Alone Together - Ingrid Simons and STiNK! (Stephen Hiam)

Alone Together

opening reception: Friday evening the 25 March 6:00 – 9:00 pm

exhibition: 26 March – 23 April 2011

Two Window Project is proud to present the exhibition, ‘Alone Together’ featuring the works of two artists, Ingrid Simons of the Netherlands and STiNK! (Stephen Hiam) who is originally from the UK.

The common link for pairing these two artists for this exhibition comes from the source of their imagery; they both manifest them from the technologies of photography and video. It is these medias that inspire the two artists to paint their unique interpretations and create their own worlds on the canvas.

For this exhibition, Ingrid’s new paintings are artist’s interpretations of her own en plein air photos from which are then executed in the studio in oil with a contemporary twist of a minimalist palette. The brush strokes and textures that she employs must be seen in person to fully appreciate the depth of these works, a true contemporary version of classic impressionism. Her dreamy and somewhat ominous landscape paintings in black and white seem to float before the viewer. She explains, “I am searching for an atmosphere of “Unheimlichkeit”, stillness and decay. Frozen scenes, like in a film-still, unrelated to time and within that given their dualism, is what fascinates me. The use of overexposure, through which areas that are painted as a flat surface of color, but in the context of the painting also reveal something figurative and three dimensional, are also such a dualism. The field of tension fascinates me.”

Ingrid’s works have been exhibited in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and the USA as well as in museums and numerous private collections. This will be her first exhibition in Berlin.

STiNK! (Stephen Hiam) is highly skilled in the realm of video arts with a focus on special effects for which among other praises, has won him a coveted MTV video award. It is from this arena that he brings his highly charged work to the gallery, using his artistic moniker of ‘STiNK!’, to tell his stories in the medium of paint rather than on film.

As in each of his past series he builds from classic art concepts, references to the works of Muybridge and Man Ray for his previous group of paintings titled The Fallen from 2010. Now in his latest series, he depicts the story of a modern creation and evolution with the four dominant and reoccurring ideas of love, hate, envy & greed, as they are played out to us constantly by the news media, in print, on television and online. The stories of trysts, corporate scandals, dictators, wars, aggression and revolution all abound. These chronicles will be unfurled like a storyboard of the fast changing world that surrounds us at every turn. Presented in multi dimensional surfaces that are reminiscent of the flowing papyrus scrolls of a time long past, STiNK!’s newest paintings ablaze with color depict their own version of this fast paced current history. This will be his second featured artist exhibition at the gallery.

For additional information or preview please email to: twowindowproject@yahoo.de

Alone Together

Ingrid Simons and STiNK! (Stephen Hiam)

opening reception: Friday evening 25 March from 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Two Window Project

Torstrasse 154, D -10115 Berlin

www.twowindowproject.com