selected works from Unai’s most recent action, in which a former
tattoo parlor was transformed into a labyrinth of anarchic imagery, culminating
after two weeks of continuous production with an event that was part social
sculpture, part happening, part bacchanal.
Using materials that reflect the urban landscape, ordinary detritus like rusty sheet
metal or yesterday’s newspaper, Unai’s work resurrects and reinvents the
discarded relics of the modern masses. His art is at once rough and delicate,
exposing sentimental and vulnerable humanity through violent gestures,
provocative irony and messy compositions that defy traditional aesthetic
boundaries. Meta-narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography
and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted
installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from
Basquiat’s urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin’s abstract paintings as sculptural
objects to Jonathan Meese’s theatrical symbolism.
Anton Unai was born in 1974 in London and lived in several European countries
before moving to Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally and was
recently included in the group exhibition The Alternative Philosophy at the
Leonard Street Gallery in London. The Disenchantment of the Bourgeoisie is his
second exhibition with Circleculture Gallery. For more information please contact
the gallery.
www.circleculture-gallery.com
Exhitbition: May 30th until JULY 10TH 2008, Tuesday – Saturday, 2pm until
6pm
Circleculture Gallery
Gipsstrasse 11
10119 Berlin Mitte
www.circleculture-gallery.com
berlin@circleculture-gallery.com
Press contact:
Friederike Milbradt
Email: friederike.milbradt@circleculture.com
Phone: 0049 (0)30 27 58 17 80