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11th dec 2014
Come down this Thursday
This Thursday at The Wayward Gallery Jethro Haynes 'FLOTSAM AND JETSAM'
Saskia Pomeroy 'This Time'
Tomorrow night MAJOR show from Saskia Pomeroy 'This Time' Be Deya!
Tonight at Wayward Gallery "For Real" R.I.P In memory of George Chararas
WATCH THE VIDEO PROMO FOR JOHN DE MEIJER FAKE SMILE
https://vimeo.com/42048778
TONIGHT AT THE WAYWARD GALLERY JOHN DE MEIJER "FAKE SMILE"
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Thursday 17th May 6-10pm
Video from Kingpin Skateboarding 100th Issue Party
https://vimeo.com/41842864
The video from Jethro Haynes show 'Hoard'
Video for the John de Meijer show. Enter the Wayward.
This Thursday Kind Regards presents John de Meijer 'Fake Smile'. The Dutch based artist will show never seen before paintings exploring identity in the modern world through pop culture imagery.
Kind Regards is proud to present the upcoming exhibition “Fake Smile” which will showcase a new series of works by Amsterdam based artist John de Meijer. With his previous work de Meijer often referenced western heroism, comics and blockbuster movies. The Last two series were based on the notion of balance between what is morally accepted within todays western society and what we’ve been conditioned to believe is good and bad. Playing with these notions de Meijer creates visu...al narratives that do not necessarily provide the viewer with a straightforward answer, but rather create more confusion. By doing so de Meijer provokes a gut feeling of slight mistrust and flirts with a nihilistic approach as part of the ongoing debate that he as an artist has with the surroundings he lives in.
The series “Fake Smile” is based upon this same debate. Starting from portrait photography that de Meijer took of himself wearing a variety of masks and disguises he plays with the omnipresent topic of identity in a digital age. The portraits could be interpreted as avatars used in social media, the new digital world were people only tend to show a certain part of themselves and by doing so create their own new kind of personality. Questions of how to interpret love, physical contact, attraction, violence and human interaction are the core of this new series of work.
The exhibition is a collaborative project between The Wayward Gallery, based in London and Kind Regards, based in Amsterdam. The collaboration feels as a logical step within the growth process of Kind Regards. In the past we focused on our Amsterdam audience to provide them with a good and strong selection of artists. During this process we crossed paths with The Wayward Gallery and instantly realised there were many complementary aspects between the two organisations.
The Wayward Gallery was launched as an independent gallery space in 2010. They felt it was necessary to provide an affordable space to talented artists who otherwise did not have the chance to show their work to the public due to the large expense of many other galleries. Coming from a skateboarding background they knew a large number of artists and photographers who, given the right opportunity, would be extremely well received. They have maintained this ethos throughout. Since its inception The Wayward Gallery has gone from strength to strength and is now a full time gallery that consistently exhibits an eclectic array of fresh new work from an international base of artists.
We are very pleased to reach out to a new audience and to collaborate with a gallery that has so much in common with Kind Regards.
We would like to welcome you to the opening of the exhibition “Fake Smile” on May 17 2012 from 6 till 10. After the opening the exhibition can be visited till may 19 from 1 till 5.
The Wayward Gallery 47 Mowlem Street London E2 9HE
contact@kindregards.nl info@thewaywardgallery.com
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