The Breeder, Athens, 08.09.13 - 26.10.13
BLIND ADAM
Preview: Sunday 8 September 2013, 12-5pm
Opening: Sunday 8 September 2013, 5-10pm
Exhibition Dates: 8 September - 26 October 2013
Opening hours during ReMap KM: Monday-Friday 5.30-9pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-9pm
Blind Adam, Melting Safety, 2012, hand knotted acrylic wool yarn, 300x300x300 cm, Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco
The Breeder is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Blind Adam, as
part of the fourth edition of Remap KM. Using black wool yarn Blind Adam
creates a hand knotted universe of thread. A method that begun
mechanically in 2007, has now evolved into a coherent art practice,
which incorporates wall based works, sculptures and installations.
Blind Adam has retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition that
constricts the visual field resulting in visual impairment. His canvas
works, presented on the gallery’s ground floor resemble the Braille
system. They track the process of articulating a personal language, the
crystallization of thought, like a primitive manuscript, each black knot
represents a letter or a word in an abstract flow of sentences upon the
white background.
“Melting Safety” a monumental sculpture is hanging in the center of the
space. Part safety net, part floating demon the long threads of knotted
yarn that constitute the work come together in an imposing black mass.
Each knot is at an equal distance from the other, that is dictated by
the size of the artist’s hands when they tie them. A symmetry that
offers rhythm and sequence to the structure.
The gallery’s basement floor is transformed into an ancient temple
consisting of twenty-four Doric columns. Each one of them an ethereal
elegant structure of black yarn, like monuments of transcendental
meditation or rather the ghostly exoskeletons of columns, they highlight
the absence of volume. They are the impressions of columns, drawn from
the artist’s memory. Against the gallery’s white walls, the sculptures
resemble drawings with black pen on paper that have come to life to
claim a three-dimensional existence.
Blind Adam (1971, Athens) is based in Athens, Greece. Blind Adam has
presented his work in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Athena (2013),
Athens and at Suzy Tros Project Space, Athens (2012). Group exhibitions
include “Hell As Pavillion” curated by Nadia Argyropoulou at Palais de
Tokyo in Paris (2013), The Art of This Century at the Alex Mylona Museum
in Athens (2011), at ASVOFF (A Shaded View On Fashion Film) festival,
Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2011), at Chagallesque, Hydra School Projects
in Hydra (2010).
For more information and images contact: gallery@thebreedersystem.com
The Breeder
Iasonos 45, 10436, Athens, Greece
T/F: +30 210 3317527
gallery@thebreedersystem.com
www.thebreedersystem.com
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