Strychnin Gallery Berlin - Labyrinth
Strychnin Gallery Berlin’s latest show features new works by Canadian artist Richard Kirk and Belgian artist Raf Veulemans.
Are you sometimes amazed at the unbelievable things your subconscious shows you in your sleep? Have you ever wondered where these incredible images and stories that you see in your dreams come from when you are wandering through the surreal labyrinth of your imagination to far-away places of buried anxieties and hidden desires?
Canadian artist and illustrator Richard Kirk has always been fascinated by these vivid fragments of our subconscious existence. His amazing book illustrations for the likes of Clive Barker and others seem to be washed ashore straight from his dreams. They have made him famous throughout Canada and the United States with their incredibly filigree details and fantastic settings. Kirk’s illustration of American rock band’s KORN 2007 album has been widely noted and further increased his fame. Strychnin is proud to once more feature his illustrations in Germany, offering a wide international audience the chance to get to know Kirk’s incredible work and style.
Belgian artist Raf Veulemans is also fascinated by the idea of the labyrinth; however, his fascination is focused on the myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinthine structures of ancient Egyptian pyramids: the labyrinth seen as a journey determining over life and death, or separating the dead from the living with uncertain outcome. Apart from his graphic education, Veulemans has also learnt the skills of a taxidermist and prepares all animals used in his works himself. All of them died from natural causes and no animals are hurt for Veuleman’s work.
The opening night also features music by sounddesigner Joerg Huettner, who is a member of world-famous film score writer Hans Zimmer’s team in Los Angeles. Zimmer’s Oscar-winning musical scores to blockbusters such as “The Lion King,” “Gladiator,” “Batman Begins,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Ring 2” or “Cat Woman” have long become the soundtracks to our dreams. Huettner, a huge a fan of Kirk and Veuleman’s work, created a special soundtrack to the images of Labyrinth that will have its world premiere on March 14th.
Opening night: March 14th, 7:00 p.m. Show runs until: April 7th 2008 - Strychnin Gallery Berlin - Boxhagenerstr. 36 - 10245 Berlin
Open: Thu - Sun from 1 – 6 p.m. and by appointment - http://www.strychnin.com
