event

PV for Other

16.Mar.07
6-9 pm

Aicon Gallery
Other
8 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BU
447884 246838
farah@aicongallery.com
Tube Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Mayfair / Cork Street

The show marks the UK debut for artist Riyas Komu, whose work has been exhibited internationally and was recently selected by Robert Storr for the 2007 Venice Biennale exhibition. Painter, installation artist and cultural commentator, Komu is influenced by the politics of gender and religion in his native India and his work has been featured in recent issues of Artforum, Art India and other publications.

Entitled Other, the opening exhibition also features artist Peter Drake (New York) who has collaborated with Komu on previous projects and is best known for his surreal paintings of suburban America. Peter Drake¹s work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum and LA MoCA, amongst others.

The two artists conceived this exhibition around their respective cultural habitats and comment via universal themes on the reactions of opposing sides to political wars. The artists chose to juxtapose their work in this show, seeing London as the geographical mid-point between their two countries.